Your severely depleted Toronto Raptors fall in spite of a valiant effort, to the Denver Nuggets, 125-119

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1. I get we had a very shorthanded roster and it’s in Denver so rotations had to get funky but man Darko went full tank mode in the second half with his rotations lol

   Overall fun game, very happy with the effort. Wins and lessons. Sickos got a treat tonight lol

2. Tanking done right

3. Perfect game lol

4. The Canadians showed out tonight.

5. Darko benching RJ and Kelly at key points in the game. He knows we’re keeping the pick

6. The porter-porter jersey swap made me smile

7. #Just a bunch of sickos in here

8. *chefs kiss*

9. Great tank game couldn’t ask for anything more

10. What an effort! Perfect tank game. Gradey, Barrett and Olynyk really highlight some bright spots for next year.

11. Brilliant development / tank game. Some quick observations –

    * RJ is a tank.

    * Is Murray the best current player never to be an All Star?

    * Bruce is unserious in a Raptors jersey

12. Hugely impressed by Dick and Olynyk is the vet we didn’t know we needed. Really enjoyed that game. 

13. What an awesome game despite the predictable comeback.

    Gradey stood out like a mfer. Amazing effort.
    Jontay belongs in this team, man. Just sign him. He deserves a contract.

    How about our MAPLE MAGIC?!

14. That was a fun af game lol

15. Darko saw the lead and put in jalen McDonalds , incredible stealth tank

16. Some of the raps starters sitting in the bench looked worried about losing their spot

17. We’re gonna be lucky for a bag of chips for Bruce brown god damn does he look horrible every single time he’s out there

18. salute to the people who watched this game

19. I just don’t see why we wouldn’t be playing a line up of RJ, Gradey, Ochai, Jontay and Kelly for the last 5 minutes

    Well it was still a mostly fun game to watch

20. Hey that was fun.

21. i came for the lolz and stayed for the hype.

    awesome effort – can’t ask for anything more.

22. I really don’t think you can blame Darko for this lol, the fact this was even close should be a great reflection on the coaching staff. They played 3 gleague players in this rotation and still took the defending champs to the wire.

    RJ played 38 mins, Gradey played 37.

    I think it’s the right decision to not run your guys into the ground risking injury to chase meaningless wins. The goal is development. They won’t want to play guys 40+ minutes and I think that’s totally fine.

23. That was an amazing game. I was expecting to be blown out by 30 by the half. It’s games like these where the opponent has to play their starters till the end that are the best for development. Get that clutch time experience and get a full 48 minutes of effort for development.

24. Couple things. Actually great game tonight, so entertaining and we got to see a lot of players shine, like we legit just did that to the Nuggets man that’s crazy.

    Second, fire McDaniels to Saturn and Brown to Neptune dawg, they “help” the tank by being bad but are terrible for chemistry.

    And finally, loved the jersey swap moment between the Porter brothers. GGs!

25. Bruce brown is something else lol

26. Funniest game of the season ngl. Really happy to see Gradey, Jontay, Nwora and RJ show up though

27. Just about as good as it could get from the team while still chasing the tank. Great performances by Kelly, RJ, Gradey, Porter, and Nwora. Even McDaniels looked serviceable for a stretch. It was funny when they led, but the coaches and Murray got their shit together. What can you do ?

28. First 3 qtrs: proof that we can

    Last qtr: proof that we don’t wanna

29. I’m proud of these guys. These guys are playing hard and they like playing for darko. I love darko coaching them and RJ went from being a “toxic asset” to being able to take it to the best team in the league with an undermanned roster. I like how darko is getting more out of RJ. Darko’s system also proved to be effective.

30. You better be hoping Darko was tanking with his decisions or else all evidence points to the fact that we have a trash coaching staff with 0 game management.

    Jaden McDaniels tech really?

31. Look I know Bruce Brown is ass (for us at least) but what I dislike the most about him is that he makes mistakes and gets really upset and his body language and face changes yet he doesn’t change or try to change at least.

    He’s in the same boat in the rotation as McDaniels to me

32. What a great game by the squad. Another great learning experience for them. Fucking Gradey man. He’s so good. I’m so excited for his development. And today we saw the coaching staff make RJ more of a distributor – great to see.

33. No way darko didn’t purposely throw this game. Taking out Kelly and barely playing Kelly in the second half when he was on fire and letting McDaniels take that free throw when dick was on the floor. Can’t convince me darko didn’t purposely do this.

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35. I wanted RJ to get that double double.

36. If we had OG/Pascal/Scottie/Yak/Dennis and played this game, we would have lost by 12.

    I’ll take this tanking garbage can team with a future over whatever the fuck we were trying to do at the start of the season.

37. Honestly Gradey needs to be starting going forward. Think next years starting 5 is gonna be:

    IQ / Gradey / RJ / Scottie / Poeltl

38. This was a W game, idgaf I had a good time

39. I haven’t watched a full game in a minute this season but man does Gradey Dick look like what everyone hoped he’d be. So effective with the ball in his hands and finds holes without the ball. Loved his game tn