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Joe Wolfond

7 months

asked a bunch of coaches about the leaguewide decline in pnr frequency, the rise of high-post hubs, borrowing from the past, & other factors shaping the nba's current offensive dynamic. here's what they had to say:

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

1 year

heat are gonna win the title bc demar wouldn’t let diar miss school smh

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1 year

They were a few minutes away from losing in the play in.

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@joey_doubleyou

5 years

masai dapped up every raptor in the tunnel and said “fuck em” each and every time

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@joey_doubleyou

10 months

all i know is kyle lowry never would’ve let game-ball gate happen

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@joey_doubleyou

4 years

this is another reminder that the nba being a progressive institution has nothing to do with the league itself and everything to do with its workforce

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@joey_doubleyou

5 years

can't get over kawhi's reaction to hearing he'd hit the first buzzer-beating game 7 winner in nba history

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

lowry did 31-6-8-2 in 46 minutes (!!!) and threw the game-winning inbounds pass across the whole court over a 9-footer and it landed right in the fucking shooting pocket. pay your respects you heathens

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

3 players from the 2003 draft are still active in the league. two of them are melo & korver, who are barely hanging on. luke walton is like 4 years into his coaching career. james jones is already a fucking gm. and lebron is still the best player in the world

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

i still can't get over this raptors season. they lost a top-3 player + their starting sg/best shooter for nothing in the summer. 6 of their top 7 players have missed at least 10 games. and they have the 3rd-best record in the league? what

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

the universe the raptors 🤝 having no center

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4 years

Since the Universe has no center, you can’t be it.

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

10 months

immanuel quickley joining this raptors team:

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10 months

nba fans tuning into a raptors game for the first time this season:

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

the raptors are about to play a game in which the worst case scenario is coming home tied 2-2 with homecourt advantage in a best-of-3 for an nba championship lololol

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

1 year

great first season, all downhill after that?

Tim Bontemps

@TimBontemps

1 year

Danny Green says Nick Nurse has a “little Ted Lasso in him.”

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 months

wonder if people will bother to mention how awesome gobert's defense was that game and how he completely erased the rim or if we'll just wait for the next time he gets busted on a switch by literally luka doncic to say his defensive rep is undeserved

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

raps are now a warm-weather team playing in a state with no income tax. bring me all the free agents

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

remember when the raps were down 2-0 and trailing in 2OT in game 3 against the bucks with lowry fouled out

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

2 years

might fuck around and never watch another inning of baseball for as long as i live

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@joey_doubleyou

1 year

glad that’s over. now the raptors can turn their attention to more important things, like trading pascal for nickels on the dollar and letting og walk for nothing

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

it really cannot be said enough. the raptors got norm powell & og anunoby for greivis vasquez

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@joey_doubleyou

3 years

the raptors are, objectively, the weirdest fucking team in the nba

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

i’m afraid the raptors will have to keep playing and beating the magic as many times as it takes for that organization to properly atone for giving masai ujiri a $3000 cheque for a year of international scouting

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

norm and kawhi having a heartfelt reunion after 2.5 years apart

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@joey_doubleyou

5 years

imagine kawhi, danny, siakam, fred, and kyle all being on the same team

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

hey shout out pascal siakam that dude played a great fucking game tonight

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

we thought it was vince but kawhi is the prince who was promised

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

farewell, sweet prince

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

6 months

fuck, man. 4 injury-cursed years peppered with flashes of all-time brilliance, finally plays a full season in part by embracing a lower-impact style that allowed him to stay healthy & peak at the right time, drops 40-11-5 in 36 mins of his first-ever postseason game, and then...

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

1 year

anthony edwards:

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

raps really building the whole team out of playmaking power forwards man this shit is absolutely wild

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

1 year

jimmy to demar after the heat shot 28/32 from the free-throw line in a game they won by 11

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

6 years

thunder traded harden to avoid paying like eight dollars in luxury tax and they're gonna be on the hook for a billion dollars next year and win 49 games

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@wojespn

6 years

Oklahoma City forward Jerami Grant has agreed to a three-year, $27M contract to return to the Thunder, league sources told ESPN.

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 months

wolves offensive rating in the playoffs with gobert on the floor: 119.8 with gobert on the bench: 103.2

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@QBetterscope

5 months

Wolves offense is in mud because rudy is on the floor, so that means you have to turn the ball over by passing to him. The brilliant mind of the rudy gobert defender. 🫡

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

10 months

checking in on some members of the 03 draft class: walton - 10 years & 4 teams into coaching career w. green - 6th season coaching j. jones - 6th year as gm perk - 6th year as espn talking head darko - 7 years into 3rd career (farmer) lebron - top-10 player, nba cup champ

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

lowry has more basketball iq in his left ass cheek than this entire timberwolves team

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

can’t believe the raptors get to add kyle lowry, serge ibaka, and og anunoby to this team

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

sure jazz

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

wake me up when chris paul lands bismack a $72-million contract

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@SethPartnow

3 years

Hard to think of a greater illustration of Chris Paul’s greatness than the fact that Bismack has scored double figures in both of his Suns appearances.

