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RSS FeedsRaptors taking another route up the mountain: Arthur
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

20 october 2017 05:10:24

 
Raptors taking another route up the mountain: Arthur
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


It would have been nice to start the season against an NBA team, but you work with what you have. The Toronto Raptors opened their season against the Chicago Bulls, or some reasonable facsimile, and the result was promising if you didn’t look too close. The Raptors killed ’em, 117-111. Everything worked.Well, almost everything. At halftime Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan had five points on 1-for-6 shooting. There was some overpassing in there, as they tried to run the new move-the-ball, share-the-wealth offence. There were some old-Raptors-stars possessions, too: take the ball, attack, create. They didn’t work. Backup Fred Van Vleet did say the new system would be more challenging for Toronto’s stars than anybody else, and he appeared to be right. The lead reached 27 at one point, and it was never in doubt. The Raptors bench was an amusement park: veteran C.J. Miles made three-pointers like he was alone in the gym and trying new things; backup point guard Delon Wright slithered around, inventing passes, playing like the game was slow; rookie OG Anunoby showing that he is more than a bouncing superball. The bench was the unit that blew out the Bulls, and had a blast. Add starters Norman Powell and Jonas Valanciunas, gunning and grinding, and it was a blowout. Most everyone looked comfortable, really, except for Toronto’s two all-stars. They did combine for 14 of Toronto’s 25 assists. That’s good. DeRozan’s first field goal came with two minutes left in the third quarter, and he finished with a quiet 11 points, six rebounds and five assists on 2-for-9 shooting. Lowry was fine, but laid low: 12 points, nine assists, four rebounds, seven shot attempts. They didn’t carry the weight, but this is fine. It’s an adjustment. “(The young players) kinda stressed the same things last year about moving the ball and all those type of things, you just add a little bit more three-point shooting in there,” said ...


 
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