DONALD DUCK!

Everybody is expecting an epic rant, a scorched earth, vein popping soliloquy about last nights loss. Well folks you're not getting one. My mind is in a good place I have a girl I like, I just haven't told her yet. My family is happy and healthy and God damn it Gaceru don't reduce this moment to everything in your life, there is so much more beauty and struggle to come. This loss was so bad I'm not angry I'm reflective, I'm thinking about all the times in my life something terrible happened and it turned out to be exactly what I needed to invoke change. We often know what we need to do, but it's usually the thing we're most afraid of. Deep down we knew we weren't a championship team, I think deep down we knew we weren't even a championship contender. There are many reasons but the main reason is our best players are outplayed by the other teams best players pretty much every series. I don't like to toot my own horn (unless nobody is home, and TMN is playing those weird soft core movies) but I said all these things 3 years ago proof is here. I know it's reactive to say fire Dwayne Casey and Demar sucks after a loss like this but I've been saying these things for years, the only difference now is I'm putting Lowry in there too. We need to clean house and if it takes a humiliating first round loss to the Bucks to bring on that change then Let's go Bucks! I know what some of you are thinking G's a traitor, a hater, a negative Nancy. If you look deeper I'm quite the opposite, I love this team so much I'm willing to be honest with my self. If your child hit a ceiling and you knew they could do better with a few adjustments and sacrifices from us as parents wouldn't you make those sacrifices??. But we are often too close "can't see the forest for the trees" they say. If your child did class assignments at an A level but crashed and burned every exam season this would be concerning right? You would change strategies, seek help, talk to your child etc.. You wouldn't continue to do the same bullshit and hope that the next exam is the one everything turns around? This kind of thinking is insanity is it not? Yet we continue to deal with the symptoms of our infected team instead of confronting the actual virus. We continue to prescribe cough medicine to a team in critical condition. And if your wondering what the viruses on this team are, here you go. It starts with Dwayne Casey and his primitive coaching style, a style that lacks creativity, unpredictability or adaptability. A coach creates the work environment culture and ultimately is responsible for ingraining the core values of the team. I have no clue what our core values are or what we hang our hat on. I bet it's a light switch though. Demar is a virus, a one dimensional player who resorts to panhandling for fouls when things get tough. A regular season A student who can't pass an exam. Kyle Lowry is a virus, a petulant leader with the tendency to lose his head in the playoffs. JV is a virus, the model of inconsistency, often strong armed by seemingly lesser competition while deciding when he wants to play hard. The ultimate big itty bitty baller. All other guys get a pass because they are interchangeable and are paid accordingly. We have a decision to make as fans, are we satisfied with just being a pretty good regular season team that shits the tent every postseason. Sorry I'm not great with expressions "cry me a table". Or do we want actual and sustainable change? Changing the windows on a house with a cracked foundation doesn't change the fact it has a cracked foundation, and Raptor fans we have a cracked foundation.

 Cheers G