Was able to watch the Detroit game live on League Pass on Sunday, and caught up Tuesday evening with the Bucks win. The game at the Palace was a tough watch - long, lots of foul calls and breaks and the Raptors generally made hard work of it.
How great is the potential battle between Andre Drummond and Jonas in the coming years? If they stay in the same conference they'll see a lot of each other, and it seems at the moment that the Detroit big man has the better of JV. He seems stronger and more athletic and his big block on Jonas made me cringe a bit. Drummond caught the eye at the Rising Star challenge when he got MVP and stats-wise edges his fellow sophomore.
The Bucks just continue to be bad, there wasn't much to learn there. There wasn't much to learn from Greivis Vasquez's post-match "I wanna prove I can play" speech that he must practice into a mirror either.
Weirdly apprehensive about the events of this evening, when playoff seedings will settle. I guess the "ideal" scenario is a 3rd place seed versus the Wizards, giving the prospect of the Pacers in round 2 rather than the Heat and avoiding the Nets?
To be honest, I'd take any. I trust the coach to make adjustments needed for a play-off series against any of the three prospects - and the Nets could be a great series for the neutral fan too. It seems to me that experience of a playoff series is needed at some point, and I wouldn't put too much pressure on this young group to do serious damage anyway.
Tonight versus the Knicks it would make sense to rest DeMar and manage the minutes of Kyle and JV, maybe let Mr Novak loose to send some three-bomb reminders to his former team and have a healthy starting 5 for the weekend.
Let's Go Raptors
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