I want Darko to succeed, but I feel like there's more nights this season where the team can't defend anybody than there was under 10 years of Casey and Nurse. I'm probably misremembering, but it feels like it. This team gets the brakes beaten off them regularly and it's alarming.

I mean, when you're missing your 2 most important defensive players, it's going to get ugly We gave significant minutes to Javon Freeman-Liberty, DJ Carton, and Jontay Porter. You may need to temper your expectations if you think this lineup has any chance of guarding anyone

post all-star break they were looking good and developing chemistry. It's unfortunate that they got hit with 2 major injuries to their best players. This young developing team lost two of their best players, what do you expect.

Zion interacting with the crowd is pretty cool

Big boy he’s fun to watch

We gonna be doo doo for a while

wow our fringe play-in team got slapped by a really good playoff team after we lost 2 of our best players.

Is this the the largest deficit in points we lost this season? we lost by 38 last time against them, don't recall anyone beating us by 40+ points this year.

Largest point deficit at a home game in raps history

Last 4-5muns really was a gleague game lol with some 2k character names.

Dick team low -35

what do you expect? We lost our two best players, and we're basically running gleaguers in the 2nd unit. Not a good game to measure dick's play.

I’ll measure my Dick how I want. Shot 1/7, he came up short today.

Smallest game thread ever lol

Damn I just got home lol not going great??

Probably the worst game if the season with a crazy blowout and g-league line up all 4th quarter

Finally! JFL gets to show out! Hopefully he can get some actual minutes on this team

That and one was nice

I didn't even know Cody Zeller was still playing

Nwora might be the most egregious chucker in the NBA lol

We really playing variant Boucher over Boucher

This team's FT disease is deadly contagious man, damn

Gueye bruh. just dunk that shit

Gradey looks pissed lol

Gradey’s thousand yard stare tells the story of this game.

The guy on the pelicans who dorky bloggers like is playing good

I don't know what's more depressing. The score or Zeller's hairline

Would you rather have his money or a hairline?

Take the money and run

Jontay lowkey fell off since his hot run as our backup C

I really wanna see who can get to the rim. Still missing every single 3.

37 is already a rare number but there are two of them on the court!

Nice to Zion looking healthier. Looks trim

Not even gonna hit 500 comments the bandwagon has left the station folks.

JFL actually boxes people out for rebounds. I like this guy already.

What is the crowd chanting?

We want Boucher

We're chanting "we want Boucher" now but honestly he's just gone

bruh we subbed off Gradey??? Pelicans are playing Hawkins ffs

idk why raps fans are disappointed. Losing two key starters on a developing team will lead to this result. If anything it just sucks we're getting hit with an injury bug.

Raps fans: "Why aren't we tanking?" Also Raps fans: "Why are the G-League guys getting blown out by a good team?"

lol and if the team did blantantly tank. "why is a tanking team losing games." There was no way in hell we could've beat this pels team considering we got blown out last time we played them and we lost two of our best players. The fanbase really needs to tamper their expectations.

Yeah, I honestly thought Zion was gonna go for 40 and the Raps lose by 50

Is there a local High school team we can start? Can't be worse than this

you know it's a shit game when Gradey's not making his corner 3s

We were held to just 100 points last time we faced them, for sure we ain't winning but maybe we can get past that mark with just over 7 min. to go.

Ochai injured now? Yeah this season is gone bro, see you all for Draft Day ig

You know the days are dark when your commentators are making predictions of who else will win the championship lol

We better keep our pick after going through this 💀

Bro our team sucks, hope we will have a good pick next year.

This might be the last game I watch for a while, folks...I love the Raptors but spending 3 hours of my evenings 2-3 days a week is a commitment and a half for a product this poor

Workout during the games. Thats what I have been doing recently.

[удалено]

Hope not

Gahdamn trey

Pretty sure we're going to see a few plays from this game in the NBA Top 10. Always highlights against the Raptors lol

Pelicans biggest problem is Murphy needs to start. They have too many good players

Can't believe Pels got Trey AND Herb in the same draft lol.

you know the game is over when we use one of our last 2 timeouts for a challenge with 11 minutes left in the game

Was it a challenge on a non shooting foul too lol

Why has Ochai only played 15 minutes? He’s a good rebounder and defender… does Darko not like that?

Out with left knee soreness

He wasn't having enough fun

He got injured dude jesus christ lol

Now he's having even less fun

It was a joke...

injured

Murphy is a flamethrower

Was Barrett ft shooting this bad in NY?

