Raptors(17-20) @ Hornets(18-18) [Preview]

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The Raptors are limping into this game without OG, VanVleet, Pascal, Flynn, and McCaw(COVID-ish). Teams sometimes can rally behind their bench players but the Raptors have not been one of those teams dropping their last three games, and five out of their last six. The Hornets on the other hand are healthy as hell and once again have a chance at getting over 500. The Raptors injuries might seem a lot worse than they actually are because of one fucking guy, Chris Boucher. This guy has had 45 points on 79% shooting in two wins against the Hornets this year. The problems Powell and Boucher have caused against us highlights (for the 10,000 time) the fact that we are a short ass team. I still think the Hornets will win this one tonight, as does Vegas (Hornets -2.5) probably because of superior guards.

Hornets Keys

Man up in the post – don’t let any of the Raptors back up big men push us around. They aren’t the best and shouldn’t get a whole lot of love from the refs based on ”legacy”.

Guard play – Kyle Lowry is no slouch, but LaMelo is longer, younger, and faster at this point in his career and should be able to create some transition buckets. The Hornets also have Monk, Graham, Rozier who can all get buckets.

Runs – Borrego doesn’t always like calling timeouts during runs, which I do not actually have a problem with; but maybe he should make some subs during the runs to try to break them up. Another option would be running the full court press as a set play on certain possessions, the press has worked great in desperate situations so we should give it some run earlier. 

Raptors Keys 

Big Men – Banes versus Zeller is a wash, but after that the Raptors still have Powell and Boucher. The Hornets counter that with Bismack Biyombo……

Bench Squad – The Raptors don’t have very much guard or wing depth tonight so they will need someone to step up because the Hornets bench is hungry and good as fuck.

Let’s Talk About Tony Brothers’ Eyebrows [Take]

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I was doing some research on the NBA officials website when I came across a name that I’m not a huge fan of “Tony Brothers”. Tony is known for being a shitty ref, holding vendettas and apparently to Rockets fans as Hitler.

Looking at the above picture you might think to yourself “his brows aren’t that big?” or “Have you seen Anthony Davis’” or “ You’re just being critical because he’s a bad ref” or “I’d glare at Pat Bevs dirty ass like that too”; and you would be 5000% WRONG( unless you had the Pat Bev take, fuck that guy).

You see, what most people don’t understand about Tony’s eyebrows is that they do not even appear unseemly on the court. Have you ever seen Brothers off the court? He’s been in the league for fucking ever and I never even noticed these bad boys until I stumbled upon his profile on the NBA officials website.

WHAT ARE THOSE?!?! Seriously how the fuck have I never noticed that he looks like this? Guy’s got more brow than he has cheeks. I have probably seen this man over 500 times on TV in my life and I have never once said to myself huh that guys got a real set of Einstein’s up there huh? What is this brow phenomena? It was time to do some deep diving on his google images page, please enjoy the following Tony Brothers pictures.(alternating on/off court)

Am I crazy or do his brows not pop on the court the same way they do off court? You almost have to respect his eyebrows for their shear dominance.

Pistons-102 Hornets-105 [Wrap-up]

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It was nice to have the whole squad back together, would have been nicer if we didn’t NEED everyone… At this point in the rebuilding process (or is it just building since the Hornets have never really been shit?) it is probably a little obnoxious to get upset at wins but this one could have easily gone the Pistons way if Rozier didn’t dad dick the hell out of the net in the last couple minutes. I’d like to just chalk it up to the first game after the Allstar break but a few things in particular bothered me.

Keep fucking walkin Tony Brothers, nobody likes you
  • SLOW FUCKING CLOSEOUTS, I don’t give a shit if I’m annoying you by rehashing this every other game because there’s no way that’s more annoying then watching Saddiq Bey hit four threes on 50 year old YMCA ass closeouts from Ball
  • 3rd Quarter – normally we are fine in the third but last night we let the Pistons back in the game. We let them back in this game 100%, the Pistons didn’t play well, hit contested shots, or even play all that hard. But we did play lax defense, turn the ball over, and let the 13 point lead get completely erased quick af
  • Rotations, I just don’t see the pattern or reasoning. Yes I understand everyone is healthy and there are only 240 minutes… BUT there is zero reason to play Biz for 13 minutes. Your telling me Carey Jr or Richards could not have put up this fucking stat line???
  •  If that’s true send their asses to Europe or China or something because they aren’t built for the NBA, but that’s the thing we don’t fucking know because they never get the reps!!!!!

First MJ sighting of the year, and Terry did his best job imitating Mike down the stretch, scoring our final 8 points. Gotta think he made sure to be there to see us win out 12th straight against the Pistons. Jordan hates the Pistons (I noted this in case any zoomers who haven’t watched the last dance are reading)

It was fun watching a game where the outcome was not 100% determined by 3 pointers. We did a good job moving things towards the rim when the 3s were not dropping

The power flashed on and off mid game in the arena, weird.