Giannis DOMINATES Raptors Home Opener – What Went Wrong
Giannis Antetokounmpo dominated the Raptors defense. Samson Folk vlogged his experience at the home opener and brought on guest Es Baraheni from the Athletic’s NBA Daily to talk about their experience at the game.
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Clean Up Time! Some losses are good losses cause you can learn. I believe they’ll learn they won’t be having the same issues a couple of months from now. CMB is going to make a big time difference. He’s a key player and it’ll be clear very quickly.
Watching Quickley play today hurt. A lot of bad decisions came from him tonight, I hope he can get things sorted as the season goes on.
This is the type of team the Raptors are gonna struggle against. Dominant bigs, cuz our 5 man spot is so thin. Quickley also hurt us. Missing bunnies, missing FTs. A tough matchup that was tightly contested and ended up being very winnable. I'm still happy with the start though, we're still getting our highway miles on this car.
Just didn’t see enough energy from some of the guys…woulda loved to see cmb take some minutes to go against giannis
I disagree that this was a game loss on FTs. This was a game loss because of the bench. A lot of games against playoff contenders are gonna come down to depth it’s as simple as that. Cold Anthony showed up huge for the Bucks. Gradey on the other hand 18 min 5pts, Darko why.
Raptors are a good young team but expect some losses to be off the fact that the bench is inconsistent, not FTs.
7:40 get ur facts straight Scottie missed one ft not plural free throws
Both teams missed 11 FTs
This is a good loss in the sense that if there was any time to lose to them, it was now. We had chances to win this game. Bench certainly needed to be better on both sides of the floor. Gradey was invisible and if he’s gonna be this inconsistent then that could spell trouble for our bench output. CMB is gonna be massive. JaKobe coming back will also be massive. Cole Anthony also won’t go off for 23 when we play them again. But the fact we had chances to win this game and could’ve easily won by 5-10+ shows we’re improving. Tough one to take but some of these things are easy to clean up
DNP IQ in the 4th
Layup line with ZERO rim protection
Missed free throws
Ingram froze out in the fourth
Bad turnovers
Es is so underrated
Iq played three good quarters but got way too excited at the fourth making bad decisions. Overall the team looked good probably should’ve tried to play Mogbo a bit more
Way too much iso.
9:00 I 100% agree. The starting unit needs to put their ego aside and accept their roles when playing together in that unit. I think RJ and Poetl have already accepted their role. I think Scottie and Ingram kinda know their roles so it's really Quickley in the end that needs to adjust the most. Scottie needs to be the #1 with the ball in his hands and creating. Ingram as the #2 to relieve pressure and go-to shot maker. And Quickley needs to move off-ball completely. He should be running around screens, causing chaos, shooting 10+ 3s. Those roles will obviously change with mixed bench lineups but with that starting 5, that should be their roles imo.
Darko thinks iq is the star of the team he’s a role player like rj and should only be used for clean up buckets untill we can move his and rjs salary for a booker type star
Bad focus on Def and offense. This is very bad because they need to defend the home court. Losses to similar or lower talent at home is why teams are low in playing vs playoffs. Worried about Jak and back because schedule does not stop and FO did bad job with roster balance those 7 50% of the team small wings got dominated. Even the best def small wing Ochai got crushed and Gradey outclassed. Sandro a decent PF/C also looked very small as Giannis, Miles, Bobby and Kyle made them scramble so much to impact size that GTJ and Cole A got loose.
Lucky win vs the Hawks but most teams won't let the Raptors do whatever they want in the paint and force them to shoot 3s. This team doesn't have the spacing to be a good offensive team and has MANY NEGATIVE defenders so good luck being good defensively. Bucks are not even close to a top team so it'll get worse in these next few games.
I don't want to hear anything about Scottie being All Defensive.
Scottie man is Giannis.
Guard ur man.
Totally embarrassing
Great meeting you fellas! Keep up the great work and take Pull Up Tres to THE TOPPP!
– Benton Brown from Haliburton ✌️
This team needs to find another Kyle Lowry. This means they need to make a choice between RJ and IQ or both. They’re playing the same position even if they have IQ at the 1 and the half-court O is suffering because of it. There’s no table setter, no penetration, it’s a log jam. I’ve said as much for over a year now and it ain’t going away. I’d prefer to keep IQ and that way your D improves not because he’s a good defender it’s more addition by subtraction. You put a floor general on this team and they will find a whole new gear. Right now the best PG on this team is Scottie and do we really want him out there full time 🧐 Let him cook from wherever he sets up, but, if you give him a foil such as a true Lowry clone he’ll benefit as will the entire team. There’s a reason that those undermanned Raptors teams won so many games from the twenty teens and it was because of Kyle. Don’t give me this crap that you don’t need an initiator to create balance and maximize your O it has never been true. GD is sitting in the wings as well as JW and CMB…. somethings gotta give. A trade is the only solution to maximize this team’s potential and it has lots of potential.
I’m not a fan of Scottie’s flexing and taunting players.. be humble and play the game, Scottie. It was corny the 1st season and it’s still corny in the 5th season.
I was there last night. What went wrong was double teaming Giannis and leaving an open shooter. Nobody can defend cole anthony. Aggressive defense was a gimmick and was non existent in the last 5min.
that basketball bounce on the upvote is so cool! also yea this is a good lesson for raptors, its not always going to be easy, especially when there is interior defense, san antonio gonna be scary against wemby also
Giannis! 🤷🏿♂️
IQ started acting like the star
SB vs GA and lost
3<2 ?
Start r j at the 1 put dick at the two and have quigley off your bench make him the 6 th man make you free throws you beat every body by 10 points stupid coaching
See disrespecting and discrediting the others on the Bucks is what cost Raps the game. Those are some solid and good role players that stepped up. Turner stats didn't show it but he was their floor general and was one of the biggest facts why the Bucks were able to slow the Raps down, but calling out what the Raps were doing before they did it. Stop looking at stats when breaking down games. Raps could have won this game if they would have respected guys like Anthony, Trent, TP and wasn't only focused on Giannis. Yes, it's a game they can learn from.
Great coverage guys!
Hey love the vlog style content!
As a bucks fan, would love Scottie Barnes to be in the Bucks. Please trade him.
Immanuel quickley needs to improve or else that 32.5 mill contract suddenly becomes a toxic asset around the league and we are stuck with him if I was bobby webster I would be looking at
Rj
Barnes
Ingram
Quickley
And saying quickley is the one I upgrade on the other 3 are doing good and looking good