10 issues: Raptors’ rally falls brief after dropping Barnes and Koloko

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Here are 10 takeaways from the Toronto Raptors‘ 112-109 loss to the Miami Heat.

One — The Toronto Raptors dug themselves too deep of a gap on the second night time of a back-to-back. Sure, the Heat had stretches of spectacular play, but it surely was the standard smoke and mirrors of zone coverages and swarming perimeter defence that the Raptors have seen many occasions. Miami has but to resemble the jap convention finalist kind they confirmed final season, however they’re skilled sufficient to not squander a 24-point lead within the third quarter.

Two — The Raptors had been abysmal on defence to begin, permitting 71 factors to the Heat within the first half. Miami performed good by leveraging Bam Adebayo’s measurement to tug further defenders inside, earlier than shifting the ball unselfishly to open shooters to beat Toronto’s rotations, however once more, that is what the Heat do each single time. At first, the Raptors had been capable of go shot-for-shot, however ultimately they hit their typical lull on offence, and it led to a string of sloppy possessions in transition the place the Heat had been capable of push the lead into the twenties. There had been additionally uncharacteristic errors made by the Raptors’ fundamental gamers throughout the board. Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet each fouled Kyle Lowry on threes, O.G. Anunoby bailed out Jimmy Butler twice with one second left on the shot clock with pointless reaches, and Gary Trent Jr. saved playing as an alternative of simply maintaining his man in entrance.

Three — The second quarter collapse coincided with Scottie Barnes’ ankle damage. Barnes was one of many Raptors’ brilliant spots early on, enjoying in entrance of household and mates close to his hometown, however was compelled to depart twice with accidents. First, a knock on the shoulder left with him with a contusion that he shortly returned from, however after a powerful drive to the ring the place he shed two defenders, Barnes landed awkwardly as he was undercut by Tyler Herro’s unusual cost try the place he jumped along with his palms down on the play. Barnes needed to be helped to the bench and did shoot a free throw after the timeout, however Toronto properly took the foul and acquired their star sophomore out to conduct additional evaluations. It’s the identical proper ankle that he injured previous to coaching camp.

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Four — The Raptors turned additional short-handed after Christian Koloko‘s ejection. Koloko changed Barnes within the beginning lineup for the second half, however discovered himself entangled with Caleb Martin on a easy boxout. Martin wrapped his arm round Koloko to pin down the larger participant, which led to Koloko dropping his stability as he jumped, and Koloko’s flailing arm caught Martin’s shoulder as he fell. Martin took this the improper method, balled his fists and stood over the rookie whereas barking at him, Koloko responded by getting up and shoving Martin out of his face, which was met with a deal with into the empty row of courtside seats earlier than they had been mobbed and separated. A prolonged assessment got here to the apparent conclusion of the ejection of each gamers, though it was shocking that Martin didn’t obtain a further flagrant foul for escalating the incident into the stands.

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Five — The struggle sparked the Raptors, launching a 17-4 run which reduce their deficit to single-digits. It’s onerous to hyperlink a direct correlation between Koloko’s ejection and an enchancment in play, however there was extra power and focus from the Raptors within the second half. Most of it got here on the offensive finish, because the Raptors constantly created beauty off drive-and-kick alternatives. Miami collapsed the paint on each time Siakam or VanVleet stepped contained in the arc, and so they made the precise performs to seek out open shooters. Taking higher pictures helped Toronto get set extra usually in transition defence, however they had been additionally simply exhibiting extra effort on the whole to get again. Miami managed to maintain them at bay, however most of their stops had been cases the place the Raptors missed open probabilities.

Six — Siakam didn’t even play all that nicely and nonetheless got here near a triple-double. Miami well compelled the ball out of Siakam’s palms following his 37-point outburst in opposition to the Nets, and did so in ways in which made him suppose. In addition to a pesky defender swiping at his dribble, the Heat additionally doubled from totally different spots on the courtroom to maintain Siakam guessing. He was additionally in foul hassle for a lot of the primary half, which restricted his aggressiveness in going to the basket for concern of Miami’s guards sliding in for fees. Siakam was nonetheless capable of generate high quality offence, nevertheless, as he and VanVleet mixed for 19 assists.

Seven — Precious Achiuwa put collectively his first strong outing of the season. There is all the time further motivation in going up in opposition to his former crew that gave up on him after only one season, however Achiuwa was disciplined sufficient to withstand the urge to showcase greater than what he may truly do nicely. Achiuwa was lively on defence, robust, robust in transition, and made good reads on offence to complete with 14 factors. He was at his greatest within the second half, the place he knocked down a nook three and made two pictures in brief clock situations driving into the tooth of the defence for brief jumpers below management. Achiuwa is simply too gifted and too vital to the Raptors to play as badly as he did within the first two video games.

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Eight — VanVleet in some way managed to play 20 minutes within the second half with 5 fouls. His fourth foul was cheesy however regrettable, as he was pressuring Jimmy Butler 90 ft from the basket, but it surely wasn’t as egregious because the fifth foul the place VanVleet was vertical on his closeout whereas Lowry kicked his legs ahead. Even when Nick Nurse known as for a assessment, the officers nonetheless upheld the decision which put the crew in a bind as they wanted VanVleet to spark any hope of a comeback. To his credit score, the savvy veteran was capable of end the sport whereas additionally being as pesky as ever on defence.

Nine — Anunoby continues to provide poor outcomes when requested to create his personal shot. Through three video games, Anunoby is averaging 7.7 drives per sport and whereas he’s passing out of half of these drives, he’s solely taking pictures 18 per cent when he tries to complete. Surely he gained’t stay as shaky all 12 months, however he additionally shot simply 35 per cent on related quantity final season. The tape from this sport isn’t fairly, as he was blocked twice by a weak defender in Max Strus, and shanked a layup onerous off the glass on a careless spin transfer round Herro. Anunoby has sufficient energy to barrel his method to the sting of the paint, however there’s each a scarcity of explosion and a predictable nature to how he assaults that limits his effectiveness. He is rather more environment friendly and efficient when he performs inside his ordinary function of catching and taking pictures for threes or leaking out in transition. VanVleet has given up a lot of his personal offence this season to get different gamers pictures, however Anunoby must ship outcomes with these extra probabilities.

Ten — It might be fascinating to see how each groups regulate for the rematch. The Raptors didn’t name observe on Sunday provided that it was a back-to-back, however each coach staffs might be pouring over the tapes to seek out small changes for Monday. For the Raptors, the largest adjustment will merely be to get again in transition, and to maybe present fewer double groups at Butler when he’s principally seeking to go. Nurse additionally subtly angled for suspensions in his post-game presser, saying that he “imagines there will be a lot more coming out of that” since gamers on Miami’s bench had walked over in the direction of the fracas.