Tip is at 8pm.
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No Rick Kamla…already a plus.
Davis gets the start tonight, as does Nichols. POB Ukic and DeRozan round it out.
O’Bryant continues to rely on the outside jumper.
DeRozan off to a slow start. Missed a wide open shot and now an unforced turnover.
Ukic playing well thus far. Attacking the rim, playing with more energy than the first 2 games.
Toronto needs to attack Portland since it’s their first SL game.
Bayless with a beautiful lob for a dunk.
Raptors have no defensive stance down low. Portland attacking at will.
Bayless with 3 assists in 5 min, Cunningham 8 points.
O’Bryant leads Raptors scorers with 4 pts, Portland up 11-6
Bayless, please meat Roko Ukic….he will be your bitch for the night.
I know you will find this shocking, but almost every trip down the floor, the Raptors are settling for outside shots.
Pendergraph with a NASTY putback off the offensive board.
Portland up 17-9, 3:39left.
Douby in for Ukic. Angels sing, nymphs dance.
Petway attempts a dunk but is fouled on his way to the rim. Would have been nasty if he had hit it.
Steal by Douby, pass to Petway in traffic for the dunk. Raptors close the gap to 17-12.
DeRozan drives and finally lays one in for his first points of the game, 9 minutes in.
Taggart pulls down the board on the defensive end and nails the outside jumper on the other. 19-18 Portland.
Wow, the defenders in the key for the Raptors open up like Paris Hilton at the Sky Bar.
End of 1: Toronto 20, Portland 19
Taggart finally lays some lumber on the Blazers at the start of the second quarter.
Taggart promptly outhustles 3 Blazers on the offensive end as well and scores the rock.
Douby with the nice shake on Bayless, but misses the gimme.
Bayless is just insane. Nice cuts and always with the head up.
Nichols with a bad foul on a 3pt shot.
Portland up 29-22, 8min left in the 2nd.
Taggart with another jumper. Pops who?
DeRozan doesn’t close out his man, giving up an easy jumper.
Douby attacks for the and-1. Amazing since it appears his feet are actually longer than his legs. Bizarre.
Douby does exactly the same thing again..attacks the hoop for an and-1. Misses it, but forces a turnover and it’s back to the Raptors.
DeRozan passes well out of traffic then follows a shot for the tip-in
32-31 Toronto, 6min left in the 2nd.
Commentators are tearing O’Bryant a new bunghole. Critical of his lack of hustle and effort.
Ukic’s alley oop attempt to DeRozan is broken up.
Nichols runs the break but no Raptors are with him, so has to pull up. Flashes of last year. Next trip down the floor he hits the outside jumper with ease.
O’Bryant has absolutely no lift. None. I have more when I reach for the cookies.
Roko and Nichols run a nice screen and pop. Ukic hits the 3 and then commits a foul.
Roko looks like he is taking this Bayless bitchslap to heart again. Raising the bar a bit.
Toronto up 43-42.
Roko has travelled 3 times already and has only been called for it once.
Full court pressure by the Blazers. In summer league. Wow.
Now a double technical. Man. Is there a trophy on the line??
DeRozan with a nice dish to Ibekwe who is fouled hard from behind and taken to the floor. All Raptors go to his aid, something missing from the team last year.
Roko to Petway who had a wide open lane, stretching the Raptors lead to 4 in the waning seconds of the 2nd quarter.
Ukic misses a deep 3 and Petway barely misses the putback at the buzzer.
End of 2nd: Toronto 48 Portland 46
Leaders: O Bryant 8pts, Taggart/Davis/DeRozan 3 Rebounds, Douby 3asts
I would be remiss if I didn’t point out: Bayless 15pt/4ast, Cunningham 14pts 3boards.
If defence wins games, this should be a blowout for the Blazers.
Raptors and Ukic running the break much better in the early 2nd half.
POB does a poor job of making himself available for the pass. It’s almost like he doesn’t want it.
