Plenty to like in Toronto Raptors' first showing of 2023/24 season.
The Raptors’ new head coach has come in with an overall mandate of change and, based on the way the Raptors looked in an impressive 112-99 pre-season win over Sacramento in Vancouver on Sunday, he’s delivering.As with any pre-season outing, all of this comes with a whack of qualifiers — none bigger than the fact that the final score of any pre-season game is almost always meaningless. The reminder, as always, is teams use these games for their own unique purposes.
Forget the eye test, which also backed this up, but those first-half numbers — the only part of the game where the Raptors stuck to a regular-season-like 10-man rotation — prove the message is being heard by the people who need to hear it. Starting point guard Dennis Schroder — who Rajakovic stressed post-game is still not quite all the way back after a thrilling-yet-draining World Cup win by Germany that ended only a few weeks ago — played 17 minutes and chipped in with four assists and six points of his own.
Sacramento came out looking very strong and it was Barnes primarily responsible for not letting them get too far away before the Raptors took this one over.
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