Wow. Can't help but feel bad for Raptors even though this probably helps us a bit. They went all in and now it might have been for nothing as Lowry and Ibaka both go into free agency.
Maybe a bit of understatement lol. The second best team in the East just lost its best player for the rest of the season. That's huge.
IT is out?!?!?
Haha, Toronto owns us mentally. I just don't feel comfortable saying we're better (with Lowry healthy).
Not really fair to say that without mentioning the fact that we've been missing one of IT or AB every game with them this year. Even if individually they are better players, both of our backcourt members are just about as important as their backcourt members, and all of the games were really, really close still. Of course, both Lowry and Derozan missed a game apiece separately against us, but they had two games with both of them in there.
So I really see this matchup as a wash. Maybe you give them the slight lead at 51/49 or something like that, but when you factor in the fact that we will have homecourt advantage, I think it's a wash.
EDIT: Hell, we've been missing several players in most of our games with them this year:
Game 1: IT (Huge)
Game 2: AB
Game 3: AB and KO (Huge lack of shooting)
Game 4: AB and Green