Best 2024-25 Defensive Plays | Toronto Raptors | #NBADefenseWeek

Best 2024-25 Defensive Plays | Toronto Raptors | #NBADefenseWeek

left early at the end of the first half. Garland off the bounce. Oh, Brady Dick swaps it away. Maxi now on a hand off and shed breaks it up. Love it. Checks in for the Raptors. Chris Buchet was superb on a Wednesday night. Oh, Purle with a denial. They’ve gotten an opportunity to know each other, that’s for sure. Shane got a piece of it. Hobo back to Shen. The twohanded slam. Seeing action as a Sixer for the first time. UB clock down. Going to have to let it fly. Edwards. Here’s Randall. Dante Devincenzo. And a turnover. The 16th. Scotty. Turnover. Brown. Denied by Scotty. How about that? on the way up. Never quit after the foul on Buché. That’s going to be his first. Jarus Walker turns it over. Mo on the move after that first time out by Coach Sto. They’re playing with a burst of energy. Look at this right here. Scotty B picking pockets. Brady on the inside. The attack. RJ going downhill as we know he loves to do. who that time could not finish with a nice spin move. Bridges stripped by Jonathan Mo. Russell Davis and the block by Purle. Oh, Giannis up top. Barnes guards him. Giannis trying to get downhill. Dumble comes. Pass stolen. RJ Barrett and Barrett with the finish who is second in the league. Well, he’s deceiving. Great steal here by Quick. Quick up at the rim. Finger roll. Now if he made that one, Watson. Oh, great. He gets back the denial. How about that? And then knocked away by Rollins and it’s out of bounds off of Burle. They’ve won four consecutive. A little bit healthier. Yeah, that makes a difference in this league. The steel. Got it. The slam dunk. Raptor is doing a great job recognizing that zone and getting it right there with 250 80 rebounds and 100 plus assists on the season. James and Luca, the other two and strip. The Raptors have done an excellent job tonight defensively. Anthony Vancero over now to KCP and good anticipation by Scotty. Scotty with four points, nine rebounds. Pritchard in the corner. Hower back to Pritchard. Great close out by Walter. Pritchard attacking. Walter with the denial to make sure he’s on the floor not getting in foul trouble because he this is what he brings to the to the game. Another turnover by Orlando. Raptors able to collect two and Lopez gets it. Now here’s Lillard slithering his way in. Giannis trying the power game and Scotty with the denial. 14-point lead, largest for Toronto. Up top, Philipski puts it on the deck, spinning around. Scotty with the steel. And now he’s playing with the pick and roll, but should not allow him to be comfortable. There you go. Two plays in a row. Scotty using the size and the help defense coming along as well. RJ off balance. You have to communicate constantly. And you see Darko, he’s very intentional when he’s doing those things. Turnover lead pass to Scotty. Barnes leaves it for Walter. the slam dunk. Making a nice read in the delivery then holds up Jackson Davis in a jump ball and Sar able to handle the rebound of Middleton. An NBA title with a box and shed digs in takes it. Scotty the finger roll at the iron. Well shed he just picked the pocket. Here’s Buddy Heel. Puts it on the deck. Heel drive kick. They’ll swing. Oh, Scotty out on the perimeter. Swats it away for the six block. He’ll get it back. Bal Kulabali their secondyear guard and has missed the last seven games in shed being able to get to his spot and had to get on balance as he shot it. Harden attacking the denial by Abaji. Tremendous defense by OA just to reverse the ball a little bit, make the defense shift and get downhill. Good job by the Raptors. And it’s going to be an 8second violation. And look at Jamal Shed. the intensity defensively. The outlet to Brown. Spin dribble. Loses it. Grady diving. Oh, what a play by Grady Dick with a tighter rotation. Oh, the denial up top. Dick. The two-handed jam. Green get a switch. Trying to work on Mo. Momo so far. Good job. The spin and knocks it away. And already with eight offensive rebounds, the Blazers taken away by Abanchi. RJ finishes. Sends it to Shepard. Mo active defense by the Toronto Raptors. Very, very much so. Forcing seven turnover. You see that block right there getting out. Seven turnovers getting eight points on that. Up top and Apachi able to reach out with his left. Down by seven. This is the pressure. There you go. Eight seconds. The players that asked for challenges in their record with the challenges. Yakob takes it away. Pressure and Walter going for the steel. Yep. And another that’s a second time getting the possession, getting the rebound, pushing it up, initiating the offense. Here’s Keonte George and swatted away. A vicious denial. And here in the third, he has nine points. Had 16 in the first half. Well off the mark for Jaylen Martin. And Shed with the denial. Now you got to get your stops. 330 the third. The turnover. That is a tough, vicious foul. And Scotty, he’s making that catch regardless. Philadelphia, they’ve committed just like the Raptors by keeping their core together and letting them grow. He believes that continuity and focus on Here you go, Matt. 12 and nine rebounds with five assists. Iki, it was blocked now denied. that table right there. But I had so many things and then halfway I was like, “Oh, no. It’s too far back rim.” So, I mean, you live for those moments and opportunities. I mean, they it put you in really picked up his shooting all around the court overall this season. Keon Johnson has it denied by the active mobo.

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