Darko’s Legendary Rant | Raptors Show Clips

Darko’s Legendary Rant | Raptors Show Clips

We can say what we want let’s hear about what Darko said about Ben Taylor and his sufficient crew last night thank you Doug that’s that’s that’s outrageous what happened tonight this is completely BS this is shame shame for the referees shame for the league to allow this 23

Free throws for them and we get two free throws in in a fourth quarter like how to play the game I I understand uh respect for all stars and all that but we have start players on our team as well how’s possible that Scotty Barnes who is Allstar caliber player in this

League he goes every single time to the rim with force and trying to get get to to the rim without flopping and and not trying to get foul calls he gets two uh free throws for a whole game how’s that possible how you going to explain that

That to me they had to win tonight if that’s if that’s the case just let us know so we don’t show up for the game just give them a win but that that was not fair tonight and this is not happening first time for us Scotty Barnes is going to be all star

He’s going to be the face of this league and what what’s happening over here during whole season I’ve been holding it back it’s a complete crap wow uh first off shout outs to Darko because this rant really resonated with me on a deeply cultural level because well my parents got really upset

And English was her second language grammar just went out the window and it just gained and gained in intensity so I part of me up like mortally like a little bit shook after hearing that but I mean to that point happy dark went there I’m thankful if he’s heard our

Early season criticisms of him he’s taken it in stride because I don’t want to face that version of Darko no here’s the thing darko’s been super nice and whatever but you know he’s got that fire and I think that that’s what that showed to me obviously this is something where

You know you you definitely have the organization’s backing when you come out like this because you’re going to catch a fine and Mar’s going to get some kind of fine he’ll get 25k Oka got and Taylor Jenkins both got 25k earlier in the year that’s kind of the precedent for your

First one um I I think almost certainly he’s going to especially if there is and I don’t know if there were you know the feds were at the game or whatever but he continued that rant in a more profane way after the cameras went off oh yeah

Um per multiple reporters who were in the room and if anyone’s audio caught that or or the league caught wind of that um that is also probably going to be a part of that so I think he gets a 25k here but yeah people have his back

And and by the way we don’t need to crowdfund this uh the organization will take care of this it’s not going to come out of dark pod he’ll make way more money than than us um look in seriousness I thought you know rant aside that that’s cool I think that that

Shows a good thing a good level of getting your players back I think that you know certainly on Twitter it seemed to resonate with the fan base and their uh feelings about this and look last night was not just the Raptor thing like

I had do you know how hard it is to make a 70 Sixers fan empathetic to another team I a friend who is a 76ers writer messaging me being like this is the worst jobbing I’ve ever seen um even the lake even the Lakers broadcast on the Emanuel quickly flagrant was like what

The heck man like what happened to the game I love so it’s not just that putting the actual por calls aside and the free throw disparity aside I came away from last night thinking that Darko handled this all EXT well he has been pretty calm on the sidelines kept a cool

Demeanor last night if that’s if that game unravels and it’s a 15o game or something like that absolutely I could see him getting ACH maybe even getting tossed to make to make the statement but he towed that line and there are a couple Clips where at timeouts or after

Calls he’s P Taylor’s getting the glare oh yeah he’s getting a a real we saw that dark old glare yesterday man my goodness screen caps around the world right now close game you don’t want to give away a point on a technical foul you don’t want to remove yourself from

The Sidelines in a close game I thought he did a good job um you know Towing that line you know expressing the frustration but but not overstepping and you know this is this is only going to affirm this to locker room because Darko had their backs after the game I think a

Very difficult thing especially as a rookie head coach especially when you haven’t gone through that many situations like this as a team there’re like there’s a frustration there Scotty is frustrated the guys on the bench are frustrated darko’s frustrated that did not affect their play at all they didn’t start whining

Dramatically they they didn’t start foul baiting they didn’t make emotional mistakes on the other end they stuck to it and played through it and we just like look okay we’re playing in ankle weights but we’re going to do this and we’re going to try to pull that out and

I thought so the combination of Darko being able to keep his cool on the sideline and stay on stay on the court the players staying very very composed through that and then Darko having their back after the game I think is only going to feed into that where there can

Be this level of trust now that like hey let’s play through it there’s nothing we can do about it in the moment and I’ll have your back afterward I I think that that is that could be a good galvanizing moment for Darko and the core of this

Team I I thought he handled it extremely well through the fourth quarter and through the end of the game it was really impressive to me that Darko in a moment where he knew he’s like I’m about to go viral you know was one of those things and in that moment he also added

In Scotty bars as an All-Star twice twice Scotty Barnes it it’s it’s uh it was a great job by dark honestly and and yeah I totally agree with you you don’t want to cost your team any more points you don’t want to give them another reason to call

