This one certainly wasn’t for the record books. The Raptors got killed by the Atlanta Hawks on both ends of the court tonight, and this one wasn’t pretty.
The Raps lost 100-77, and the absence of Andrea Bargnani continues to cripple the weak Raptor offence.
Dwane Casey started with the small starting line-up of Jose Calderon, Jerryd Bayless, DeMar DeRozan, James Johnson, and Amir Johnson once again, however at the half Casey switched to a bigger line-up.
Let’s get to the report card:
Offence- C
Positives
Overall, the team had a poor offensive game. Jerryd Bayless had a good start, but faded late. Gary Forbes had a decent game with 10, but was nothing special either.
Negatives
Just a bad offensive game in general for the Raps. The offence was distributed fairly equally, however they shot a terrible 37%. Pretty much, everyone was equally bad.
Defence- D+
Positives
James Johnson did very well on the explosive Josh Smith.
Negatives
If you thought the offence was ...
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PLAYERS:
Andrea Bargnani,
Dwane Casey,
Jose Calderon,
Jerryd Bayless,
DeMar DeRozan,
James Johnson,
Amir Johnson,
Gary Forbes,
Josh Smith,
Ed Davis
TEAMS: Toronto Raptors, Atlanta Hawks
TEAMS: Toronto Raptors, Atlanta Hawks
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posminfgm-a3pm-aftm-a+/-offdeftotastpfsttobsbapts
J. JohnsonF22:453-111-20-1-141340601117
E. DavisF38:284-60-02-4-32481204032110
A. GrayC26:214-60-00-3-222790111108
D. DeRozanG25:393-120-02-5-290000203028
J. CalderonG22:120-50-21-1-191127002011
R. Butler13:002-22-20-0-90330000006
J. Bayless26:495-122-52-2-1601113010014
A. Johnson19...
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