Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame vs Sacramento Kings | March 20, 2024

Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame vs Sacramento Kings | March 20, 2024

Uh Gary a lot of the conversation throughout this stretch and recently has been about like development and like how to like learn through these struggles for you this season where do you feel like your game has been developing throughout all this uh just been in put in different

Positions throughout the year you know um just trying to make it work trying to roll with the punches again we got a whole bunch of young players as well that’s trying to learn and grow and roll with the punches as well and you know I feel like leadership um how to deal with

Things I would say really was the contributive factors to you know probably this season of what I’ve learned the most and opportunity and certain things I’ve been in but for sure what’s your advice to a lot of the the guys on the roster who um obviously most

The guys playing tonight don’t have an opportunity like this but what’s your advice when to get out there and um have an opportunity to show th% they haven’t had the opportunity or the experience you know so tell them just go out there and play play hard again no matter what

At the end of the day don’t lay down the end of the day stay together you know try to get his wins trying to score trying to get as many stops as we can to you know be victorious at the end talk about maybe a little bit of the

Frustration you felt during the game today uh I wouldn’t really say frustrated but obviously you know we getting beat up beat up on you know so that can be tough but again just staying solid you know staying 10 toes down don’t lay down you know St talking to

Guys and continue to keep playing hard that’s all I really can do was trying to do and you know to the best of my abilities and we all going continue to try to do that every game anybody you been impressed with um anybody You’ been impressed with that normally you don’t

Get a chance to see this much BS uh everybody’s been doing great you know Grady you know he shoots the ball super well old child come in he play defense he’s super athletic he been catching whole bunch of lobs and little catch and shoot threes and stuff like that you

Know Kelly his ability to be able to pass and his ability be able to cut and score and have certain post moves and get Guys open been big for us Bruce you know he him going down Hill doing what he does uh finding guys you know being a

Point guard in a sense you know and Javon you know he’s coming in playing hard Jr he’s coming in trying to play defense play hard he’s picking up full you know we’ve been on the 10 days so you know he’s trying to show improve and

Showcase what he can do you know and Jon been coming in he been in and out of heard stuff and same thing with Jaylen he been playing decent just really waiting for opportunity to continue to keep going and playing hard but you know mo he tried to come out there he put him

In certain situations you know he’s just learning trying to figure it out on the Fly type of thing so you know everybody been doing some you know GT even he’s not even on the floor but he’s still preaching to us he’s still talking to guys he’s still telling guys what you

Should be looking at in this situation how you should be doing this so you know everybody from top to bottom you know is contributing and I’m impressed with and you know they’re trying to contribute and help towards winning Dr what’s the what’s the mood is it’s becoming frustration anger resignation what what

What’s the mood of the group as these bounces bounces I mean um it’s just desire to to do better um everybody is eager to uh perform better to compete better A lot of players are playing outside of their roles and something they’re not accustomed to um and uh

Nobody’s expecting from uh from this group to be something that they’re not but they really got to be star in their roles they got to do small things for each other and that’s going to that’s going to really help them to perform better and to be competitive in all of those

Games you’re obviously playing for the long game with the development of these players are you seeing good signs from anybody specifically like uh there are signs of it and uh when you’re going through situations like this uh it it takes time and it’s not happening

Overnight uh and uh we had a couple of games that we were very competitive against good teams uh tonight that was not the case uh you know we missed tonight Emmanuel quickly as well uh adding to the list and then during the game we lost uh J Porter as well you

Know and they’re just like going down the stretch and just think you know we’re pretty thin right now but um I thought that tonight uh we were able to do something specific in pck rolls with with Kelly uh to get him in some Hedges and shows with which was positive in the

Second half we were able to get uh you know a little bit different look for us and that’s something that we want to try to experiment and look what’s the best for for this group but uh um there is just desire from the whole group to do

Better what did you think of your team’s effort L especially in the second and third quarter um eort is U up and down you know like like any other team I don’t think that effort that Sacramento had tonight was 48 minutes of effort that those things are uh you know playing in

Swings and definitely there were moments that effort was not good enough especially when we were committing turnovers and we were not able to get back on defense I was you know I was really disappointed with that part you know we’re trying to move the ball and when mistakes happened we still got to

Be able to to go back on defense and cover for each other and play hard thanks for watching the Toronto rappers YouTube channel check out our latest video And subscribe for more in a crow wide [Applause] here the that was great

Coach and player speak with the media following the Raptors’ 123-89 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.

0:00 Gary Trent Jr.
2:45 Darko Rajakovic

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