where are all you haters now??? Even the refs couldn't stop the Raptors.:00hour:00hour:00hour:00hour:firing::firing::firing::firing::firing:x30:x30:
still here Crookity, and just for the record not a Raptor hater as I'm pulling for them to win the series.....
glad to see that they raised their level of play at home and hope that they are able to raise that level on the road as well as their last few performances away from home have been dreadful at best - still think that the play overall in the league is way down and that the EC in general this year was historically bad and that the Raptors do not fare well at all in comparison to the strength of previous conference finalists in the NBA - don't think the Cavs are a good enough team where we can point to beating them as proof that the Raptors are somehow totally legit
at the end of the day none of this really matters - when I started this thread one point I was trying to make was that there has been a major decline in the NBA product, as despite the strong recent play by OKC even the WC Finals look like a glorified pickup game most of the time with tons of awful turnovers, bad shots, etc - and that the EC was really bad this year, like when has there been a worse 8 teams to make the EC playoffs then the lineup trotted out this year? and still say there are few previous NBA conference finalists, if any, that would lose to the Raptors in a 7 game series (going back to at least the early 80's)
either way I am cheering for the Raptors to somehow pull off a series win despite their long odds to do so - but even if they win it will not really change my opinion of how good they really are as a team in a historical sense
good luck - burns