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Toronto – with Toronto Raptors at the end of the season with an eye marina, turned the team’s focus towards development.
But the 108-97 victory over Charlotte Hornz on Friday showed the third consecutive victory in Raptors, that the development does not apply only to the young and the second.
The trio of Jacob Polit, Sisti Barnes and Emmanuel Kwikley made the latest victory for Raptors – and they made a level of optimism that the team may compete in more feasible matches from now.
“It is a great thing to see how difficult they play … and the extent of their connection and how they communicate with each other and how they support each other,” said coach Darko Rajakovic. “This is great for me. For me, everything begins to play hard, and everything begins with a good team’s chemistry, and this is something I am really proud of this team.”
Poeltl, the ninth year center outside Austria, led Raptors with 24 points and added 12 rebounds to complete the double.
The striker, the striker, in the fourth year and all the stars once, contributed 18 points, six rebounds and six decisive passes. The fifth year’s goalkeeper Emmanuel Kwikley, who was obtained from New York Nix last season in the OG Anunoby deal, got 19 points and nine assistants.
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With all the three players under a contract for the next season, Poeltl said that their last series-including the winning series in three current games, in addition to two others earlier in March-was decisive to success in the future.
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“It is a great matter to build chemistry,” he said. “We hope we can get more actors in these last games of the season. I think there is to put work throughout the year and we can now test it more and more.”
With the seventh worst record in the American Professional League, Raptors has a 32 percent opportunity to choose four of the four best people and an opportunity by 7.5 percent to win the highest choice in the Language draft in the American Professional League on May 12.
But Toronto was almost closed in this position, as he was sitting with 3.5 games better than twenty -fourth Philadelphia 76, but four games are worse than Saint Antonio Spears in twenty -second with only nine games in the schedule.
RAPTORS 76 is on Sunday as they try to run the winning chain to four. It would be distinguished for the bottom scanning process, with victories now against Hornz as well as Brooklyn (23-50) and Washington and Wizards (16-57).
Thus, at this stage, with apparently stable lottery balls, the best thing Toronto can do is the goal of building a winning foundation for the next season.
One step towards that? The defensive efficiency of Raptors (permitted points per 100 properties) ranked peaks in the American Professional League during 10 games before Friday.
Rajakovic reinforced the team’s defense again in the victory over Charlotte, pointing to the Barnes identification face, which carried the Miles striker Hornz to shoot 4 for only 20.
“We had great extensions there,” said Rajakovic. “A good defense performance in general from the team.”
Poeltl said the defensive Rajakovic system is unique in the American Professional League, and thus requires more time.
“The idea is that you do this for a long time to where we feel comfortable,” he said. Then we can put a difference in uncomfortable situations and I think this is starting to appear.
“We are able to make a lot of pressure on the players and forcing them to make mistakes and this is great for us. It makes us go, and makes us run in the attack.”
Raptors scored nine theft against Hornz while he committed only six transformations.
In the fourth quarter, Jamal Shadd Hornz was forced into an eight -second rear violations, which led to the celebration of the Toronto seat.
Ideally for RAPTORS, these types of plays are frequently occurring, and more, next season.
“We are anywhere about to end, but I think we are on a good wave of really showing that we can put these extensions,” Polit said.
“Now it is about the next step, doing this against better opponents, doing this for a full season, and we hope you will follow the results.”
This report issued by the Canadian press was published for the first time on March 28, 2025.
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