Technical fouls and things like that yeah did you um last thing on this did you did you have a favorite call favorite call Miss call um no I mean the quickly one is the one that probably I have more of an issue with letter of the

Law versus Spirit of the law I know why they want to legislate out guys being a little careless with their elbows or whatever but was he it’s a basetball and like the explanation that like well he was moving too fast I like yeah he’s very fast and trying to score I don’t

Like by the way the camera panned over and there was an official that went to go talk quickly afterwards it wasn’t Ben Taylor because you know he doesn’t talk to Ben tayl was terrible tonight Ben Taylor doesn’t talk to players one was one of the other two guys and the

Official was going over and demonstrating to quickly and the official had his elbows out like off to the side like at a huge angle and that’s not what happened it’s not like quickly like you know did a huge clear out what I described postgame was like they were

Acting like it was meta World Peace versus James Harden from back in the day uh um no like whatever it’s it’s you know that was called a flagrant but when pascow gets undercut midair yeah uh on on a play that was not on the ball that wasn’t a flagrant call that a transition

One was it to toring prince toring prince undercut him um there there’s just a number of these decisions even Thad young got really upset and honestly Thad young played as hard out yesterday we’re going to get to that in just a second but like there was a play where

Scotty threw a great pass to th young rolling to the basket and th Young knows you I’m old I’m watched I’m not going to dunk this ball I’m going to get this shot up as quickly as possible toan Prince is beat on the play puts his elbow into Thad Young’s back on behind

Him and in front of him Oar comes over late with the rotation undercuts him and then trips him so that that is now falling over help I’m falling over I can’t get up sorry that uh and then the other way ad gets an an1 in transition and you could tell that Thad was

Complaining about that call for the next three possessions while playing solid basketball but it’s just like instances like that that just screwed you over and over and over again the Scotty Barnes game tying three which was ruled out by the RJ moving screen when ad moved one

Feet and just like somehow his whole body exploded and that’s it’s a tough one because like by letter it’s probably a moving screen but also Anthony Davis flopped like you like it’s every marginal contact for the Lakers foul but every sort of physical body movement for

The Raptors Simmons had the back of the Raptors yes they’re like hey sometimes 29 calls in a row don’t go your way um it’s and then the the only one like I meant to look this up in the rule book and get see the exact language I forgot

So I’m sorry but the the Jared Vanderbilt this isn’t goal tending for touching the rim on a shot but it’s a technical fou for hanging on the rim I assume their interpretation was like like similar to pass interference in football like that bucket didn’t have a

Chance of going in so it’s not goal tending I meant to look it up but I’ll look it up at the break or whatever but that’s just a weird one like yo you were hanging on the rim it’s not gold tending but here’s a tech I don’t there were

There were a few interesting ones Christian Woods just walking up to officials screaming in their face you’re letting Christian Wood scream in your face give him a d’angel Russell running over and clapping at see the LeBron D’Angelo Russell was it Dennis he did that too or was it RJ like is getting

Posted up and he clapped at him he was going off with both yeah um did you see LeBron’s quote about Christian Wood after the game by the way what did he say about Christian Wood he said I’m paraphrasing here but he was like yeah there’s nothing that guy cares about but

Getting a bucket and Christian Wood took it as like a compliment that like I’m a bucket get I don’t think that’s how LeBron meant it I think LeBron meant it like yeah that guy does not care about passing or defense um I tweeted last night like there’s a reason that guy was

The most dominant player in the g- league for four years before he really got an NBA chance because you know how many how many G League guys are you asking to get a bucket uh Christian Wood is a bucket in the Toronto sense of the word but anyway um you want to actually

Talk about the game it’s actually you know what last thing a super last thing um Evan Turner come on man first of all people to jump in Evan Turner just randomly jumps in um and he was commenting on a video of darko’s rant and his his words were you got to let

Your assistant coaches do the rant when you quote have an accent like really and I’m happy Dennis jumped in and this shame yeah no I’m happy Dennis jumped in because like on top of all this like not only are we’re getting screwed but this random guy just comes in with the xenophobic comment

Like what are we doing it is not funny at all no it’s it’s not funny it’s not clever it doesn’t like make logical sense like yeah like okay like are are you going to bust out a Bard at impression next in 2024 what are we doing that like people like a basketball

Is incredibly International like yeah guys people are going to have accents English is not everyone’s first language you know what H Americans man you guys you guys really only speak one language and uh it shows

Will Lou and Blake Murphy react to Darko Rajakovic’s electric rant after the Raptors’ loss to the Lakers last night.

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