More than 48 hours and the Raptors will, like the 29 other NBA franchises, be finished with this 2021-22 regular season. One game, one game to play and a guaranteed place in the East: the fifth. New victory this night for the band at Nick Nurse, it was once morest the Rockets but it still counts, and the Dinos will therefore face the Celtics or the Sixers in the first round of the Playoffs.
The house stats of a well-training match, my faith, are right here!
Can we decently arrive better launched in the Playoffs than following having won eight of our last nine games? Technically yes, we can arrive in the Playoffs having won nine of our last nine games, but come on, let’s not be too fussy. Because this Raptors team is in full swing and the franchise that will be awarded the Dinos in the first round will have every reason to sweat hard from the inter-gluteal furrow. Why ? Because Pascal Siakam and his family have been in a pretty crazy mood since All-Star Break, and the game on offer is both enticing and downright creepy. This night the Rockets thus passed to the pan, at the end of a match which was not the most impressive of the troop however, but in the end the conclusion is the same: win, win and still yes. Gary Trent Jr. settled like clockwork and calling game seconds from the end of the game, Pascalou defending Alperen Sengun like a veteran on the last possession and the deal is in the bag, following having been led by… 24 points. The Rockets’ tanking is going well thank you for them, and in the end everyone is happy as the other would say, even if following investigation we still don’t know who this famous “other” is who we talk regarding so often.
29 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals for the best Cameroonian in the League this week, 26 points for Gary Trent Fils, the great outing of the Kevin Porter Jr. / Josh Christopher duo who came up empty and therefore this Canadian victory, which offers the 2019 champion franchise the assurance of finishing its regular in fifth place following the Bulls’ somewhat forlinguistic defeat once morest Charlotte. Fifth spopotte in the pocket and two potential opponents in the first round of the Playoffs: the Celtics or the Sixers. First major indication the Bucks are avoided, nice operation I believe, then the desire to say, then, that whatever happens the match-up will be delicious, once morest Jayson Tatum or Joel Embiid, once morest Jaylen Brown or James Harden . The Boston academy or the intriguing Sixers, in any case the series promises and in any case the Dinos seem able to pass the pitfall, without being the favorites of their series which will begin next Saturday or Sunday, following having subdued a bit of TV play-in, following shooting off their season’s fireworks tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden, handy for going out for a drink following the game.
8 wins in 9 games, 14 in the last 17 games, and a collective that seems to arrive at a hundred miles an hour in the Playoffs. There’s no talk of a title contender yet, but the Eastern itchy role will go down well with Nick Nurse’s men no matter who their first-round opponent is. And whoever he is, he may start to get a few gray hairs.
