It’s going to take some help from teammates and some inventive coaching schemes to contain Chicago’s two explosive scorers.
with the second non-playoff spring in three years and surely usher in substantial change to a franchise not used to having a season end so early.
Anunoby won’t be solely responsible for DeRozan but he is going to be the primary defender, as he always is against the opponent’s best player. It has worked well for the Raptors this season: In three games against his former team, DeRozan has taken only 26 shots in total, averaging about 14 points a game . If Anunoby and the Raptors can match that effort Wednesday, it will go a long way to propelling them to another do-or-die game Friday with the playoffs on the line.
“Can we make it tough over the course of the game and try to get some misses here and there and make sure we limit those misses to one-shot opportunities and all those things? That’s the big thing O.G. does.”
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