Next Up: Sacramento Kings | Raptors Today

Next Up: Sacramento Kings | Raptors Today

Raptors fans ail Austine here in the belly of the beast at is go shank arena with my guy Sher Hamilton Paul Jones talking Raptors basketball the road trip may have started with Memphis but the time shift really happens now we’re getting some real West Coast basketball with the Sacramento Kings the Raptors

Trying to keep the winning energy going as they get into the heart of this road trip we talked about expectations and what we’d like to see numbers wise out of this road trip before they started it but I want to talk about Sacramento specifically sh I’ll start with you

Looking over here not there um what the Raptors need to do to slow down uh King Squad that’s really found themselves it’s tough you talk about speed at the point guard position they’ve got one of the fastest point guards in the NBA and he’s a southpaw which makes it more difficult but Darren

Fox he’s he’s unlocked the cheat Cod he’s figured out the game he he knows his pacing he knows how to get it done he’s scoring at a high level and he’s scoring he’s Mr Clutch he’s a guy who does it in the clutch and that’s a problem and I think the Raptors you’re

Going to struggle with him in terms of his speed but you can’t turn the ball over you can’t give him those extra opportunities and kind of like Giannis you want to start building a wall and make sure that he doesn’t see spaces and gaps to get in and the other side of it

Is now you got to go at him you got to make him work and now the Raptors have a point guard that can go after him his numbers are phenomenal we’ve seen this young man grow over the last few years but now it seems like with Mike Brown at

The helm he’s getting a different kind of Championship perspective because of Mike Brown and and now he’s realizing how to be that guy in every moment and be it all the time and that’s where players go from being a good player to an All-Star to a great player when

They’re doing it every night and he’s doing it Mike Mike Brown’s coaching him hard yeah and it started and it started L he it started last year with dearon Fox where I mean Mike Brown’s been on championship teams and he’s had LeBron and he’s had Kobe and he’s had Steph and

Like saying to dearen you want to be that level yeah I’m I’m going to get you there but you might not like the process but the results will be fine and he he’s allowed Mike to coach him hard and Sher talked about the clutch a guy who’s led

The NBA in fourth quarter scoring last year you know and he he hasn’t forgotten how to do that I like the fact that the Raptors do have somebody that in in a guy like Manuel quickly that can go at him they do have a you know chm talked

About building a wall it’s tough because if he sees that wall he can still knock down threes and and he gets out in transition so uh the Raptors are going to have their work cut out for them and then the way the Kings play you talked about Malik monk he’s another guy guy

Sniper man he comes off the bench firing Sacramento we saw it third in the NBA in three-point attempts and then they have something that I think the Raptors uh are are kind of looking for in Darko system purle provides it a little sabonis the point big like his papa a

Terrific passer might be a little bit more loose with the ball than his dad was but uh you know they they run those splits in the high post and he’s a good screen Setter he’s a good rebounder he that’s going to be a challenge for the

Raptors being able to guard that and the guy that used to do that is no longer here OG OG yeah yeah there’s a crop of these point guards that coming up that have the don’t give a bleep attitude yeah Tyrese Maxi Emanuel Quigley for the Raptors now dearen Fox Tyrese halberton

And these point guards really don’t care yeah they’re coming after everybody anytime all the time and that’s the crop that we’re going to see kind of separate themselves from everybody because of that they have the speed they have the shooting they have the handle Tyrese is an insane passer with low turnovers and

That to me is the next phase of these points point guards with that ability to shoot usually point guards either you can shoot or you’re quick but you’re not really scoring like that Allen Iverson could score with the best of them was he a great shooter no but he true point

Guard not really I don’t know if any I’m just saying I don’t know if any of them are true point guards okay I’m just saying playing the point guard spot those four guys they’re different by by our definition not a true point guard and let me leave you with this I Aon

Mcke I I know we have to go let me leave you with this Sacramento made the right pick between Fox and halberton no okay between Fox and that year the other point guard in the draft was Lonzo ball okay okay okay and I thought Sacramento now they’ve had many years of getting it

Wrong Alonzo’s been injured unfortunate and I’d love to see him healthy to see what he can really do but right now if you’re Sacramento you’re going okay we got the right guy they may have made the right trick with pick with halberton too because it’s working out for both

Organizations but hopefully the Raptors made the right pick with Emanuel quickly because that’s the big time matchup that we’re going to see Friday Night 10 pm on the sportset family of networks that does it for this week on Raptors today we’ll see you guys next week happy New

Year and keep taking care of yourselves let’s Go

Akil Augustine, Paul Jones, and Sherman Hamilton are all together for the first time since the trade. The group share their thoughts on how they can keep the win streak going against the Sacramento Kings.

0:00 Introduction
0:45 De’Aaron Fox
2:00 Mike Brown Effect
3:27 New Wave of Point Guards
4:50 Closing

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