Raptors suffer disheartening, brick-filled loss in Boston & seem destined for the 9th-seed w/ Jamar Hinds

In Episode 1375, Sean Woodley is joined by Jamar Hinds (Raptors Republic) to break down the Toronto Raptors disheartening 97-93 loss to the short-handed Boston Celtics in a game that will probably cost the Raptors a chance at the all-important 8th-seed in the Eastern Conference Play-in Tournament. Off the top, Sean and Jamar dig into what went wrong for the Raptors in the game. Their offensive process was mostly good, and their defense was certainly strong enough to beat the Jayson Tatum-less Celtics, but Fred VanVleet's worst game since the Jakob Poeltl trade and a putrid night of outside shooting was what ultimately did in Toronto. Next, Sean and Jamar chat about the decision to play Precious Achiuwa over Jakob Poeltl late in the game, Nick Nurse's baffling decision to keep Pascal Siakam out of the game until there were just four minutes to play, and another stinker of a night from the non-Achiuwa members of the Raptors bench, a tale we've seen play out all to often this season. Lastly, they run through the Good (Pascal Siakam's excellent 28-11-4 effort, a killer early game sequence by O.G. Anunoby), the Bad (awful team shooting, Toronto's struggles dealing with Boston's double teams) and the Hmmm (Whether we can trust the Raptors at all to shoot capably in a play-in scenario, the Jeff Dowtin situation) to round out the show.

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