It's almost a luxury for Fred VanVleet and the Toronto Raptors to have several days to prepare for just one opponent.
VanVleet and his teammates are spending two days at the OVO Centre, the Raptors practice facility, strategizing as Toronto gets ready to host the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the NBA Eastern Conference's play-in tournament on Wednesday. The winner of that game will go on to face either the Miami Heat or the Atlanta Hawks on Friday in the second round of the bracket.
No. 7 Miami hosts eighth-place Atlanta on Tuesday, with the winner officially becoming the seventh seed in the East's playoffs. Whichever team emerges from Friday's game will be the eighth seed in the conference playoffs, facing the NBA-best Milwaukee Bucks in the first round. "Just denying him the ball and trying to force out his catches as far as possible," said Anunoby on how to stop his good friend DeRozan. "Making him work for everything, make everything as difficult as possible.
Festivities will begin at the so-called Jurassic Park on Wednesday for Toronto's one-and-done game with the Bulls.
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