Monday night edition of the Dunctime Basketball Podcast got three games to get to an also interesting question that was posed on my short version of the Twitter MBA show that I did without Danny today.

Could you pick a team out of all of the non-playoff teams that could be Golden State in a series or in a start off here with Toronto Milwaukee then do Washington Atlanta and finally Golden State and Portland.

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Let's get started here with a Toronto Milwaukee game that felt very much again in similar fashion to game for but even more so like Toronto really restoring order in this series and for the first time really in this series we saw the incredible offense that was so good the first half of the year for the rappers.

This was much closer to what optimists would hope for from Lowry and to Rosen both of them were in high you know high teens which is enough considering the performance they got from everyone else and then the other star of this game to me I mean we should talk about a bucket too but norm pal was great and he not only the highlight down but I just thought he made a consistently positive impact and just reflects what the Raptors need a lot more in a small forward than what they were getting before.

Powell 8 of 11 from the field 25 points in this one hit four four on three is not seven of seven on three is over his last two games and really he just provide so much more force and athleticism in a way that really the box for all their length can't match other than you know they don't have anyone with his level of quickness in the back where his ball skills really have improved he's fine attacking and picking roll attacking off a close outs not a great pass or yet he threw a few passes away.

But on his way to four turnovers but like there's one play in transition where he got a steal and he just out ran like three box and got it and they had and got an and one middle to the particular looks like he's absolutely in quicksand trying to play against Powell in this one and it's amazing considering he was out of their rotation entirely not only the end of the season but at the start of this series and he's certainly a talented guy I had been harping on him not playing enough because I think he's good and I didn't expect him to be a to perform as high at a high level like he's not going to be a good player.

He did today but still a talented player and it was true last game too but Surgebox is defense especially in the like for me I don't know why it was the first half that stuck out to me but I thought that was the best stretch for him.

Yeah the beginning of the first and third quarters he had a stretch where he blocked the honest twice at the rim and dunked on him twice in like a four minute period.

Yannis had a nightmare start he started one for six and then he proceeded to make twelve of his next 13 field goals on his way to 30 points three steals three blocks nine rebounds but it really was too little too late the bugs were never really able to get back into contact after a first quarter in which their out scored 31 to 20 they went down by 20 quickly against the Lowry plus bench unit their second unit they went back to Merza to let of it you did hit a three but again was overmatched defensively and when they hit the ball

defensively and when they had Greg Monroe Terry and to let of it all in the floor that was really a problem and row did not play as good defensively as he has earlier in the series and they really tried to take advantage of him once again with very high screens and then the

Bucks defense also just was doing some weird stuff to like they were basically started doubling to Rosen like whenever you put the ball in the floor at times and then he would just throw a pass to someone who was wide open and they would just score like it was really you know it wasn't like they're even doubling off the pick and roll and they weren't

doubling at a time when you know he'd beaten his initial defender he was just kind of working to a spots in the mid range and well I know he can be effective on those shots at times being that freaked out about him taking a contested

B-Rainz J that you're going to just give up a wide open three or you know give him just an easy one pass away look to start the spacing train rolling and swing swing and you get it another great shot so I thought that the Raptors 28 assists I mean this is a team that despite

being a great offense had you know record low number of assists for how good they were offensively and for them to get 28 assists Lauri had 10 to Rosen 6, Paul 4 among their

leaders and then a bunch of other guys had some as well it was really a big time regression from the box defense that had so

stymied this Toronto team in games one and three yeah really even in game four as well you know they only had 87 points in game four to

true and Toronto wait it was one of the things that we were going to watch this entire postseason was the idea of whether they could

combine a steady or offense I mean not maybe not even the off what they had the first six weeks of the year when they were just killing

it when they're actually number one in offense and the defense they showed in the second half and I don't think

they're ever going to get all the way to doing to coupling both those things together but this to me top to bottom seemed like the

closest they've gotten at any point during the season yeah they did I mean they played excellent defense as well holding the box to

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