I agree, the series was terrible. I had Miami in 6,but every game was boring, slow and sloppy. I don't think anybody outside of Canada cared about this series tbh.
The whole Eastern conference is a joke. Cleveland at - 1100 to advance vs Toronto, 2 consecutive sweeps and Miami vs Toronto just shows the quality.
Raptors fans have always been a joke, at least the ones who pop outta nowhere in April. They boo former players years after they've left, call on Casey to be fired despite leading them to their best ever finish and always claim that there's a conspiracy against Canada teams when they lose.
I can understand the hype of getting to the East finals, but I even have some fans telling me today that Toronto has Cleveland in 6. Utterly deluded.
Toronto probably has the highest percentage of bandwagon fans I've ever seen. Raptors fans are non existent until TSN lets the public know that they've made the playoffs. Nobody cared about the Jays, then last fall I could walk one km without seeing some clown in a Blue button up and fitted. Even when the world Cup rolls through, everybody suddenly has a Brazilian or Spanish relative.
I don't know how it is in other cities, but over here the fans don't know shit outside of Hockey. Raptors will get no more than 1 game off Cleveland. They'll then lose a couple key players in the summer and get overtaken by The young Celtics and Hornets.
Are you forgetting that the raptors key players were banged up too? JV got hurt and he was the dominant big man in that series, Lowry has been having elbow problems, and derozan had thumb problems as well, Caroll hurt his left hand as well... I agree there's alot of bandwagon raptors fans, but that doesn't discredit the raptors for getting this far
Lol they lost game 1 in Cleveland without one of there best players and coming off 2 game 7s and multiple over times, I don't know one raptors fan who thought we'd beat the cavs in this state... Since when does getting 2nd place in the east for an entire season then making the conference finals make you shit or overrated lmao they have a young squad with a bunch of young talent and a top 3 gm in the league who's your team ? Let me guess cavs or golden state #bandwagonticketsonsale