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

siakam will find a way to come back better next season. og is going to be an all-star. and 35-year-old lowry will still find a way to be the best player on the team. i’m already excited

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 months

ant edwards, karl towns 2.0, rudy gobert, jaden mcdaniels, mike conley, naz reid, naw:

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

jesus christ, man

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3 years

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

having og anunoby as a tertiary option is such a fucking luxury

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

elite protector of the rim and public safety

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@outsidethenba

4 years

Jaren Jackson Jr. said Jonas Valanciunas gave Grizzlies coaches face shields and told them they had to wear them at practice, hence this photo from @memgrizz

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

he literally didn’t react lol what a psycho

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

10 months

the downstream effect of the quickley addition - not just him being starting pg instead of dennis, but dennis being backup pg instead of malachi - is, uh, significant

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

7 years

bury me with this gif

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

just rewatched that 4th quarter and malcolm miller was really awesome defensively. incidentally, the raptors are now 38-2 all-time in games he plays

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@joey_doubleyou

4 years

"you have to get something for lowry while you can" cool i'll take 64 more games of him in a raptors uniform & the chance to re-sign him in the offseason thx

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

can't believe everyone who was saying all year that kyle lowry carried kawhi to a title turned out to be correct

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

pg - fred sg - norm sf - pascal pf - og c - kyle

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

9 months

pascal was the best development story in raptors history. deserves endless credit for the work he put in to turn himself into an all-nbaer. did his utmost to carry some ill-fitting teams post-championship. built out his game in amazing & unforeseeable ways. wish him the best

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@joey_doubleyou

4 years

i promise you i do not fucking care if kyle walks in free agency when the alternative was taking back one of the insulting trash-platter offers on the table

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

not to be too dramatic but if siakam can't find his way back to being a consistent scoring threat around the basket the raptors are completely and utterly fucked

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

btw baynes might be one of the 5 best (and most illegal) screen-setters in the league. lowry is going to love playing with him

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

i personally would've preferred the timeline where the raptors signed giannis

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

7 years

klan down, man down

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@MarkJackson13

7 years

This Dude is A Clown!!!

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

10 months

it's really gonna suck seeing one of the best players in franchise history get traded for mediocre draft assets and spare parts. at least derozan was given the dignity of being traded for kawhi leonard

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

until i actually see him in a lakers uniform i refuse to believe kawhi’s gonna say no to masai and yes to pelinka

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

2 years

kd is real good and having him on the team would be cool i guess but the raps' team build is so unique and so fuckin weird that part of me would rather just see where it goes. we got our mercenary championship already

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

11 months

@Brandon_N_Wile seems like the deal was actually sealed when shohei found out how little thought of damiano palmegiani and alan roden

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

6 years

if cj plays his way back into the rotation i will buy the fucking pjs

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

sizing up lu dort 1-on-1

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

og is just kawhi who plays in all the games

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

jimmy said it’s ok we have pj tucken now he is a gary stopper

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

*masai sits across from kawhi, 2-year contract on the table, pen in hand* *serge ibaka crashes through the wall and into the meeting room* "boss man, boss man, i think we can get 2 more"

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5 years

Jalen Rose stated on ESPN just now he's 99% sure Kawhi Leonard is returning to Toronto on a 2-year deal, based on sources he's maintained contact with connected to Leonard's situation.

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

2 years

my favourite possession from tonight was the one where pascal and fred (mostly pascal) stopped the ball from getting inside the 3-point line for a full 24

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

raps getting that win without fred and with gtj shooting 2-13 really shouldn’t have been possible. just a monstrous team-wide effort on the offensive glass and an absolutely exquisite defensive performance from precious achiuwa

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@joey_doubleyou

5 years

listen this series is definitely not over but if this is the last thing that happens at oracle, there aren’t enough chef’s kisses

Zach Lowe

@ZachLowe_NBA

5 years

Scene at Oracle

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@joey_doubleyou

10 months

folks, rj being overpaid & mid doesn’t matter. the opportunity cost of not getting a bunch of shitty 1sts last year doesn’t matter. raps had to balance the roster while taking a swing at a potential lead guard of the future. that’s exactly what they did. everything else is fluff

