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Adrian Amos Jersey | Quote Reply | WASHINGTON — The name of the arena has changed since the last time the Toronto Raptors visited the Washington Wizards in the playoffs.
That is not all.
Three years after getting swept by the Wizards in the first round of the playoffs — with the final two games coming at then Verizon Center — the Raptors roll into Capital One Arena on Friday night with a 2-0 edge in the best-of-seven series.
“We had some tough experiences out there Ereck Flowers Jersey , especially in the playoffs, right?” Jonas Valanciunas told the Toronto Sun after Thursday’s practice.
In 2015, the No. 5 Wizards — led by veteran Paul Pierce — pulled off a what was a mild upset of the No. 4 Raptors, closing out the series with a 31-point rout.
This time out, the No. 8 Wizards, who played a large chunk of the season without point guard John Wall, were again thought capable of upsetting the now top-seeded Raptors, but haven’t shown evidence of that.
Toronto, meanwhile, appears comfortable being the hunted and are up 2-0 in a playoff series for the first time in their history.
“A few years ago, we had to have that (underdog) mentality, that chip on our shoulder mentality, or else,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey told the Toronto Globe and Mail. “So we’re growing Vonn Bell Jersey , I think our guys are developing a mental toughness that you have to have to be the favorite.”
The Raptors ensured the Wizards wouldn’t steal a game in Toronto by exploiting Washington’s defense for seven 3-pointers and 44 points in the first quarter of Tuesday night’s 130-119 victory. Washington, which trailed by as many as 23, pulled within 113-108 in fourth quarter before Toronto unleashed a 19-4 run.
DeMar DeRozan scored a career postseason-best 37 points on 14-of-23 shooting as Toronto shot 51.7 percent from the floor. Valanciunas added 19 points and 14 rebounds.
“We are shooting ourselves in the foot coming out to slow starts, allowing guys to get open threes, allowing guys to get those shots, allowing guys to get layups,” Bradley Beal told the Washington Post. “It has to be one or the other. We can’t give up 3s and layups, or we’re going to be down 20 in the first quarter.”
One bright spot for the Wizards was reserve Mike Scott, who had 20 points off the bench and was on the floor when Washington rallied.
Down 2-0, Washington coach Scott Brooks may opt to go with the 6-foot-8 Scott in place of 6-11 Marcin Gortat, who has struggled at both ends thus far.
“When we go small, Mike’s a guy that can shoot from the 3, and then they switch smalls on him, he can definitely score in the post Justin Coleman Jersey ,” Wall said.
The move could increase the inside advantage for a Toronto team that outrebounded Washington 48-34 in Game 2.
The Wizards could also use more offense from Beal, who is 11 of 28 in two games.
“That’s a little bit on him, a little bit on me, a little bit on John (Wall). We need him,” Wizards coach Scott Brooks told the Globe and Mail. “We’re going to have trouble beating this team if he’s not going to play better. And he will.”
Washington did not enjoy a strong home-court advantage this season, posting a 23-18 record at Capital One Arena, but Casey is ready for the worst.
“It’s going to be a hostile environment,” Casey told the Globe and Mail. “They’re going to be playing in a desperate mode, we’ve got to continue to be hungry, we’ve got to continue to go in with a fighter’s mentality to start the game as we did at home.”
In March, when the media representation and overall attention at the annual league meeting was far more intense, the NFL deliberately avoided the anthem issue. In May, with much less notice being given to the meetings as Memorial Day weekend approaches, a collection of middle-aged-to-elderly billionaires are attempting to end the problem in one fell swoop.
Prediction: It’s not going to end well.
Regardless C. J. Beathard Jersey , it’s going to end on Wednesday. Or, more accurately, the owners will craft a new anthem policy on Wednesday. Which will close one chapter and likely open another, as players, the NFL Players Association, plenty of fans, and many in the media push back against any effort by the league to taketh away that which the league previously has given. Eth.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Giants co-owner John Mara (who essentially runs the league) said Tuesday that further discussion regarding the anthem issue will happen on Wednesday. Mara also said that he expects a resolution.
Even if there’s a resolution, the issue will hardly be resolved. As previously explained, the NFL gave players the right to protest during the anthem, the NFL confirmed the right to protest during the anthem when Colin Kaepernick began to protest during the anthem in 2016, and the NFL reiterated the right to protest during the anthem when President Trump launched an all-out attack on the league and its players. How can the league simply remove that right unilaterally, with no negotiation, discussion Kelechi Osemele Jersey , etc. regarding the situation?
The fact that the owners reportedly are considering potentially clunky outcomes like letting the home team decide whether protests can happen (ensuring that protests will never happen in states where the fan base would be the least inclined to accept it) or imposing a 15-yard penalty on any team with players who protest confirms that owners still don’t understand why players protest — and that owners simply want the issue to go away, primarily to ensure that President Trump (a man for whom many of the owners privately and/or publicly have little or no regard) will simply leave the NFL alone.
But here’s the thing, NFL owners: He won’t. If you don’t change the rule, the President will periodically badger you for not changing it. And if you change the rule, the President will periodically rub your nose in the fact that you did.
“How about this one, folks?” he’ll inevitably say at a rally, somewhere. “They didn’t want to make the players stand for the national anthem but you know what? We made them do it. We did it. Together. If we can do that together, what else can we do? Or should I say, ‘What can’t we do?'”
There’s simply no easy path out of this maze for the NFL, but owners who are used to getting their way whenever and wherever and however they want it seem to think they can find one. They can’t. The sooner they accept this, the better off everyone will be.
And they only have themselves to blame. By making the players props in the effort to wrap The Shield in The Flag nearly a decade ago, the league made this mess by creating a right to protest. Whatever the next step, the NFL will be putting its big toe on a land mine.
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