Celtics (1-0) at Raptors (1-0) Game #2 10/19/18

[celticinorlando]

Here comes the Raptor hype....

[LilRip]

Bright side: Gordon Hayward looking more and more comfy out there. I’d say he’d look pretty great in about 5-10 games

[hpantazo]

Kawhi Leonard looks unstoppable.

Kyrie and Hayward have no answer for Lowry and Leonard.

Please just stop. You are getting tiresome.

Give the Raptors credit. They clearly outplayed us tonight, they earned the win,

We have a lot of potential to improve, Hayward and Kyrie will get much more in-synch, Stevens will fine-tune our lineups. Toronto, not so much. I think this is close to their peak potential. I believe we will be clearly the better team at the end of the season, but tonight they were better.

[ozgod]

It's game 2 of an 82 game serious let's not overreact 

[kraidstar]

Not a bad loss. Toronto is playing their first home game with Kawhi and the league wants to showcase them as a theoretical rival for us.

We are faster, more skilled, longer, deeper, have advantages at almost every position. Kyrie and Hayward are rusty, the defense needs work. All of this i fixable. Toronto's problem is not - that problem being that Lowry is their second-best player.

We faced a lot of adversity tonight and were decent until late in the 4th. Next game we blow them out, write it down.

[j804]

that 10-0 run killed us at the end. oh well, positives....Gordon looks faster, Uncle drew rounding into forum.

Not really. Kyrie looks bad missed tons of easy looks he always makes. Hopefully he gets it together soon

[Chief Macho]

i hate brown not playing.  kind of wish hayward wasnt signed at all.   

either way,  we actually do have too many players needing time.  wouldnt mind a trade.   subs are a mess and guys like smart and brown need to be on the floor.

[gouki88]

Kawhi Leonard looks unstoppable.

Kyrie and Hayward have no answer for Lowry and Leonard.

This is a truly bad take. Two guys coming off legitimate injuries that kept them out (unlike the guy who abandoned his team seemingly) aren't as in-shape as guys that didn't. Who would have ever guessed

One thing I didn't miss during the offseason were bad overreactions like this, lol. Kyrie is so superior to that flopping twit Lowry

[RGow8]

Is there a reason Brown didn’t play the last 7 minutes of the game? Rozier tossing up terrible shots Tatum playing horrible ya let’s not play our second best defensive permieter player for over half the quarter, very wierd.

Brown has been atrocious both games on both sides of the ball.

Agree to disagree sir, if he’s been bad then Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. was that by Rozier and Tatum. Brown plays good defense bottomline.

[SCeltic34]

Is there a reason Brown didn’t play the last 7 minutes of the game? Rozier tossing up terrible shots Tatum playing horrible ya let’s not play our second best defensive permieter player for over half the quarter, very wierd.

Poor minute management and substitution patterns by Brad.  MM played more minutes than Hayward, mostly because he started the 3rd in place of him.  He played both Smart and Rozier almost as many minutes as Brown, even though both were pretty bad tonight at least on the offensive end.  Brown wasn't particularly great either, but I'd much have rather had him to close the game than Rozier.

[gouki88]

i hate brown not playing.  kind of wish hayward wasnt signed at all.   

either way,  we actually do have too many players needing time.  wouldnt mind a trade.   subs are a mess and guys like smart and brown need to be on the floor.

Lol, seriously? Hayward is so much better than Brown. I guess if you didn't want wins, that would make sense. Smart and Brown were two of our absolute worst players today

[hpantazo]

That last offensive foul call on Morris was complete garbage.

[RockinRyA]

Is there a reason Brown didn’t play the last 7 minutes of the game? Rozier tossing up terrible shots Tatum playing horrible ya let’s not play our second best defensive permieter player for over half the quarter, very wierd.

Brown has been atrocious both games on both sides of the ball.

Agree to disagree sir, if he’s been bad then **** was that by Rozier and Tatum. Brown plays good defense bottomline.

Not this game. He's been horrible on D. And I say that as one of the strongest Brown supporters in this site.

[celticinorlando]

Kyrie needs to be more selfish. Period. And again, some of the line ups Brad put out there tonight were head scratching.

[CelticSooner]

Here comes the Raptor hype....

It's not hype. Kawhi makes them a much different team. Dude is fearless unlike the guy he replaced.