Toronto Raptors losing streak extends to 10 games | Norman Powell for Gary Trent Jr., 3-years later

Toronto Raptors losing streak extends to 10 games | Norman Powell for Gary Trent Jr., 3-years later

On your Monday episode of Locked on Raptors another pair of losses over the weekend for your Toronto Raptors and that brings them the 10 straight L’s on the schedule which begs the question will they win another game this season we’ll answer that question and so many more coming up on today’s show thanks

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Thunder and the Wizards over the weekend uh quite running the the spectrum of teams of various quality to beat the Toronto Raptors and we’ll dig into that with our palc Jacob big V how the hell are you buddy are you losing your mind watching this basketball team play games

Yet I am not uh done yet I I feel like you’re sick then I’m gonna call a doctor right [Laughter] now look I I know what the end is going to be more often than not um at this point exclusively there’s one end result but yeah I I think I’m enjoying the

Elements of Grady dick developing of oai abaji trying things out of you know how Kelly oen is getting guys involved um I’m enjoying watching jamas Ramsey um that might be done but uh we’ll see about that and so you know we’ll see if Kobe Simmons gets a minutes now um so

I’m I’m taking it all in uh as it is and you know no expectations you can’t be too disappointed when you have no expectations whatsoever yeah I mean I suppose that’s fair uh my sort of CounterPoint is that uh you know I would like to enjoy spending time watching the

Basketball team that I invest entirely too many hours of my life into and just kind of been sapped over this last little while I know a lot of it’s out of their control you can’t handle you can’t control for Scotty Barnes and yakob purle breaking various extremities you

Can’t control for person tragedy taking guys out of the lineup I get all of that but the the end result being this where you know as much as I think you can pull the positives on a couple of guys here it’s just so little of what’s happening

On the court right now means anything to the long-term future of this team that I’m having a hard time really getting Juiced up to be like all right we got to dig into Raptor’s Wizards and grind the tape baby um it’s a challenge but as you said there are some interesting things

Going on we will talk about Gary Trent Jr who came back to the lineup and had himself a very Gary Trent Jr game I would say against the Wizards on Saturday we’ll talk about him and his future with our sort of like weekly Gary Trent Jr future check we’ve got the good

The bad of the H coming up but you mentioned Grady dick oai I baji let’s start there probably the two bright spots of the weekend for the Raptors Grady dick 21 points on eight of 15 four seven from Deep five boards and assist to Steel against the thunder on Friday

And then follows it up against the Wizards with a 17 points on six of 13 game two boards two assists and a block made a couple nice like plays at the rim and stuff like that as well too kind of flashing some defensive chops we know he’s got the defensive smarts it’s the

Physicality on defense that’s been the thing for Grady but uh oai I baji as well you know pretty decent 12 points you know six of 12 in that Wizards game uh it was four of 10 overall and he can’t hit his threes right now it’s kind of driving us everyone crazy I think

That he can’t hit those threes but he had six assists in that game against the thunder on Friday and kind of had the game of his life playmaking wise we can get into the Su of the uh the assists in particular if you want but Grady dick

Oai abaji any sort of broad takeaways that further inform your feeling on these guys from the last couple games well before I get into the broad takeaways in terms of the fun stuff to watch and what you can look forward to Grady had some awesome highlights he had

The one uh Jam um he had the almost diving Up and Under against the thunder in the fir early in the first quarter oay abaji had a monster block on Corey kispert uh so that’s some of the fun stuff that you can look forward to still

In these games that are disg weaving all this optimism and Glee into this podcast what are you doing man you’re supposed to be the everything is fine guy look it’s not fine right now okay but terms pict been passed into you it’s nice appreciating it in terms of

The big picture stuff I I do like that uh Grady has bounced back from I felt like maybe feeling the toll of starters minutes and sort of struggling with that which you would expect from a rookie and you wondered at which point he was gonna

Get hit with it and he did and so to have these two games and have that bounce back was good to see uh with oai abaji I don’t know if there’s uh so much big picture maybe you know you would look at uh again it all starts with the

Defense with him so I think you know going up against the Thunder I thought he had some good possessions against Shay uh I thought that uh you know his uh positioning was really good for the most part um I think uh you know his rebounding really stands out to me I I

Think his ability on the offensive glass he’s got a real nose for the ball and that I think that’s the part that gets me intrigued is like when I watch watch him you know as great as his body is I see a basketball player first um I see a

Guy making good basketball decisions that was probably even more reflected uh in uh the game against the Thunder where where he had the six assists and you know we’re so used to seeing Kelly Olen hook him up uh with easy bucket so it was nice to see him return the favor and

