If True… They just SERIOUSLY Levelled Up…
The Toronto Raptors just got a really impressive win against a red-hot Milwaukee Bucks team, and they did it on the backs of some incredible performances from Immanuel Quickley and Brandon Ingram. On top of it, Jakob Poeltl is looking closer to normal, and the Raptors are moving in the right direction. Ben Rogers breaks down the latest developments and what it means for the Raptors.
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Jakob Poeltl Looks Healthy In Raptors Win Over Bucks
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This was a good win but couldn’t we have just traded Gradey in some kind of deal for Cam Thomas ? The Nets waived this man and he’s better than Gradey. If he was coming off our bench it would have fixed a bunch of our problems. Bobby dropped the ball here. What’s their obsession with Gradey Dick and giving him minutes Matt Thomas couldn’t even get ? 🤔 Battle can’t even get minutes, Trayce can’t even get on the floor. How is Gradey getting consistent minutes 🤷♂️I don’t know what’s going on man. I just have a feeling Darko is going to put this guy in the playoffs rotation. This is turning into Bargnani all
Over again by forcing minutes on him in hopes he turn’s the corner instead of letting him earn the minutes.
Where is Trayce Jackson- Davis ? All of the sudden he is not playing . You are going to risk CMB and Mamu getting injured if you don't play this guy his minutes to take on opponents centres. You brought him in to do that, play him !! Even in this game when it was virtually over Jackson-Davis didn't see the floor. Also Battle needs more minutes and he needs to get the ball. His shooting continues but he doesn't get the ball.
You have to give it to Martin !! I don't get how Dick has lost his game ! Can someone tell me why he has fallen off the table so badly ? Strange , he has shown the talent but has dissappeared !
Does TJD actually suck in practice, or was he smashing Darko’s wife or something? Because I don’t know why he doesn’t get minutes at backup C. CMB’s left thumb is already banged up. You can’t risk playing CMB at full-time backup C.
TJD needs minutes.
Martin wil problably be more effective than G. Dick .
Definitely Martin
I get your positivity with rj, but he's been pretty bad over the last 15 games. Quick has been SOOO much better than RJ through that stretch… I wouldn't be mad at an RJ trade this off-season.
Notice how as soon as Scottie sits we blow out a team by 30?
Ayeeee
Great job my G
Martin should get some run. All the bench should get run when you are killing the other team. TJD, Battle and Martin all should get some more minutes. Let CMB heal a bit.
6 and 3 is not red hot. The Raptors missing their star player beat a bad team also missing their star player. It’s a good win over a lottery team. The Raptors are a good team trying to avoid the play-in tournament. That’s their ceiling:
Hyped
IQs processing of the court has looked a lot better last few games. If Jak gets healthy he gets his PnR partner back, Jaks presence creates better looks at 3.. if all goes well on these fronts, drastically changes our team going forward. Plus values increase, could be worse. Hoping TJD isn't playing because weak bigs for Milwaukee and Chicago and he just working his way into the system
We cannot fall into the trappings of post All-Star NBA where above 500 teams are hooping and below 500 teams are figuring out every which way to innovatively tank for Draft picks. We looked in control and played consistent which is a plus but yeah I'm not at all going to pretend these Bucks rotations were ever meant to be winning basketball. Other teams have their tanks commanders on the court and the greenlight to do things in a regular season a coach would restrict as a shot diet and so it's pretty much what I saw by the Bucks. The good signs is Jakob is looking a bit healthier the bad news is RJ looks like he is playing through the pain on his strained knees. I think the medical staff need to have a talk with RJ about ramping up and not trying to rush his recovery because it looks like he's frustrated at just being another body on the court and wants to do more than his body is capable of right now. On the abundance of caution I would sit him out a few more games and go back to light contact practice because he is on a quick path to re-injuring himself if he plays like that. Jakobe is really coming along and taking Gradey minutes decisively and as much as I like to see the development I wonder what it means for Gradey that these younger guys are at a far steeper development curve than him, Gradey is plateauing that much is clear. Also I think the dump IQ peanut gallery is quite now for the moment because he is playing to his contract … that kind of includes me btw but had more caveats for conditions to his removal; so good on him. The Jakob and IQ duo really unlocks a big dynamic threat to opposing teams and today we just saw half of that duo contributing to scoring but when Jak can easily peel away for that push shot he does so well it's a menacing one-two punch and as Jakob recovers you can begin to expect that scoring punch more. BI is BI and he is here for the heroics and he delivers on that especially on shot blocks … damn. Lastly what can I say about Jamal and Mamu; I think they have been the best positive character additions that any team can hope for. Just dogs who are happy to go and do the thing they love at a high level without complaints and they do it so well within a team atmosphere by contributing first. I'm so impressed by them which say's so much about this teams scouting depth and their development pipeline. Two things that started to go South with Nick Nurse as the head coach … I think Nick wanted finished products so they were harder to develop while Darko is pushing the front office for more unpolished but eager to learn players who are just dogs by nature; those you can develop.
Gradey
Gradey just needs to go to the Gleauge and get back to himself
You don't "level up" by beating the Bucks without Giannis.
Gradey brick
Alijah Martin
alijah of course
Ben, why only 2 choices for more minutes? I like Martin but my first pick would be Battle. He has proven himself over and over. When he was sent down to the G League for one game last Friday he didn't complain, he went out and scored 22 points (including 6 3's), 5 rebounds and 8 assists. Today, in 4 min. he drained a 3 and grabbed a rebound. All so he could sit on the bench until junk time??? Tied for second are Martin and TJD. Dick isn't even on my list. It's not just his shooting, his defence is so bad. Opponents just blow by him.
A great game against a team that has won 6 of their last 7 without their star. Thank you RAPS!
Man, good job Ben, great work!