Raptors just don't get any respect... If those two games were wins though, I think Lowry would have gotten it. It's a shame. Imagine if Fields could hit some shots.
I was just saying he should've at least been considered. He wasn't even on the list of nominees. His stats were ridiculous.
One of their losses was basically just the refs looking at a possession call under video review in the closing moments of the game and still getting the call wrong. They should honestly be 2-1 right now.
It makes no sense. First, we don't have Raptors' pick anymore. Thunder has it now. Second, Raptors' pick is a guarantee lottery pick. If Raptors make the playoff this season, the pick will carry over til next year.
Lowry is more like a shooting guard and Lin is more like a true point guard now. Lin has a great court vision and very often make a long good pass. He also makes teammate around him better. I am wiatting for lin's jump shot back. Overall, lowry is better than lin now. But I believe lin has potential based what he showed in NY.
The higher you rise, the faster you fall, especially if you are chubby. Let's wait a bit more for Kyle Lowry. Has he really shown so far that he is making his team mates better, in terms of creating easy looks for them? His form has coincided with woeful shooting from DeRozan, Bargnani and Fields. He is obviously going to come down a bit, the question is how much?
<br> You're wrong. Lowry has excellent court vision and is a true point guard. He just has the ability to actually make layups unlike Lin so he also scores. Lowry is better than Lin now and will be better than him when it is all said and done.
He has shot over 37% from 3 two years in a row now. Its not a fluke. He obviously won't keep shooting 50%, but the guy is legit. He'll get paid in 2 years.
<br> This is what people don't understand. We're talking about a guy who has been consistently balling well for a while now. This isn't a sample size of 20 games. It's constantly playing well. That is not random chance. It's not luck. It's simply reality.
Its always hard to predict these things, but since he was viewed as underpaid and an underdog who was traded, then I think he'll be cheered.
Lowry is good enough to push what looks like a pretty crappy team to the 9th seed - that's basically what we want this year to minimize the opportunity cost of Harden. If Lowry pushes them to the playoffs, and the raptors implode 3 years down the road when the protections on the pick change, and get a super-high pick, Harden gets a lot more expensive.
Except the second paragraph reads like some sort of hyperbolic, completely implausible scenario. Generally, when a team reaches playoff caliber, they stay there with that same nucleus of players. The typical scenario is that a team flirts with the 7th or 8th seed and then matures into a playoff regular. This notion that the Raptors would lose Lowry and suck again, that DeRozan will regress, that none of their frontcourt pieces will ever work out--none of them--really? It's just silly. The East is terrible and will remain so. Relax. The pick will escalate from valuable to valueless as the seasons wear on. You will see.
