Well that was an ugly game by the officials. I mean Raptors obviously came in with the attitude of making this a very physical game, since they had massive size disadvantage, but still the refs could have toned it down a bit.
I mean to illustrate our paint dominance, just check out this Raptors shot chart with red sprayed all over the paint:
And compare it to ours, which is just full of green and everything is packed right at the rim:
- It was obvious that just like last game, Raptors had absolutely no chance to beat us in clean half-court basketball. Their only chance was to beat us on 1on1 or transition, and they really didnt do that either, despite gaining 10 more points on the fast break.
- The Raptors didnt get almost any clean paint looks, and despite hitting their 3s and being successful foul merchants, they had to play super one dimensional ball on offense and whenever they didnt get the 3P looks or werent successful in drawing fouls, they came up empty.
- On the other end, we got what we wanted. Good spacing, good 3P shots (albeit we did take some bad ones as well) and the paint was just completely owned by us.
- Brice with his first NBA bucket and it was SWEET! Also love the fact that TH and Brice combined to shoot 3/4 from 3, and they seemed to have some connection between them.
I mean to illustrate our paint dominance, just check out this Raptors shot chart with red sprayed all over the paint:
And compare it to ours, which is just full of green and everything is packed right at the rim:
