{"id":223462,"date":"2010-01-24T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=14566"},"modified":"2010-01-24T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:33:57","slug":"lakers-raptors-pregame-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/223462","title":{"rendered":"Lakers – Raptors Pregame Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChrisA few things to know about the Raptors before the 3 p.m. tipoff: <\/p>\n

– Phil Jackson<\/b> described the Raptors’ style of play: “It’s about their spacial relations on the floor rather than being a running team. This is a flow team. They’re not particularly about fast break (offense) or running the ball up the floor; they get a lot of points because they open the floor up. (Chris) Bosh<\/strong> will be on the post, but there are relatively few guys on the post, so as a consequence you have to cover a wide open court.<\/p>\n

– Andrea Bargnani<\/strong>, who ranks second on Toronto in scoring and rebounding with 17.2 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game (and is tied with Hedo Turkoglu<\/strong> for the team high in three-pointers made [69]) will start. He had missed Toronto’s last game with a sore lower back and was questionable to play.<\/p>\n

– Bosh<\/strong> is one of two NBA players (Zach Randolph) averaging 20-plus points and 10-plus rebounds, with marks of 24.1 points an 11.1 boards.<\/p>\n

– Jarrett Jack<\/strong>, who began starting at point guard 22 games ago when Jose Calderon sat with an injury, has continued to start since Calderon returned and put up a season-high 27 points during Friday’s win over Milwaukee. He’s averaging 10.5 points and 4.7 assists.<\/p>\n

– Toronto’s defense has improved significantly since early in this season: during the first 21 games, opponents averaged 110 points per game against the Raptors, but since Dec. 5 at Chicago, the Raptors are conceding an average of 99.7 points per game. On offense, meanwhile, the Raptors are the highest scoring team in the Eastern Conference with 103.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

– The Raptors have won five consecutive games against Western Conference teams, defeating Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans, Houston and Minnesota all at Air Canada Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few things to know about the Raptors before the 3 p.m. tipoff: – Phil Jackson described the Raptors’ style of play: “It’s about their spacial relations on the floor rather than being a running team. This is a flow team. They’re not particularly about fast break (offense) or running the ball up the floor; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}