Ingram fails to meet challenge as Raptors fall to Cavaliers in Game 2

“Of course it would happen if you ask for more shots, that you would miss more shots,” A tough night for Brandon Ingram, but hope for the Raptors, even down 0-2? www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

Ingram fails to meet challenge as Raptors fall to Cavaliers in Game 2

“Of course it would happen if you ask for more shots, that you would miss more shots,” A tough night for Brandon Ingram, but hope for the Raptors, even down 0-2? www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

Some real progress by Raptors. Pledged to play harder and they did. Force 8 Cavs TO and ended up with 11 FB points. But Mitchell, Harden and Mobley are 18/28 for 43pts. Ingram is 0/6 and hasn't got to line. Raps shooting 40.9% RJ w 10, Barnes w 9, CMB and Sandro w 8 each.

Raptors' defence must step up after Game 1 letdown After finishing the season with the fifth-ranked defence in the NBA, the Raptors had major problems slowing down the Cavaliers in Game 1. They must search for answers at that end of the court if they ...

Sure, there are some fixes the Raptors need to make offensively against the Cavs, but if the Raptors aren’t their disruptive selves on defense, they got no shot: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

Barnes, Barrett and Shead a combined 8/10 from three but Raps trailing 61-54, which is a concerning combo. Cavs packing paint and slowing game (Raps w 1 FB pt) and even with 8/15 from 3 Raps trail. Harden/Mitchell w 28 &10. Four Raps starters in double figures, Jak 0pts.

Raptors hope return to competitive relevance leads to long-term success The Raptors have returned to competitive relevance by getting back into the NBA Playoffs as the No. 5 seed, but they must now prove that this is the start of something meaningful.

As the Raptors get ready for their first playoff action in four years, I look back on previous ‘surprise’ seasons to see where this one might be headed: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

ICYMI -- My feature on Ja'Kobe Walter who has taken huge leaps this season and promises to be a key figure vs. Cavs for the Raptors:

ICYMI -- My feature on Ja'Kobe Walter who has taken huge leaps this season and promises to be a key figure vs. Cavs for the Raptors:

How a driven Ja'Kobe Walter earned crucial role with Raptors For Ja'Kobe Walter, the ability to 'figure it out' was baked in. Michael Grange has the story on how the second-year wing earned a crucial role on the playoff-bound Raptors.

“His ability to take coaching is very old school .. whatever you tell him to do, it’s, ‘I’m on it.’” -- Ja'Kobe Walter has 'figured it out' and in his 2nd season has earned minutes the Raptors desperately needed filled -- www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

How a driven Ja'Kobe Walter earned crucial role with Raptors For Ja'Kobe Walter, the ability to 'figure it out' was baked in. Michael Grange has the story on how the second-year wing earned a crucial role on the playoff-bound Raptors.

On Ja'Kobe Walter and his drive to find an NBA role, and how it's helped transform the Raptors: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

😂😂 … he’s not good enough to get his coach fired. Chet would look pretty good on that team.

Banchero is excruciating to watch.

Notebook: Barnes 'grateful' as inexperienced Raptors return to playoffs

Some stories in the works, but for now, 3PT Grange (bonus edition) from the Raptors first pre-playoff media availability in four years! www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

60 minutes!!

Raptors announce that Quickley is day-to-day with a mild hamstring strain, and the NBA announces that Brandon Ingram is the Eastern Conference player of the week.

New-era Raptors make good on promise of playoff basketball With the rebuild in the rearview mirror, the Toronto Raptors came into this season with a lofty goal: to play playoff basketball. They reached it. Next up: Cleveland. Michael Grange has the story

The Raptors make the playoffs!! And in 3PT Grange (bonus edition) — looking back at 10 (!) moments that helped shape the Raptors season: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

No brainer IMO

He’ll be in management, I predict. And they actually changed to 6 pm starts to avoid conflicting with Masters (for the most part). 7pm makes more sense.

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New-era Raptors make good on promise of playoff basketball With the rebuild in the rearview mirror, the Toronto Raptors came into this season with a lofty goal: to play playoff basketball. They reached it. Next up: Cleveland. Michael Grange has the story

The Raptors make the playoffs!! And in 3PT Grange (bonus edition) — looking back at 10 (!) moments that helped shape the Raptors season: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

Unfortunate that NBATV no longer does first-round games, because Cleveland-Toronto is the most NBATV series that ever NBATVed

Insane:

Raptors open playoffs at 1pm Saturday in Cleveland.

Rajakovic on being 1st Euro HCto take NBA team to playoffs: "Well there's not many of us, its no huge accomplishment" ... but then: "so many players, so many coaches from ex-Yugoslavia, especially Serbia, made this path possible ...without their successes, I would never be in this position."

Quickley having MRI post-game, no updates on result. He left the game at half-time with hamstring tightness in right leg.

"We never set a goal of this seed or that seed, we were just focussing on our work, focussing on things we can control, and the hands played out well for us," -- Darko Rajakovic on guiding Raptors to playoffs for the first time, and 16-win improvement from a year ago, 21 from the year before that.

Celtics sit starters and their bench beats Magic starters anyway, lol. Win pushes Raptors ahead of Hawks for 5th seed in the East. Toronto will be playing 4th seeded Cleveland. Schedule TBA.

ICYMI -

My bad. Too soon.

Jays are Joel Embiid of MLB teams