Okay, we are going to change up here because we thought it was gonna be such an awesome night of games with all these games with playoff implications

So didn't have time to finish research for the awards. We're gonna do that now on Sunday tomorrow

We're gonna do tentatively of course always subject to change our all defense teams worst team all defense

I and a bunch of other individual categories for defense

But we're just gonna do a little gamer tonight and then more importantly talk about where the playoff race stands

And do a little milbag as well at the end here. So let's start by just talking a little bit about some of the games that

Interest here the bad news is none of these games that mattered actually ended up being any good down the end

I want to start with Brooklyn and Toronto a

115 105 win for Toronto Pascal of Siacham paced the

Raptors with 28 points. Kauai Leonard had 26 the second half was very interesting strategically where the Raptors started pulling away and

Kenny Atkinson took out most of his starters went to a group with Spencer Dinwitty and

Ronde Hall is Jefferson at center that was going to switch everything so Kauai

Siacham those guys that ended up going one on one a lot that they actually slowed the Raptors attack a little bit with that approach

They also tried to go with that zone that didn't really seem to to work that well because the Raptors got up 38 3 point attempts

Went 40% at Siacham 21 field goal temps Leonard had 25 in there

The guys who were taking all the shots for the Raptors and then Sir Jibaka had 23 off the bench

Five of five from downtown. We've been talking about on the center rankings how Ibaka had been struggling from downtown

only 27% as of a couple of games ago and so on fire from midrange

But I think Brooklyn decided to let him shoot it and he was out sitting also in four offensive rebound

That's another place where the Raptors without really a great individual offensive rebounder the nets were so small at so many positions

That guys like Siacham who had five offensive rebounds Ibaka were able to get in and get the Raptors who despite the fact

They didn't shoot it particularly well up to a near 30% offensive rebounds for the game

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