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Toronto Raptors |
| RJ Barrett 32 MIN, 25 PTS, 9 REB, 6 AST, 1 STL, 9-18 FG, 3-7 3FG, 4-5 FT, 0 BLK, 0 TO, 15 +/- His offensive aggression was drawing heaps of fouls early. His numbers didn’t show it (until he hit some triples later, at which point the numbers popped off), but most possessions on which he didn’t touch the ball were wasted. His shooting was absolutely necessary, too. In the second he threw a perfect pocket pass to Murray-Boyles for a dunk. At the same time, defensively he was getting beaten pretty badly early, but he cleaned it up very well and even was getting some deflections. |
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| Scottie Barnes 31 MIN, 28 PTS, 6 REB, 4 AST, 3 STL, 11-17 FG, 0-2 3FG, 6-6 FT, 2 BLK, 2 TO, 30 +/- Barnes brought the ruckus. He was clearly looking more aggressively for deeper touches than he found against the Timberwolves, as he drove as deep as he could on his first touch, which led to a missed spinning push shot off glass. The results became much, much better after that. After his first rest, his defence was preposterous, stealing skip passes, holding up in the paint, blocking shooters, and altogether forcing the Magic into the mud. His help on Wagner was excellent. His jumper was way off, so he just tossed in everything inside the arc. In the second half he just went for haymakers, hitting an and-1 jumper over a smaller defender, then driving for a layup, and tossing in long layups off the glass in transition repeatedly. |
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| Jakob Poeltl 10 MIN, 2 PTS, 2 REB, 0 AST, 0 STL, 1-1 FG, 0-0 3FG, 0-2 FT, 0 BLK, 1 TO, 11 +/- The defence really wasn’t there. No ability to cut off the ball without opening up fields of space for passes behind him. Just not mobile, big, or long enough to effectively hold up against two-on-ones at the moment, and drop coverage necessitates guarding two players for a few beats. He also was getting shelled on the glass. He got yanked early with foul trouble, but it wasn’t a bad thing for Toronto’s outlook. The Raptors eventually made a run, and Poeltl came back in, and the run ended. In the third quarter, he cut well for a floater from Barnes, and he grabbed his fifth foul 10 seconds later. He has had some positive moments despite quiet numbers at some points in some of Toronto’s other games. This was not that. Unacceptable game. |
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| Immanuel Quickley 29 MIN, 16 PTS, 3 REB, 7 AST, 2 STL, 5-15 FG, 4-8 3FG, 2-2 FT, 0 BLK, 1 TO, 26 +/- I loved his game, flat-out. Good passing — actual creation — and really aggressive with his legs hunting space for jumpers off the ball. Good shot prep on his first touch, drilling a movement triple. He later hunted a triple in transition, and in the third he cut off a Barnes touch in the middle for another. Followed that with a cut to the rim, dribble out, handoff, drive, and pass to cutting Barnes for a dunk. That’s extraordinary point-guard play. It wasn’t all perfect. He made some poor choices after that, especially in transition, and he took too many floaters. His 2-point scoring was stinky. He remained a huge positive offensively, and his defence was strong. He was very aggressive at the point of attack, which wasn’t always great, but did have some benefits. Great help here and there, quietly plugging breakdowns. Midway through the second, he fought over a screen, and immediately battled back into the play to break up a pass to the roller. |
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| Ja'Kobe Walter 28 MIN, 14 PTS, 5 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL, 5-9 FG, 3-7 3FG, 1-1 FT, 0 BLK, 0 TO, 13 +/- His defensive aggression has been a weapon early this season, but it was blunted against the size of Franz Wagner. It’s funny, he had a rock-paper-scissors thing going with his matchups. He was way too small against Wagner, and not sharp enough against Bane (who missed shots, but still got what he wanted to my eye in the matchup). But my god did he put a leash on Anthony Black. The shooting was enough on the offensive end. It wasn’t a standout game, but it was good enough. |
