Pascal Siakam may have put forth his worst effort of the postseason on Friday night, scoring eight points on 4-of-9 shooting before fouling out in 26 minutes, on the same day where he was announced…
Kawhi Leonard is inevitable and the Old Raptors…
It’s rare to watch something unfold in real time and declare it to be the “greatest” anything. There’s too much time and too many possibilities to definitively call any one moment the height of achievement.…
Raptors need to trust their game after bad…
For all the intricacies that fold into any one play of any one game, basketball can boil down to the simplest of conclusions -- you’ve got to hit your shots. The Raptors had another atrocious…
Kawhi Leonard looks human but Raptors reach their…
In our look at Game 3 of the series between the Sixers and Raptors, we discussed what Toronto needed to change in order to get back on track following a shellacking in Philadelphia. Ultimately, the…
Raptors push the right buttons in Game 4
The Raptors were left searching for answers after an embarrassing effort in Game 3. Beyond Kawhi Leonard’s constant brilliance, the team came up short in multiple facets and wasted another sterling effort from its superstar.…
Now in the deep end, Raptors need decisiveness
One of the main critiques of Dwane Casey as a head coach was his playoff stubbornness. He was too slow to adapt; that the adjustments that eventually came were so haphazard that the Raptors were…
Beyond shooting slump, Danny Green has more to…
Game 2 was an arduous one. It was the kind of game that the Raptors have yet to be involved in this postseason, and the sort that the Sixers would love to play given their…
Marc Gasol is the difference & Game 1…
The big story from Game 1 is obviously Kawhi Leonard. The second story from Game 1 is Pascal Siakam. The most important story from Game 1 might just be a guy who had eight points,…
Why Kawhi Leonard and the new-look Raptors suddenly…
Their most successful regular season in franchise history was marked most by the Toronto Raptors living up to Masai Ujiri's pointed offseason edict of overhauling an offense that always failed them come spring. Stressing pace,…