Raptors Cage

Game 1: Raptors’ Fourth Quarter Collapse

It’s closing time. The score was 83 – 76 and the Raptors held a 7-point lead entering the fourth quarter. Despite leading the game for almost 38 minutes, this was the beginning of the performative collapse for Toronto. So, what happened in the final 12-minutes that led a trailing Bucks team to outscore the Raptors … Read more

Five Essential Factors for the Raptors in the ECF

We’ve talked about it all year and we’re finally getting it. After a four-bounce miracle from the heavens shot against the Philadelphia 76ers in a game 7, Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors have made the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2016. Wow, that sentence made us seem like a really successful franchise, … Read more

4 Bounces at the Buzzer, then there were 4 – Game Recap & Looking Forward

Classic Moments The world is still buzzing after Kawhi Leonard’s series clinching buzzer beater. The shot, heard around the world. Vindication for 18 years of what-ifs after Vince Carter missed an eerily similar shot versus the 76ers in the conference semis. 4 bounces. Then there were 4. 4 teams to battle it out for the … Read more

Fred VanVleet: It’s Complicated

Recap Game 3 didn’t exactly go the way the team wanted. Imagine losing when both Kawhi and Siakam drop 20+points because the rest of your roster can’t make anything. The overreaction would be to say something like: “Not even Kobe and Shaq could win with these cats!” or “These are the playoff Raptors”. The team … Read more

Raptors vs. Sixers Series Preview – The Tightrope of Success

On a Collision Course The Toronto Raptors Philadelphia 76ers have quickly recovered after losing game 1 of the first round. Both teams won 4 straight games and have advanced to the conference semi-finals. On the same night where the Raptors took the Magic out of Orlando, the 76ers sent the Brooklyn Nets home for the … Read more

What About Joel?

//embed.sendtonews.com/player2/embedcode.php?fk=368kOPKF&cid=8816 After the second-seeded Toronto Raptors defeated the Orlando Magic in a 4-1 series in the first round, it was set that they would be facing the Philadelphia 76ers who are fresh off a 4-1 series against the Brooklyn Nets. In that series, we saw the creation of a new rivalry between those two teams. … Read more