If the Raptors are playing lockdown D in the paint, then Bayless has stolen the combination.
DeRozan grabs the defensive board and goes coast to coast, drawing contact and the foul. Nice play.
Roko attacks, draws the double, dishes to POB for the dunk. There all night, for the record.
58-56 Toronto, 4min left in the 3rd.
Nice steal and bounce pass by Roko, ruined by the inability to finish.
Petway with a poor foul on Cunningham putting the Blazers at the line for the chance to take the lead.
O’Bryant has committed 2 goaltends and one in-the-cylinders….
Once again, DeRozan has settled down immensely in the second half.
Douby is playing hard for a roster spot. His passion and desire is everything that Roko needed to show up with and didn’t.
One thing with DeRozan: he really needs to work on his close-out. Flashes of Jamario Moon.
First really bad possession by Douby results in an easy bucket for Portland and the lead at the end of the 3rd
Portland 66 Toronto 64 end of 3rd
Douby with a spot up 3 in transition. Sexy.
This game has become ugly pretty quick. It’s like watching a pick up game at your local catholic highschool…..for girls.
Toronto up 75-69, 7min left
Alex English calls DeMar aggressive, happy with that. Needs work on his jumper, great job running the floor. Changing his game to answer defensive pressure will be key. DeMar doesn’t need to shoot 3s to be a difference maker.
Alex says Douby is a real hard worker and has been busting his hump in Vegas.
Alex thinks we will be a factor in the east. Hedo is a great addition to the starting lineup. We are contenders if we put the work in. Triano did a great job of explaining what needed to be done in the last part of the season, hence the improvement and 10-6 run.
NBA cut handchecking out to allow the offensive player be more entertaining, unlike in Alex’s era. The game was more creative in his day on the offensive end.
Coaches look for certain things from each player in summer league. Most coaching is on the defensive end.
Need POB to block shots and be more aggressive. Want to see him be a force and he could be instrumental if he works hard. He doesn’t have the stamina as yet though.
Smush is being used to show the younger guys how to run things. He has the night off tonight to let the other guys play some big minutes.
Wants to see Roko take over a game like Jose does. He needs to manage the game better. Has improved his 3pt shot over the summer.
DeRozan is a solid kid and will put his time in. He will be a big plus, a nice kid, a sponge. Doesn’t make the same mistakes twice.
Roko shot 18% from 3 last year, but his confidence is much higher this summer. Needs to just shoot. Spent a lot of time on his technique. Used to shoot coming down on the shot, but now shoots going up, a vast improvement.
It takes commitment to run the ball. Must also play a great defensive transition game to be successful.
POB misses a dunk…badly.
Pendergraph dunks over POB and does a little posing.
Douby hits another long distance three ball.
Raptors up 88-78, 1:40 left.
Petway commits a blocking foul by clearly standing in the semi-circle
Portland using intense pressure with a minute left.
Raptors shooting over 50% from the floor. 50 points in the paint.
Attacking the rim and running the break so much better in the second half…like night and day.
Raptors having great trouble with pressure D at the end of the fourth. Very disjointed.
Raptors win 92-87
Douby entering 4th season concentrating by playing the point. Looking for his own shot and also to pass. Douby is turning the corner. Loves the game, won’t give up on himself and wants to show he deserves to stay. Hard in Sacramento having 3 coaches. Triano more patient and is giving him confidence and the passion to work.
Leaders:
Douby 20pts
Douby 5 assists
DeRozan 6 boards
DeRozan played 34 min, O’Bryant 29, Ukic 24, Nichols 24.
Toronto had 17 turnovers, 8 steals, 32 boards (12 offensive), were 13/21 from the line and 3 of 8 from 3.
Portland had 19 turnovers, 9 steals, 35 boards (13 offensive) were 26/32 from the line and 3 of 15 from 3.
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Waive O’Bryant. Doesn’t even jump for rebounds.
