Official Thread : Raptors !

Great defensive win by the Raptors...

but look at this:
www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20191129_LAC@SA/

that kahwii is going to kill Doc Rivers and the Clips with his load management

leonard is not playing enough so his form is not up to a decent level. The Spurs beat the Clippers at full strength. Paul George played too. I took in a few minutes of that game after the Raps.

I saw Leonard struggling..stayed long enough to observe that he did not seem fully fit and in form..and that the way the game was going the Clippers would lose. DeRozan was hot killing them from mid range

Doc Rivers has a problem with Leonard. if he does not see it yet he soon will..he will fell it in losses. Leonard has to play..every night like the rest of the team. he is going to piss off the rest of the players who slave away every night. Leonard is getting paid more money than all of them and he is not required to work as hard and as long as they do. he is going to poison Doc Rivers team

the more I look at the more glad I am that Masai took his quick advantage and let Leonard go his way before he poisoned the Raps. where the Raps won a championships quick time Leonard will likely sink Doc Rivers team

Leonard spent his first seven seasons in San Antonio before demanding a trade.

He was shipped off to Toronto and won his second NBA Finals MVP last season

before joining the Clippers as a free agent.

the fact is the Spurs have no right to be beating up on the Clippers at this point. the Clippers are too talented and ready to win and NBA championship all being well. but clearly as was not well with the Clippers last night. the Clipers could do little with the Spurs, and DeRozan ran all over them

what the Clippers must do is to develop team chemistry, flow, fitness..a team: that is what they have to build out of the great parts they have assembled. but that cant and won happen if Leonard does not do his part. he must play basketball all season long so all the good things can be organized, shaped ans practiced

apart from Leonard Toronto had a well oiled team that Leonard was able to fit into and take his days off and it did not affect team chemistry. had he stayed it would have but he left and the Raps filled right back out, into Nick Nurses flow.

Leonard really pisses me off. I don't like people like that at all. Doc Rivers will have to get rid of him soon or he will smash the Clippers. Leonard is for himself alone. If I hire you you have to do what i say within the area of the hire. I am not asking you to do anything outside the hire..but inside the hire you have to play every god dam game we play

I am paying you more than all the other players..and the games are not even everyday of the week. at most there are 3 games a week..mostly just 2 games a week. why the frig cant he play every game and not be used up? makes no god dam sense

The 82-game season allows for each team to play their divisional opponents four times a year
six other teams from the same conference four times a year
the remaining four conference opponents three times a year
and the fifteen teams from the opposing conference twice a year.

NBA teams played 80 games each beginning in 1961-62.
The league added a game in 1966-67, bringing the total to 81
then ultimately settled on 82 games for the 1967-68 season

when the San Diego Rockets and Seattle SuperSonics joined the league.

www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/sports/basket...src=tp&smid=fb-share

Nearly every sports season is a physical and emotional grind — a marathon for players and fans.

The 30 N.B.A. teams each play 82 games from mid-fall through early spring
— and 16 of them make the playoffs, leaching some significance out of the regular season.

Why not play fewer games?

Shortening the season would certainly have an effect on N.B.A. economics.

Arenas accustomed to booking 41 games a year would be hurt.

Commissioner David Stern might have to take a prorated pay cut

I am talking about the NBA as it is..dat pays them guys serious millions. and for dat they all agree to the grind. deh all get compensated as best as possible for whatever that grind does to them..they all agree to it so far

now if Kahwii has a case against the grind that is the issue then..what is his case?

yuh see if you have a critique of the league then come out with it and fight for what you want by presenting your case to the league..players, clubs administration etc...to the public

that is not what Leonard doing. he forcing relief fuh he alone..and therefore hes is putting unrelenting pressure on those players who cant do the same as he. they have to share the load Kahwii is shedding by missing games. Kahwii is shedding the load unto his fellow team players...harming them.

that is why it will soon start to undermine the team stability..ensure that there will be issues that will make he team lose

I am pissed at Kahwii. I am pissed at Doc Rivers for not seeing what he agreed to with Kahwii..its full consequences. if Kahwii brings disunity and failure to the Clips..the Clips will be forced to get rid of him. and from then on I figure he will be drummed out of the league

what Kahwii has brought up is a case for the reduction of the grind..but Kahwii does not have the case prepared..is looking only for himself.but it is happening right in that mix

( ohjeez. I am losing it..why have I used so many words to describe this simple issue ..making it complex)

Exactly : all Doc Rivers doing is what Raptors created :

Kawhi Leonard plays a maximum of 60 outta that 82 ~

Simple not complex at all, at all

I had a few points to make but I was all over the place..cud not organize myself

look here:
12-15 on the roster..all man sign for 82 games.
if Leonard plays 60 games..approximate how long would each of those games take multiply by minutes divide by the number
of the rest of the players and add
simply 22 games are 22 hours by 60 minutes. but each game takes a lot more than 1 hour to play. you have to add all of that to the rest of the players..and more to those players who are likely to be on the court more than others

my argument that if it is important for Leonard to manage his load what about the others?

and if that is the case for the others too he is making it worse for them by shedding his load unto them. it is not only that Leonard manage his load..the minutes must be played..and by the rest of the team. they cant bring in mercenaries to play those minutes then they take off..

Leonard is paid more than the rest.... and he plays less. he is not shouldering his load

that I argue is going to create a problem soon enough...especially if as against the Spurs the Clippers lost and there was a clear fact on the court of Leonard not sharp at all..out of sync with the other players and bricking his shots most of the time