Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame at Washington Wizards | March 23, 2024

Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame at Washington Wizards | March 23, 2024

How is your back feeling we all good everybody dealing with something we going out here to try to get wins that’s our goal that’s our Focus um just in terms of what you guys saw tonight it felt like you guys really battled especially through like the first three quarters then some mistakes

Were happening a little bit in the fourth what did you see out there we just went out there we tried to fight tried to you know come out with a win on the road you know it’s not tough to win it’s not easy to win on the road and you

Know we tried to put everything we could together you know we end up coming up short at the end missing a little couple possessions missing a couple open shots you know just things we got to hone in on how are you able to kind of switch your game up because the three ball

Wasn’t falling today but that’s okay cuz you’re able to get some layups in as well how were you able to do that still just trying to you know get downhill still have impact on the game again whether you making threes missing threes you still need to play defense you still

Need to rebound you still need to you know play basketball so this just part of the game continue figuring out just keep going rolling with the punches of course nobody wants to you know lose that’s not part like that’s not part of it but we talked about this earlier that

We’re trying to build habits in games like these where do you see that habit building just in the little things again when we’re going back and forth you know you’re building them habits when there 3 minutes left when it’s when it’s almost like a playoff atmosphere the fans get more

Into it every possession is magnified everything matters everything’s important and that’s what comes in the long run you know down in June when you know you going against the best two best teams that’s left it’s the little details that separate them obviously they both good they’re there for a

Reason they have great players just the you know little things that you went through through the season that helped you and then you talk about these young guys and new guys making most of their opportunities and this kind of unprecedented uh scenario that you guys have been facing over the past month

With injuries what do you make of what you’re seeing from the guys like uh Freeman Liberty and Ramsey yeah everybody just coming out you know trying to hoop and play they get an opportunity you know opportunity of a life time you know he Rams got the opportunity to start tonight if I’m not

Mistaken so exactly so you know do you get an opportunity of a lifetime to star in NBA you know they should hold in on this opportunity be appreciative about this opportunity and you know try to take it as far as they can but play well though coach what did you what did you

See from your team tonight um I saw a lot of fight uh we struggled with rebounding the ball I thought we did a pretty good job uh in in a half court offense just moving the ball and uh scoring off off of cuts I thought that uh Kelly did really good job of

Connecting with teammates he ended up with uh 10 assists tonight and uh we get gave a lot of fight uh we we missed a couple of possessions there at the end of the third quarter uh start of the fourth quarter when we had that nice

Lead and uh we were not able to to sustain it and make those 10 11 points to to bring it to 15 or 20 I know how tough was it to see some of those mistakes down the stretch a couple of those those giveaways late after being pretty good through the first three

Quarters yeah I mean uh we missed the layup we miss missed wide open shots uh we missed the dunk uh obviously guys they they want to make those shots they want to make right decisions there uh uh did not go our way tonight I thought they also that they scored some uh

Timely baskets and then tough contested shots uh but as I said I think that the B main difference in tonight’s game was uh uh rebounding and then just in terms of Gary what did you see from him because he was obviously a big leader offensively but in more ways than one uh

Um Gary uh he he found a way to be effective without making threes tonight he went 1 for seven from the three-point line but uh he did good job of uh cutting and being active and and touching the paint and making decisions from from there uh I wish that he he

Made couple of more layups there uh but he didn’t but and it’s going to be good opportunity for him to grow in that area as well um and I I thought that on defensive end that he did a really good job having active hands coming up with a

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Gary Trent Jr. and Head Coach Darko Rajakovic speak with the media following the Raptors’ 112-109 loss to the Washington Wizards on Saturday. #Raptors #torontoraptors

0:00 Gary Trent Jr.
2:08 Darko Rajakovic