He barely made the rim on that breakaway dunk.
if he was 2″ shorty he would be in europe already.
if it wasn’t for colangelo, he would be in europe
POB is Borderline RT
I think his vertical leap is negative.
LOL almost spit out my food!!!
He’s looked awful so far…I suppose if you are trying to make a roster there is no excuse coming into summer league out of shape or unmotivated.
I still don’t know think Bayless deserved to fall as far as he did in last year’s draft.
The kid’s got game.
Bayless is pretty scary, he is Monta Ellis scary at times and if he is a 6th man of the year, Indiana fans will jump off tall buildings knowing they traded him away.
POB a wasted roster spot.
We should waive him and bring in Pops at 1.5 million. Even if that puts us over the cap, he alone would make the bench much better and add alot of overall team depth. We can afford a bit of tax, I’d say Raptor revenues will be up almost certainly this coming year.
If we need to rough up some backups, having Reggie and Pops would be an obvious choice.
I wonder how soon Colangelo will offer Rasho a contract after watching POB play. It only took him two games of watching Ukic to jump the gun on Jarret Jack. Will 3 games be enough to practically beg for Rasho to come back (while only offering him the LLE)
Raptors Win! Raptors Win! When is the parade?
For real, when do you think POB’s TOD will be (time of death) on Toronto’s roster? I saw one summer league game live and have read the recaps here for the rest and he just sounds like a sorry, sad case of shit. I’d rather have Jarret Jack play centre than him at this point since Jack’s being talked up as such a versatile player.
sorry *Jarrett*
Now we found out why Don Nelson and Doc Rivers didn’t want to taint their careers by having POB on their roster. Why the hell was this guy drafted in the 1st round at the first place by a team that completely was running on Nelly-Ball?
Wow the difference between the first and second halves was really quite amazing. Early on it looked like Portland was just going to crush us. Somehow the Raps flipped a switch at half-time and came out like a different team. They definitely deserved to win tonight.
O’Brian is still too soft. His lack of energy and focus is very disappointing, especially defensively and rebounding. The guy just does not jump. To his credit he played much better in the second half. He stopped taking long jumpers and played with a lot more energy.
Derozan did pretty well, especially on the glass. To get six board out of your SG is always a plus. He too picked things up after the half. He was much more aggressive. I believe that all six of his freethrows came in the second half. His defense was pretty awful though. On several occasions I saw him leave his man wide open and close without much intensity when the ball went that way. To me he looked tired.
Douby may hog the ball too much, but he did more with it than any other Raptor. He is clearly the best shooter on the summer league, yet he also showed decent driving skills. He also managed to finish with the most assist on the team. Defensive he did a good job containing his man and even rebounded the ball well. He is really starting to make a case for some playing time next year.
Ukic looked awful in the first half and like a legit backup PG in the second. Much quicker and better decisions with the ball. He even showed a solid shooting stroke. Amazingly he didn’t even get blocked once.
The last player that really had an impact tonight was Petway. He was aggresive and active on both ends of the court. He threw down some monster jams, one on a fast-break alley-oop was very impressive. He’s the one guy that I could actually see making the roster, not counting the players that are already under contract. Unfortunately there really doesn’t seem to be a roster spot for him. As the Raps really need a legit backup center and really only have room for one more forward on the roster.
As much as it’s only summer league, it was nice to see a Raptor team take over in crunch time and get the win…
Not sure about your crunch time comment.
Raps were outscored 9-6 in the final 2:30 and had a hell of a time fighting the pressure put on by Portland. It was ugly ball down the stretch.
Petway has talent but I cannot see him in the NBA, at least not as anything more than a Voskuhl type. He is out of position quite a bit and does a lot of garbage work, which look pretty and make a hilight reel here and there, but not worthy of a roster spot of any consequence.
After watching POB play, i think we should give Jawai a chance to show what he can do. I would sent POB to the Mavs instead of Jawai, their salary are similar right?
Jawai is awful, check out his box score from the Mavs game.
no, POB was a high-first-round pick and is still on that contract.
