Okay, I’ll take the hit on this one. I don’t see our losing streak in Toronto ending too.
Assuming everyone plays, I sure hope there are no injuries.
There’s a game tonight - Wolves at Raptors GDT
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Everyone is available tonight.
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Tim, I predicted a couple weeks ago Toronto would be favored in this one, and you said the Wolves would be. You were correct...Wolves are favored by 1 1/2. Surprising considering the Raps are in 4th place in the East, and Ant was still in diapers the last time we won north of the border (to be fair, Ant was slow in potty training).
But somehow I think we win this one. Finchy was furious about the defensive effort in the last game (so was I FWIW), and I'm sure film sessions have not been pleasant. The Wolves typically put out a good effort after a crappy one, so I think we will see a much better defensive effort tonight against a Toronto team that plays pretty good defense but is not very good on offense.
Chris Paul and Jacob Poetl are out for the Raps, and the latter means they start a 6'7" 20 year old center. Big night on the offensive boards for Rudy?
I've been saying for a few weeks that I don't see the main problem with this team the non-Rudy minutes or lack of a PG...it's defensive effort by our two highest scorers. When they are locked in on defense like in the OkC game, we usually win. But when they mail it in on the defensive end like last game in Memphis, the results are not as good. Dane Moore and Kyle Thiege have jumped on this bandwagon too based on their podcast yesterday. They talked about how tired they are of hearing Donte say "we need to be more focused on defense" after every loss. As the podders said, Donte isn't talking about Rudy, Jaden or himself. He's calling out Ju and Ant after every loss without saying their names. Both of them are expected to play despite being on the injury list, and I'm predicting a good defensive effort from them and a nice win.
Then again, I also predicted Toronto would be favored...
But somehow I think we win this one. Finchy was furious about the defensive effort in the last game (so was I FWIW), and I'm sure film sessions have not been pleasant. The Wolves typically put out a good effort after a crappy one, so I think we will see a much better defensive effort tonight against a Toronto team that plays pretty good defense but is not very good on offense.
Chris Paul and Jacob Poetl are out for the Raps, and the latter means they start a 6'7" 20 year old center. Big night on the offensive boards for Rudy?
I've been saying for a few weeks that I don't see the main problem with this team the non-Rudy minutes or lack of a PG...it's defensive effort by our two highest scorers. When they are locked in on defense like in the OkC game, we usually win. But when they mail it in on the defensive end like last game in Memphis, the results are not as good. Dane Moore and Kyle Thiege have jumped on this bandwagon too based on their podcast yesterday. They talked about how tired they are of hearing Donte say "we need to be more focused on defense" after every loss. As the podders said, Donte isn't talking about Rudy, Jaden or himself. He's calling out Ju and Ant after every loss without saying their names. Both of them are expected to play despite being on the injury list, and I'm predicting a good defensive effort from them and a nice win.
Then again, I also predicted Toronto would be favored...
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Win one for Mike?!?
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This is where Jaden has such an advantage playing with Randle and Ant. Ingram is guarding him.
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"Quickley, a little too fast!" says Alan Horton on the travel call. FNG's gotta love that! Michael Grady would never be caught saying that at the cool kids' lunch table!
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I really hope one of Randle or NAZ is gone. Preferably Randle, because at least NAZ tries hard on defense.