0 comments by Kevin Causey on 5/3/2016
It was a crazy finish to regulation in game one between Toronto and Miami that culminated in Kyle Lowry nailing a half-court buzzer beater to force overtime! Kyle Lowry! https://t.co/552FMKbHsU — Crossover Chronicles (@crossoverNBA)
0 comments by Jovan Alford
In basketball, college or pro, we’ve all hear the saying good guard play wins games in the postseason. Sunday afternoon, in a win-or-go-home situation, that saying held true as the Miami Heat took the sting out of the Charlotte Hornets, 106-73. Miami point guard Goran Dragic left his mark on the game by playing with […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 5/2/2016
The play’s the thing, as Shakespeare taught us, and without players, we don’t have much of a drama — not in the NBA playoffs or in any other competition under the sun. The first round of the postseason presented, on many levels, the kind of portraits we expected to see. Paul George and — more […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The city of Toronto is psychologically accustomed to losing in the playoffs. The hockey mecca doesn’t have any Canadian team to root for in the quest for the Stanley Cup, so the Raptors are the only show in town as the North American spring unfolds. Sunday night in the Air Canada Centre, as one predictably […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 5/1/2016
Check out this move by DeMar DeRozan as he leaves his defender in the dust and puts the ball in the basket….. Spin Cycle north of the border!
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/30/2016
By its very nature, Game 7 is a crapshoot. Six battles, six episodes of jousting and probing and punching and counterpunching, give way to a single theater of events, one isolated thrill ride of 2.5 hours in which percentages and laws of averages don’t mean very much. The finality of a Game 7 — in […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/29/2016
Check out this play as DeMar DeRozan crashes the boards for a big time put-back dunk! DeMar DeRozan, above the trees!
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/27/2016
The Toronto Raptors and their fans were immersed in a typically miserable NBA playoff experience. After the Game 7 heartbreaker against the Brooklyn Nets in 2014, and the humiliating sweep at the hands of the Washington Wizards in 2015, the Toronto Raptors needed to get it right in 2016. Toronto citizens consider hockey and not […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/26/2016
The Toronto Raptors outscored the Indiana Pacers 25-9 in the final quarter as they came from behind to take game five of the series. Here’s one of the key plays of the comeback as Norman Powell makes the steal and throws down a highlight film dunk as the Raptors tied the score with the Raptors…. […]
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With the series tied 2-2, the Pacers have taken the early lead in game five but DeMar DeRozan has the highlight of the night so far with this dunk….. DeMar with the high percentage shot.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/24/2016
We’ve played at least three games in all four Eastern Conference playoff series, making our way through this spread-out first week of the postseason. Should anything we’ve seen this week truly surprise us? If we are surprised, it says more about us and our expectations than these teams and their players. Truly, nothing from any […]
Apr 18, 2016; Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) drives to the basket in front of Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki (41) during the third quarter in game two of the first round of the NBA Playoffs at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/19/2016
The NBA playoffs are a basketball seminar, in that they so dramatically and powerfully reveal what works and what doesn’t. There’s no hiding in — or from — the playoffs. Every possession is fiercely contested. Back-bench players no longer steal second-quarter minutes. The energy level easily eclipses anything fans witnessed during the regular season. Every […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 4/18/2016
After losing the first game of their series with the Pacers, the Raptors took a 1st half lead in game two behind plays like these two alley-oops from Kyle Lowry to Jonas Valanciunas…… Lowry with the find & Jonas with the finish on NBATV!
0 comments by Bart D on 4/17/2016
Folks don’t remember it much, because folks tend to forget quickly in this microwave world, but before Paul George snapped his leg in a Team USA exhibition, he was arguably one of the top five players in the NBA. The combination George had — length, athleticism, defense, and just a tinge of overconfidence — made […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/16/2016
The Toronto Raptors would not agree with George Santayana. The Spanish-born, Harvard-educated philosopher famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemened to repeat it.” The Raptors’ problem is that they’re all too aware of their previous playoff failures. Their coach and their star players keep repeating the patterns that lead to losses… at […]
