Fans React To Raptors Securing Play-In Tournament Spot

On Sunday, the Toronto Raptors secured a spot within the NBA play-in match with a straightforward 128-108 win over the Charlotte Hornets.

The win put them into ninth place within the Japanese Convention, and since they’ve the identical 39-39 document because the eighth-place Atlanta Hawks, they’ve an opportunity to maneuver up additional within the standings within the coming days.

This may give Toronto a shot at making the playoffs for the ninth time within the final 10 seasons.

Followers on Twitter have been comfortable whereas wanting the group to maneuver as much as the next seed.

Raptors forsure making playoffs, no group desires em in playoffs .. presumably top-of-the-line 7/8 seed group ever !! Their document doesn’t do justice of their potential

— Net TV (@webtvstreaming_) April 3, 2023

They gone take that eighth seed..!!

— T_Lipp (@Tony_Lippett14) April 3, 2023

Nevertheless, these followers don’t suppose the Raptors will go anyplace ought to they win the play-in tourney.

Getting bounced in spherical 1 🔥

— GOAT (@GoatGooat) April 3, 2023

And 1st spherical exit

— ً (@_nuh_uh) April 3, 2023

One might imagine that for the reason that Raptors solely have a .500 document, they merely aren’t a very good group.

Nevertheless, don’t let that document idiot you.

They possess a very good quantity of expertise for a group that has a mediocre document, to not point out numerous size.

Their greatest participant is 6-foot-9 large man Pascal Siakam, who got here into Sunday averaging a career-high 24.1 factors a sport, and he earned his second All-Star nod this season.

Level guard Fred VanVleet continues to place up sturdy numbers with 19.7 factors and seven.0 assists per sport this yr, whereas two-way wing OG Anunoby has had one other sturdy season.

The Raptors even have loads of hope in second-year ahead Scottie Barnes, who was averaging 15.7 factors, 6.9 rebounds and 4.9 assists a sport coming into the sport in opposition to the Hornets.

Maybe they gained’t stand an opportunity in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks or Boston Celtics within the first spherical of the playoffs, however they may make both contender work to place them away.

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