I have basketball fans of opposing teams for friends and they love to give me the gears following a Raptors loss. Following the complete embarrassment that was Game 3, my friends were eerily silent. Truth be told, they felt sorry for me that I had my fandom tied to a team that played like that in such a crucial game.
Not only did the Raptors humiliate themselves and the city of Toronto, they humiliated every fan that defends them in basketball circles. I repeatedly heard the Raptors were “overrated”, “soft as toilet paper”, and even that they “were going to lose in five”.