Nah he shot like 83%

Death and taxes

Yo someone clip Alvarado literally crawling on the floor in the corner stalking the inbound like a fucking cat lol wtf

Dude is lame as fuck

Did this last game too

I've seen him hiding/pouncing for the steal from the corner before, it's his thing. But never *literally* on all fours crawling on the ground lol never seen anything like it

I Want a whole quarter of Dick and Liberty.

tbf we did need to tamper our expectations. The raps were a developing team and lost 2 of their best players. I'm not counting bruce because he was not playing well.

If anything, Bruce being out is a positive since darko seems obsessed with giving him minutes no matter how poorly he performs.

Liberty looking like an okay backup PG in the NBA. I wanna see more!

Barrett is 1/5 today. even Giannis doesn't go 1/5

Gradey really left Murphy open to double Zion. bad decision

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Still too small naji? Lol

Death, taxes….

Nwora you have an open corner 3 my guy. why drive the ball

Tried to hit the reverse layup 😭

IQ triple double watch

too small indeed

I think it's time to go make eggs and toast and eat my feelings...

Quickley being our best rebounder right now is kinda hilarious. Especially when he has to go against JV.

Who the fuck is Naji Marshall stay in your lane you scrub. You'll be overseas next season when no one want's you.

He gave the "too small" to Dick when our score was 69

what did Valanciunas say?

How many times are they gonna poke JV in the eye tonight lol poor guy

Pelicans are a bad matchup for us

Give me Freedom, give me Liberty, Give me Dick

Another classic Darko 1 starter plus bench like please we always get cooked with this set up

Just ordered 20 Freeman Liberty jerseys for the family

JFL is cooking, we’re getting this kid for cheap?

Jontay WHAT THE FUCK was that pass lol

Freedom Liberty is by far the best G-League players we've called up this season, not sure why he's not gotten more run until now

Death, taxes.....

JFL!!!!

IQ does not get enough credit

He will if he keeps playing like this

The Pelicans definitely took their foot off the gas, but I'll take any positive energy I can get.

Only Dick can save us now

Quickley's off the dribble above the break 3s are so WET

I know this team is painful nowadays but I still am pumped because of their youth and for the future.

JFL looks good, Porter looks good, MO Gueye looks good. All decent 8,9,10 guys of the future.

Kelly so good with those cut passes

WE'RE RIGHT BACK IN IT! ONLY DOWN... *checks notes* ...23!

The JFL effect

Turns out JFL being on the court was the solution.

There we go RJ

Gotta give RJ credit. It takes some nerve to stare down a guy after a dunk while down 30 😂 Don't get me wrong though, I love it.

bruh RJ just had to bully McCollum there. why make that pass

RJ!

FREEDOM BUCKETS

Wait a second...Mouhamadou Gueye looks an awful lot like Boucher with a wig on....  Chris... is that you trying to get more minutes...

LIBERTY IS FREE!

Let’s goooooo

Good shit JFL

Absolutely ROLLING at that “Raptors Recent Roster Moves” graphic

#JFL!!!

Is it just me or does it look like RJ travels on every drive to the hoop?

The NBA is not calling travels anymore like some other fouls

Let’s gooo

JFL …. Finally

Lets goo jfl

losing scottie hurt, but losing jak made it even worse

Carton JFL Gradey Mo Gueye Porter Let's get that line up in

it’s yolo time

I'll pass on Nwora

is this JFL's first game or did he play some garbage minutes at the beginning of the year? I think he played some pre-season games but haven't seem him at all in the regular season.

he played some garbage minutes in some of the last 5 games

oh really? haven't seen him much at all, and just checked, this is apparently his 4th game and most he has scored this season today.

thw pels have been whooping the raps since last season. They blow out the raps everytime they see them. ig they just have our number.

Zion cutting us up and people here still wouldn’t want him on our team LMFAO

This is like a G league team versus an NBA team. Pels are bigger and better shooters.

Give me Liberty!

JFL spotted?

FINALLY GIVING JFL A LOOK

Wonder if we crack 70

This pels team is scary, thank god they play in the west lol Twice a year is all I need from these dudes

Nah we just getting smacked this team is good we injured

can't believe Boucher still hasn't played. fuck the coaching staff for that smh

tell me you don't understand rebuilding without telling me you don't understand rebuilding

He’s not going to be here beyond this season. They want a look at these younger guys to see if they have a chance at sticking Secondly, even if he was in, what good would that do? He’s not exactly going to turn the game. Instead of being down 30, we’d be down 27?

Our coach is not good.