Get him uh a couple layups uh right around the back beautiful DEA entry passes into little pockets of space lofted in a coach’s dream yeah exactly right and a lot of guys aren’t good at entry passes these days because guess what you’re not you’re just not used to

Going in this in the post um and so it was good to see that and so those are maybe more of the big picture stuff that I’d lean into um what about you yeah I mean I think with Grady really nice to see him bounce back and kind of find the

Sea legs again after a little bit of wobble there and like you said I I don’t think it’s shocking that he was having some trouble with the EXP Ed role being like the second option of the offense for a long stretch there and the most

Tenur Raptor on the the my God man what are we doing um but yeah just I think I didn’t need to see much more from Grady this season to feel good but I do think this little bounceback is very encouraging still you know it’s nice to

See that he could kind of have that Nader of his season and then bounce back have a couple nice games and look more comfortable look like the legs were back that that I was in the house for that Kings game last week where he shot one

Of eight and it really felt like the legs just were not there for him and nice to see that he kind of popped back up look sprightly hitting them from deep as well trying him from Deep uh in these games over the weekend so yeah all

Really good stuff there with a baji like the passing really nice stretch in that Thunder game with like a lot of sorry was it the Wizards game Thunder game Thunder game th yeah um you know like the beautiful crosscourt pass he had corner to corner to jonte Porter right

In the shooter pocket that was pretty sweet um you know he had like a live dribble pick and roll drop you know pocket pass to Kelly linin traffic like that’s all really encouraging stuff I think that probably bodess well most for like his role in the second unit next

Year like if he can do a little bit of secondary Creation in a pinch I think that’s huge for those lineups that did start to look like they were gaining some steam before Scotty Barnes went down um you know I don’t think he profiles as a starter to me and it’s

Mostly because he just can’t hit his threes he’s down 23% as a raptor he was one of 10 over the weekend despite all the good he did he was one of 10 at the thing that’s maybe the most important for keeping him on the floor and you

Know he’s down to 33% for his career he doesn’t really have a track record of being a high-end three-point shooter and it’s mostly all come from the corners above the break it’s a loss cause for him and so I’m still a little dubious

I’m still a little like uh is he G to be part of the plans here is he an eighth or ninth guy is you’re more of like a a 12th guy in on the next version of the Raptors that is competitive but I do think he’s showing enough here with the

Sort of secondary skills that he’s going to start next season kind of penciled into that second unit and I think that’s perfectly fine um Grady dick will be there as well one would assume and uh you know I’m sure a draft pick or two will probably find their way into that

Mix as well but I I think if nothing else we’re seeing that oai is taking his claim to at minimum the eighth or ninth man job on next year’s team which is I think all you could really ask for from a guy who I don’t think is super

Projectable as far as you know massive enhancements in his game it’s kind of fine-tuning the things he’s already good at and then please for the love of God knocking down some threes here in there um we’ll come back on the other side a guy who came back over the weekend Gary

Trent Jr played against the Wizards had 31 points on 26 shots the Gary Trent Jr special baby uh we’re g to talk about him his future and do a little retrospective on the Norman Powell trade uh as Vic talked about this in his Weekly Newsletter this week so we’ll get

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Jays and MLB preview content you could possibly want all right big V Gary Trent JR this feels like a weekly ride of Passage where we just kind of check in on Gary Trent Jr and whether or not his future with the Raptors has become any more clarified last week I think we kind

Of established what we’ve always established Gary Trent Jr ain’t changing he’s the same guy he is a one-dimensional three-point shooter who can sometimes get you some Steals and does that give you enough defensive value for what he does on the floor what you need from that spot kind of a an

Open question I think we all agree that he’s probably not worth the 18 million or so that he’s making this season he’s probably due for a bit of a step back in terms of his earning power you know barring some team coming out of nowhere with a big offer which is always

Possible at which point I think the Raptors probably just walk away because three-point shooting of the one-dimensional variety is is kind of uh available in Spades if you want to go looking for it on the market so I don’t know anything from this return from Gary Trent Jr that alters your thinking are

We still kind of in the same place here where it’s going to be kind of down to price down to what the other options are in for Agency for the Raptors or did 31 points four boards two assists three Steals on 10 of 26 shooting and 10 of 10

From the line sway you into being pro Gary Trent Jr return unequivocally regard less of the price where you at with GT gtj big V I’m pretty much in the same place I’ve been because I think you you could look at this stretch and really say it’s

Pretty similar to his initial stint with the Raptors in Tampa where uh he kind of blows the doors off and is going off and you’re looking at it saying oh wow that trade makes a whole lot of sense you got a whole lot younger and you got the you

Got this guy that can shoot the lights out and he you have that 44-point game against Cleveland where he missed like two field goals um game winner against the Wizards was also a banger yeah so um I think I think he’s playing great I I think defensively we’re seeing what he’s

