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#Fast and furious games license#

вЂњHim just helping me change my game and play with that pace every possession since I came in, that was the main thing heвЂ™s been preaching to me, to play with pace, play up and down rather than side to side. вЂњHeвЂ™s been a great help for me since the day we connected and have been together,вЂќ said Banton of Watson. In BantonвЂ™s case, heвЂ™s been working with new Raptors assistant coach, and former 13-year veteran NBA point guard, Earl Watson since around the time of Summer League with a particular focus on playing with pace. Still, itвЂ™s not as if the Raptors are asking their players to slow down and have apparently been making pushing the pace a point of emphasis with a lot of their young players. While he sees benefits in playing fast on the offensive glass, cleaning up the defensive boards may prove to be tough if too many guys are leaking out looking for an outlet pass. вЂњI think that increased pace and increased possessions will obviously lead to higher turnover numbers, but I think itвЂ™s another one of those stats that if you want to keep living in 1975 where if you just keep looking at the total number of points regardless of possession, the total rebounds or total turnovers, itвЂ™s all relative to the possessions in the game.вЂќД«ut while the turnovers arenвЂ™t quite as concerning to Nurse with what appeared to be an increased pace of play from his team, rebounding might be an area heвЂ™ll look at to slow things down a touch. Optically, it wasnвЂ™t a great look but it is still just pre-season and, according to Nurse, the high turnover numbers might not mean much when put into context of how many possessions the Raptors had on Monday. The Raptors committed 22 turnovers leading to 27 Philadelphia points, and a lot of it could be attributed to the Helter Skelter style the Raptors were playing. Not everything all that running created was necessarily a good thing, however. вЂњWe were creating a lot of stuff because of the running around.вЂќ Like they were back when all of a sudden they were plugged the middle one time and all of a sudden they were running the corner and the next time they were guarding the ball. I saw that moving all those positions around was confusing them in transition defence. вЂњItвЂ™s another thing somebody asked me about the tape from last night. вЂњI know it looks like it's just running around, but there is a lot thought and design and stuff put into it,вЂќ said Raptors head coach Nick Nurse after his team practiced Tuesday. Plays like the one that led to that Watanabe dunk in the second quarter of MondayвЂ™s game donвЂ™t just materialize out of nothing, after all.

#Fast and furious games license#

This isnвЂ™t to say that the Raptors young guns like Banton and Barnes have just been given license to run with no real plan, however. Of course one game вЂ“ let alone a pre-season game вЂ“ doesnвЂ™t make for much of a sample size, but given all the length, athleticism and relative youth this Raptors squad could potentially flash, getting out and running would make a lot of sense as a tactic to match the personnel.

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During MondayвЂ™s contest, however, the Raptors significantly upped that pace by racking up 107.5 possessions, about eight full possessions more than what they averaged last season. Last season, Toronto averaged 99.57 possessions per game, good for 14th in the league. This is a team thatвЂ™s likely going to want to play fast. It was also a pretty good indicator of the style of game the Raptors might be looking to play this season when the games start to become real.