Next Up: Chicago Bulls | Raptors Today – Jan 30, 2024

Next Up: Chicago Bulls | Raptors Today – Jan 30, 2024

Raptors fans the Bulls are up next the keil Austine Paul Jones Ashley dacking let’s talk about it vuci man as they call him um a murderer on the inside the Raptors do not have their Center Ashley I’ll start with you how do the Raptors stop what happened last time when the

Bulls got the best of them behind their big man well you don’t probably wow you probably don’t stop vich on the boards in particular you want to make his life hell you want to make sure that he’s not um collecting too many Second Chance opportunities it goes back to

Fundamentals I know it seems like no one really does it in the NBA like can I box out can I always have a body on it no because the referee’s called that a foul now when there’s a box out you’re being extra old man today about

Everything no but so I think that you try and limit the opportunities that he’s going to get on the putback it’s going to happen and if that’s going to be the case then you run people off the line you don’t let them kill you white

By threes and you try and trade twos and threes with them if your threes are dropping I draw that card right I think I think I think the big thing we’ve seen with Vu is if you can get him off the block yeah or or send a double team at

Him he is still prone to his passing’s not going to be bad passes you’re getting deflections like I go back to the Raptors winning the championship that year and the first series against Orlando the every time he touched the ball they were running two at him and

And now you’re trying to make the other guys beat you the problem is one of those other guys DeMar he can beat you so I mean to Ashley’s point you I I think you just have to try and limit and in some way shape or form the Raptors

Have to find some rebounding they are one and 21 when outrebounded this year in games damn all right now when you talk this bull Squad quickly let’s talk about their future because this is a team that’s out of Crossroads and doesn’t seem to be able to make a

Decision people talked about that with the Raptors and Pascal sakam you got the Rosen in the contract here you got LaVine who seems to be dangled out and no takers what happens next for this group where did they go you know you you look at it and as bad as they were at

The start of the year and people thought okay this is it they’re going to blow it up they’re going to do something they’ve kind of recovered and they are right where they were last year be right with the inter worst case scenario for a group like this when you don’t really

Know where you stand and you’re just good enough you’re kind of stuck in the middle you’re just good enough to lose and and they got that internal growth going with the sunu who hit the hit that clutch shot against Portland the other night I would think that I would think

That in next little while we’re going to see something from Chicago and if we don’t then at the end of the summer at the end of the season as we head into the summer there are going to be some major moves that I I I just feel that

Way especially with the age of some of the guys like dear you’re not Young no and and dear to me deserves to be somewhere where he can even be a a third guy and try to win a championship yeah the whole thing hit this kid when ball got hurt right that

Was the whole thing it’s like he’s going to be the facilitator to make sure all of these guys who aren’t necessarily astute ball movers are going to get the opportunity to get some additional space then he goes down his knee’s a problem three surgeries later people aren’t even

Sure of his future and now you have all the big three which is V and then you have LaVine and then you have dear and they’re sitting there like hey who’s going to facilitate for us and so with all the internal growth that’s fine but their timeline was projected to be win

Now when they went out and got everything and the problem with the LaVine contract is not that he’s not good it’s not that he can’t put up points it’s that he has that player option in 26 27 for like 48 million bucks and you’re sitting there like you

Better be pretty damn sure in the next two years that you’re going to pick up a trophy because otherwise that is going to cost you and it’s going to be similar to the be contract hard as all hell to move yeah all right up next we at

Toronto Raptors a date with the Chicago Bulls and that goes 8:00 pm from Chicago the game split between sportset and TSN sportset for the TV TSN for the radio Jones’s got you covered that does it for us here at a Tuesday and these guys are

Going to see you later in the week but I got some NHL Allstar responsibilities so I’ll see you guys next we not big time hockey hockey ail shy scores thanks for watching the Toronto Raptor YouTube channel check out our latest videos and subscribe for More Trent answers back Gary side step break got it

Next up for the Toronto Raptors on their road trip is the Chicago Bulls. Akil, Ashley and Jonesy look ahead at the matchups and what is in store for both teams moving forward.

0:00 Introduction
0:12 Stopping Vucevic
1:45 Direction of the Bulls
4:08 Thanks for Watching!
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