I was impressed by what I saw last night. I saw a well coached team stick to its game and when knicks cooled off they game turned. They were patient. Nurse coached a good game! Did Thibs? When you lose its always easy to in hindsight to second guess and focus on mistakes. Somtimes the other team execcutes and exacts it will. Raptors did that with few stars in the line up. speaks to a culure Masai and nurse are executing. They are looking like Miami now, a team that can rebuild without hitting rock bottom because it drafts and develops well to avoid deep lottery year after year.
I hate losing but notion that we should have won and need to lay blame is old.

Knick wise I saw Randle got taken out but RJ step up. Defense will give and take. IQ got a chance and some decent playmaking. Problem is now he is logically over thinking and its effected his shooting. Pehraps Thibs is thinking he plays thru it and the rule changes and we have to bite the bullet. That is the price to develop players.

This is a raptors page and its important that they are doing just that. In the “i told you catagory” in the predictions thread I did say “are we sleeping on the Raptors, Wiz and Pacers”. its way early to call anything but obviously the team up north came in and did well. I know it hurts to be up 15 and then feel “this was our game, dammit!!!!”, well it was then Raptors got super hot, we did too but we traded baskets. I hope some of you appreciated that dow the stretch, that knicks really did make a run but they just matched us blow by blow. ulitmately their defense won out. We got buckets but they were super hard. Drose could not get it going and trail by fire Thibs went with IQ and kemba off the ball. No it did not work. No, thibs did not give up. He developed.