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

kyle lowry: 0 points, 1 fg attempt, and +23 in 14 minutes. i’m not ready to say goodbye

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

lebron out here doing this shit in his sleep

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

this is the possession i still can't get over. bucks had just tied it, raps wobbling, building going nuts. kawhi got to his spot but lost the grip a bit on the way up (great play by brogdon) and had to bail. fred was there. then fred hit the biggest shot of his life

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

i'm so goddamn excited to watch the 2021-22 raptors

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

the lakers are 14-2 and one of their two losses came when norm powell, terrence davis, rondae hollis-jefferson, & chris boucher combined to give them 52 points on 37 shooting possessions

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

2 years

the raptors magically erasing a 16-point deficit in approximately one minute only to score 4 points in overtime is the most raptors shit ever. can’t break up this team. too weird. too nonsensical. keep them together forever

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@joey_doubleyou

6 years

those are clearly the silhouettes of enes kanter and ron baker

ESPN

@espn

6 years

The Knicks could have enough cap space for two max slots next summer 👀

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

kyle lowry has done a lot of mind-bending stuff this postseason but i think my favourite stat is that he has EIGHT BLOCKS

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

the raptors finally hitting a three 9 minutes into the game and it being followed 10 seconds later by a 3 from semi fucking ojeleye is a pretty good summary of how this series has gone so far

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

6 months

suns in 4

theScore

@theScore

6 months

You already know Ant has to pull up in a Cybertruck. 🔥 (🎥: @Timberwolves )

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

how the hell is rondae hollis-jefferson still unsigned

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

jv to the entire spurs team tn

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

little things that make kyle lowry special, vol. 32542434: look where vanvleet is when lowry throws this pass. on the move, in heavy traffic, and it lands right in the shooting pocket. what a dime.

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

something something let's get both

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

6 years

can't decide if the kyle lowry statue should be of him vertically contesting a fastbreak layup or frantically demanding the ball from a referee so he can get it tf inbounded

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

9 months

probably still too early to say for sure but jontay absolutely looks like a dude and it's impossible to overstate how badly the raptors needed to hit on a hidden gem like him

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

giannis vs. celtics defense

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

anyway, before they suspend the season, i'd like to point out that chris boucher is averaging 23.3 points, 10.2 boards & 4.4 blocks per 36 on 67.8% true shooting. he ranks 1st in the league in block rate, 8th in box plus-minus, 2nd in win shares/48, and 2nd in PER

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

fuck it. raps in 7

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

this was the 2nd-best jays team i’ve watched in my life. historic offensive performances from multiple guys. 2 top-3 mvp finishers. probably the cy young winner. run diff of a 100-win team. genuinely can’t believe they aren’t going to make the playoffs. will never believe it

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

10 months

personally would rather extend this dude rather than trade him for, like, andrew nembhard + flotsam, but that’s just me

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

9 months

anyway that was a genuinely awesome game before all the nonsense down the stretch. great fight from an undermanned & undersized raps team. rj might be the truth, i don’t even know anymore

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@joey_doubleyou

10 months

shams tomorrow:

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

9 months

the raptors did pretty well under the circumstances, but those circumstances were self-imposed

Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

9 months

holding off judgment til a deal gets finalized, & giving some benefit of doubt bc the og return was better than i thought it'd be. but i feel like my reaction to a pascal trade is going to be: they did pretty well under the circumstances, but those circumstances were self-imposed

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

that norm piece would've punched me in the gut no matter what but it feels particularly poignant given the transition stage the raptors are in right now. it's really a love letter to this whole era of raptors basketball that's basically coming to an end

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@joey_doubleyou

11 months

it’s pretty funny that masai came out and said he hated watching last year’s team… and then ran it back with a downgrade at pg & a new offense that de-emphasized the team’s best scorer

i. adan

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if this season has taught me anything it's that fred vanvleet was good and nick nurse was right. i mean I already thought this, but it's just so unbearably loud now.

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

one thing we will not be doing today is questioning masai ujiri’s decision-making

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

4 years

i think the most underappreciated thing about lowry's passing is the way he leads guys to spots they don't even realize they should be going

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

5 years

on kawhi leonard’s brief, wondrous raptors tenure

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Joe Wolfond

@joey_doubleyou

3 years

man, precious has a 38.8 true shooting % … that’s legitimately tough to do as a big man. he also has a higher usage rate than fvv

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@joey_doubleyou

4 years

not interested in doing the "we've been through worse as a fanbase" thing. let me tell you something about the raptors' lean years: THEY ABSOLUTELY SUCKED AND I NEVER WANT TO EXPERIENCE ANYTHING LIKE THEM AGAIN

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