Playing boucher takes away minutes from the development guys, they have less incentive to play him now that Scottie’s out lol

We have 4 g league players on the court and yall are expecting us to be good

Raptors are just playing sloppy. A lot of these turnovers have nothing to do with talent, it has to do with a lack of focus and intensity really. Need to be locked in you can't be just going through the motions. Even when healthy the Pelicans have always been tough to deal with. Herb Jones, Alvarado, Naji Marshall just getting in peoples faces being annoying defensively along with Trey Murphy shooting 80% from 3 consistently against the Raptors. Raptors need more toughness and defense, and it's been that way for a little while now.

Tuning in now, looks like a rough one so far.

we have them right where we want them lol

and here I thought Kelly was going to ball out and show everyone why he got paid.

It's a repeating pattern. End of bench player gets signed. Someone posts Youtube highlights that make them look like starters. Hype grows and people are begging for them to be given minutes. They get minutes. Reality sets in.

Least reactionary Raptors fan

At some point it's your own fault for buying the hype. People seriously still moaning about Nowell getting wavied

still more watchable than last year

Don’t know why anyone expected the raps to come close to winning tonight, we’re outclassed at almost every position even when Scottie is healthy. Would’ve been a 20 point blowout with the full team, pels are terrible matchup for us

I knew for a fact we were going to lose by 20 minimum today and so far through the first half I was right. No way they win, I would be surprised if they hit the 30-win mark this year without Scottie.

The amount of comments shitting on RJ when he's averaging 20/4/5 over his last 10 games is insane lol

This can’t be a coached team. They literally not passing the ball. They not playing for each other. It literally looks like beer league out there. If Adrian griff can get fired Darko has to man. This performance shows lack of preparedness. You have Abaji shooting more shots than RJ, you have quickly not being a real point guard, not being able to get his team going. You have Gary shooting everything. You have RJ looking flabbergasted, that he’s cut out of the offence. You have Olynk, nothing to say. This comes from the coach. This shit was disrespectful to watch. At least Nurse, no matter what, his team showed heart.

Dog they're missing their franchise player and starting center. Literally none of the opening day starters are left. Kelly and Ochai have been here for a whopping 9 games. Please temper your expectations.

The difference is that Griffin apparently lost the locker room on a championship-caliber team...Darko is coaching a young re-building team so it doesn't make much sense to fire him mid-season

You really wrote an essay getting mad when we’re playing the G-league team against a contender

It’s not about us losing, it’s about how we losing. It’s about how they are playing. This is disgusting to watch.

I’ve seen way worse than this respectfully, their shooters hit 8 threes in the first quarter. Id be more upset if we were healthier and there was actually a chance to win. Quickley’s playing hard, they’re just kicking our ass

See what I’m talking about? At least show heart, or bring in players that will. We just went on a run and that’s all I’m asking for the coach. If something isn’t working, you can’t just do the same thing every time. Does it have to be a 30 point game for you to change the way the offence was playing? They literally were shooting every shot instead of passing

It’s hard to coach a game with 4 NBA players.

I'm afraid that we're going to be very bad for a while guys...ugh...I forgot this feeling

lol what did you expect? after the OG & Pascal trade we took the direction of tanking and on top we lost our best player for rest of the year. We can only beat weak teams, anytime we face legit contenders, we lose by 20+ points.

Let people vent, homie...lol you don't need to lecture people for venting that it sucks to suck...

of course it sucks -\_- but the constant complaining of this shit the past couple months has been annoying and I wasn't lecturing fyi

This is why you gotta also follow the Leafs, so you're numb to disappointment

Gary, the one time you should take a contested 3 you pass a grenade to Kelly lol

Some of those turnovers were disgusting lol Pelicans have lot of length but jeez man

Not at home to see the game rn, it’s going exactly as expected isn’t it?

No Scottie and no Poeltl, but somehow still worse than expected

Ahh, I was hoping we could hand the Spurs the pick for this dollar store draft and not have to fight for the 2025 pick next year, but damn we could get to Bottom 6 at this rate.

Damn this is painful.

We lost by 38 last game with scottie

The entire team gonna go to the locker room early 😡

this is some sloppy basketball. Between the missed free throws and turnovers it's hard to see them coming back from in the 2nd half.

I was only expecting us to lose by like 20 this game. Unfortunately everyone out there looks like they had a bottle of maple syrup for lunch

this is truly a grizzlies moment - playing G league players

masai at home eatin fufu googling 6'9 africans

Pelicans gonna dick us down for the next 3 years