On a side note it was nice to see my fellow ASU allum, Pendergraph, show that he has a solid NBA game.
I’m scared of demar’s potential never being fulfilled similar to Joey Graham. There is nothing wrong with being a productive role player with a winning team but looking at these guys’ bodies and athleticism it seems like a shame if they don’t put it together.
I’m going to miss Joey’s highlight dunks and the times he muscled people in the paint, when guarded by smaller guys, of course coz he often failed miserably trying to back down 4s in the paint.
That was his only go to move – crowding the paint with a ‘pin-down’ of a bigger guy, when teammates were looking to drive to the cup.
I still like him better that Barnes though.
Hope Derozan is more of a Josh Howard caliber player, coz no matter what we have around him, we’re gonna need his athleticism and driving to push us to the playoffs.
Nightmare scenario – our stars get injured, miss games and play injured for double digit games.
Dream Scenario – we’re the Orlando Magic and Denver Nuggets of 09-10
I’m scared of demar’s potential never being fulfilled similar to Joey Graham.
Joey had 4 years. Demar has had three games. Joey had three years of college. Demar had one. Give the kid a chance before you become scared of him not fulfilling anything.
Yep, couldn’t agree more. It sure is a gamble at some point (and all gambles are scary…), but Demar has the potential to well overpay that bet if he develops correctly.
We’ll have a more clear idea at the end of next season.
Can the Raps waive POB without paying his whole salary. I seem to remember it was partially guaranteed up to a certain date. Anyone know the details?
Pretty sure its half mil guaranteed. No outs.
I think the Raptors are on the hook for O’Bryant’s full salary at this stage. Supposedly, his contract became fully guaranteed after he wasn’t waived shortly after the regular season ended. Not 100% sure, but I think that’s the situation.
I’ve seen mixed reports on Douby’s contract. I wonder if he’s guaranteed or not.
I know PBO’s contract is patially guranteed or does anyone know if the gurantee has kicked in yet???
Does anyone know the terms of his contract?
The guranteed part?
And when the deadline would be??? and to waive him we would get to save save ________$$$$$??????
Could you please let me know.
Thanks in advance!!!!
As much as I love the moves so far in the off season there is still some dead weight. I hope we can trade/waive some of it:
POB
George
Banks
Maybe Ukic
Maybe Douby
Clearly we can’t rid ourselves of all…..but maybe 2 of them….. The others can and should be told to get real confy in a suit.
We desperately need back ups at the:
Small forward spot and the Center spot.
Delfino/Rasho by the sound of it.
However I really like our guard rotation of Jose/Jack/Derozan much more then Jose/Ukic/Parker/Kapono that we had to start last season.
In fact dare I say:
Derozan/Jack/Calderon = One of the best 3 man backcourt rotations in the East by the end of the year.
Derozan wins Rokie of the year over B Griffin in a LANDSLIDE…. OK it will be close but I am taking Derozan.
GO RAPS!!!
O’Bryant is fully guaranteed at $855k for one year.
Exchanged an email with Grange a while back who said it was 500K.
So if we waive him Today would we save any money/cap space???
I would rather have Pops over POB or even a min salary big.
POB looks like Lauren Woods but Woods had more D….
You’ll save a roster spot, that’s about it.
The min salary is around 800k no?
I think its 500K guranteed but if he is waived by date X (which may have all ready happened) I believe he is on the hook for 1.3ish in total.
Shamsports have his salary listed at 855K but says nothing about the gurantee so who knows.
Like MLSE would foot that cost. That’s wishful thinking.
the raps did not waive his option by the deadline so he’s fully guaranteed close to 1 Mill this year, as per Doug Smith’s blog.
my fault. time flies. either way, he seems to be receving more than we should be giving him.
That’s for sure!
O’Bryant is on a min salary for 1 year at $855k, now guaranteed. Prior to being guaranteed there was a $500k buyout option, which is now past.
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