Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame at Charlotte Hornets | February 7, 2024

Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame at Charlotte Hornets | February 7, 2024

Called a timeout in the third quarter where you as far as I’ve seen you looked about as upset as I’ve seen you on the court not at a ref this year uh what were you thinking in that moment and were you pleased with the response eventually uh I was not happy with

Intensity uh I was not happy with our communication just the urgency was not there um in order to win on the road uh we needed to be better so um I just expressed my feelings uh in a soft Serbian way so U but I mean um you know at the end of a

Trip and and things haven’t been going well to have your guys go and play the fourth quarter I think as TIY overall as they did it’s got to you know it’s as a coach you want your team to respond and that had to be a bit satisfying for sure

Um we started the G they they made the first five shots and I think it was 12 to3 and after that uh for the rest of the game we were U winning we were getting lead we just needed that momentum to to break it and to toh get

It on our side and it happened in the fourth quarter when it was the most important and everybody stepped up there I thought that Scotty did the outstanding job on Miller a whole night with his physicality and making it really hard on him uh in the fourth

Quarter RJ uh gave us some really good good defense as well as quickly Yak was huge there last couple of positions blocking shots protecting the rim securing rebounds so all of that uh combined we kept them to 20 points in in the fourth quarter and uh we were still

Able to to to score 32 and get a win after uh that timeout in the third Darko said he expressed his feelings to the team in a soft Serbian way what would be uh your your recounting of that we weren’t playing all defense I mean I

Wasn’t playing any defense um but no we uh it was good you know we came he listen we listened you know we responded um Everybody locked in everybody’s played hard and we’re able to come back and get the win the I mean you know he

He he seems to go to bat for you guys quite a bit he spends a lot of time with you guys individually so when he does kind of raise his temperature a bit I guess you guys feel obligated to kind of respond a little bit yeah absolutely you

Know uh coach like that um always very even killed so you know when he when he kind of challenges us like that you know you know we got to respond what was the biggest takea away from the road trip collectively just in general uh in

General um just for me it was the the the little things you know two two games where one if we get a rebound we win another one if I just hold the ball we win like you know so it’s a little things like that uh we played hard

Fought games and and four four out of the six games so you know just kind of learning that you know those every little thing matters in a game are you looking forward to playing a home game absolutely forgot what that’s like I mean I think I mean you I think

You only played you’ve played twice as many Road since December and and then uh I mean Fred Van he won’t be playing uh it sounds like on Friday but you guys seeing Houston again so close to just playing them what’s something that you know you’re already going into that one thinking that from

This road trip I want to bring into that game you know saw them a couple saw a couple uh couple days ago for sure um they got us in Houston so definitely having that that Focus that mindset you know also just being able to you know

Get home and and uh you know get comfortable go out there and try to get a win thanks for watching the Toronto rappers YouTube channel check out our latest video And subscribe for [Applause] moread [Applause] wide

Players and coach speak with the media following the Raptors’ 123-117 victory over to the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday.

00:00 – Darko Rajakovic
01:40 – RJ Barrett

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