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| Kyle Anderson 5 MIN, 0 PTS, 0 REB, 1 AST, 1 STL, 0-0 FG, 0-0 3FG, 0-0 FT, 0 BLK, 0 TO, 1 +/- Garbage time, and I didn't pick up on anything in particular. |
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| Trayce Jackson-Davis 20 MIN, 6 PTS, 11 REB, 2 AST, 0 STL, 3-5 FG, 0-0 3FG, 0-0 FT, 3 BLK, 0 TO, 10 +/- He did what third-string centers need to do: hold the fort when asked. Had to play early because of foul trouble (and poor play), and he opened with an offensive rebound within moments. He actually won some fights on the defensive glass, and he had a few stops and popped in a floater. It wasn’t perfect, but he was the first Raptor to show a spine in the paint. He threw a great entry pass to Barnes over the top for a layup in the third, and he collected stops in the paint. He was dominant in garbage time, too, just for fun. |
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| Jamison Battle 20 MIN, 7 PTS, 0 REB, 1 AST, 2 STL, 1-4 FG, 1-3 3FG, 4-5 FT, 0 BLK, 1 TO, 15 +/- He held up in the rotation against a physical Magic team, and when he’s playable — and he was very playable defensively, with pokey, pokey hands — on one end, he’s gonna add on the other. He’s starting to play himself out of a specialist role and into a real rotation spot. |
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| Collin Murray-Boyles 15 MIN, 10 PTS, 2 REB, 1 AST, 0 STL, 3-5 FG, 2-3 3FG, 2-2 FT, 0 BLK, 3 TO, 3 +/- Misread the defence on his very first possession, leading to an unforced turnover and layup the other way. Another turnover on the next possession with a poor screen, later fouled a 3-point shooter. His second stint was much better, as he drew a foul on defence, then forced a turnover chasing an offensive rebound. Some nifty screencraft with Barrett to get him wiggle room in the paint for layups. Almost none of that resulted in numbers in the box score, but it helped the Raptors win minutes. He faded away in the second half again behind more fouls. |
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| Allen Graves 18 MIN, 3 PTS, 1 REB, 0 AST, 1 STL, 0-3 FG, 0-1 3FG, 3-4 FT, 0 BLK, 1 TO, 11 +/- He finds himself in the right spot a lot. He wasn’t finishing anything, and he even airballed a triple, but he stole offensive rebounds, stole passes, and the Raptors were making bank with those extra possessions. Rough, rough closeouts, though. If he is really going to drive winning, he’s going to have to find a way to score. |
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| Jamal Shead 23 MIN, 13 PTS, 4 REB, 7 AST, 2 STL, 4-7 FG, 1-2 3FG, 4-4 FT, 0 BLK, 4 TO, 8 +/- He was energy personified off the bench, which the Raptors desperately needed. He dimed a cutter, then stole the ball, which his teammate threw away, so he just straight stole it again right away. After airballing his first triple attempt, he made his next on a great extra pass from Battle in the corner. He might have made Toronto’s first contested transition attempt, which was a layup midway through the second. In the third quarter he hit a mid-range step-back jumper on a dead possession. |
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| Jaden Bradley 5 MIN, 0 PTS, 1 REB, 1 AST, 2 STL, 0-1 FG, 0-0 3FG, 0-0 FT, 0 BLK, 1 TO, 4 +/- He was exceptionally aggressive defensively, but he threw a garbage lob to Jackson-Davis in transition. |
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| Alijah Martin 5 MIN, 5 PTS, 1 REB, 1 AST, 0 STL, 2-3 FG, 1-2 3FG, 0-0 FT, 0 BLK, 0 TO, 3 +/- He has long been a real shooter in the G League, so it’s nice to see the shot port to the NBA, even if it’s just in garbage time. He dug into the ball on defence. I really think he’ll have a role at some point this season. |
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| Darko Rajakovic The Raptors came out extremely loose on both ends. Rajakovic did something because the switch simply flipped at some point, and every nut and bolt tightened. Rajakovic trusted Jackson-Davis with his two other bigs in foul trouble, and Jackson-Davis responded in a big way. Barnes and Quickley both had fantastic games. How responsible was Rajakovic for that? Hard to say, but Barnes looked much more comfortable with the way in which he found his touches within the flow of the offence. |
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