Like at his ceiling where he’s able to use his hands and really disrupt uh the dribbler and create deflections and Steals and get the Raptors out in transition um and then we also see the downside of you know where if he gets into a mismatch where he is a bit

Undersized going up against his own position um then it becomes difficult if he get if he gets switched on to someone else then he becomes overly relying of like hey I’ve got to find a way to tap the ball out here or I’m in trouble you

Know so uh I think we know what Gary is as a player uh you describe that uh entirely and so for me the the way I look at it is with a lot of players with a lot of 25y old players you usually bake in potential and for me when you look at

Gary Trent Jr what he’s been with the Raptors that has not really changed and so I would not bake in that potential in in terms of what a contract offer would look like yeah I mean to your potential point right like I would argue they were baking in potential when they signed him

To the deal he currently on and you know he was what 22 then hasn’t quite borne out and I I think this is a pretty classic example of you know we often get so you know seduced by potential and say oh the potential of this guy this guy

Could be this this guy could be anything he could even be Norman Powell um which brings me to on the three-year anniversary of the Gary Trent Jr for Norman Powell trade which it feels way longer than three years since that went down uh but that’s what it’s been and I

Think Gary Trent Jr is like the second longest serving Raptor uh in that three-year time frame wild but in those three years you know the norm pow Gary Trent Jr trade has been sort of something I don’t think a lot of raptors fans have gotten like too mad about

Necessarily it’s not one of those oh my God how could you possibly make that kind of trade it’s not the yaka purle trade which has the fan base split down the middle or maybe more sort of like 75 25 in sort of meltdown mode over how

They feel about it um it’s been sort of oh yeah that trade happened and you know it worked out the way it worked out but now we’re three years out exactly which I did not not at all plan uh I just just looked it up while we’re talking here

Today I wish I were uh that studious in the way I put together the podcast sometimes but not today this is just a happy accident but it is three years since the deal how would you evaluate Gary Trent Jr for Norman Powell Powell obviously is flirting with winning a

Six-man of the Year award this year for a very good Clippers team he continues to just like shoot 40% from three get to the rim whatever he wants do Norm Powell things he’s been doing that for years now I think there was maybe a perception that when he signed his deal with the

Blazers it was maybe a bit of an albatross contract and they ended up moving him for basically next to nothing in a salary dump essentially to the clippers but he’s remained pretty much the exact same guy he was during his last couple seasons in Toronto through to now you know obviously not the

Greatest defensive player in the world but an absolute dead eyee shooter guy who can get you Rim pressure all that good stuff we love about Norm Powell how do you evaluate that trade is it a win is it a loss it is a you know one of

Those sort of both sides benefit type of deals where you at with the Gary Tren Jr from Norm po thing three years out for me at this point in the deal I would say that it is a loss for the Raptors I think when you look at the

Fact that Gary Trent Jr ended up getting paid more than Norm uh I think when you look at the fact that Norman Powell has been uh the better shooter uh over the last few seasons and you probably say the better player overall I mean when I went and put together the shooting

Numbers um the two that really stand out is Norman Powell 49% from the corners crazy compared to Gary’s 35 uh and then uh the pullup sorry not the pullup the the catch and shoot three where Norm’s at 46% um and Gary’s at 42 they’re pretty much the same with the above the break

And the pull-up three uh but those two separators and then you throw in the fact that Norm was a guy that could attack a close out really get to the basket um create that Rim pressure that that really separates him as an offensive player I feel um defensively

Again you can have your um issues with both players and so uh you know there’s not too much to pick there but offensively I would say that Norma has been the better player and then you know I I really felt that over the course of Norm’s tenure with the Raptors he really

Grew as a leader and I didn’t want to get into a whole retrospective about you know what could have been in the piece but you know that’s what the podcast is for baby exactly and so you know when you read his piece uh in the players Tribune and how much he loved

Toronto I don’t like that he didn’t get that chance to be with pas SC and Fred and OG and you know kind of be there till The Bitter End you know it’s likely that he would have ended up getting moved at this point anyway um as they

Usher in the new era but you you think about fits and whatnot you you look at you know Gary next to Scotty now throw in some Rim pressure and Scotty would love that right and so I think uh Norm has been missed his leadership the way he was kind of got shepherding uh

You know I know we use the term shepherding with like point guards but like he became a real guide for the bench guys he played with um and that sort of understand the grind and really bring it each and every night um mentality that he had was something that

Was really rubbing off on his teammates and I think that’s something that this organization you know when we talk about the organization kind of losing it way as far as the culture is concerned like he was part of that yeah it would be nice if they could

Uh start to like hang on to some of the guys who are like please don’t trade me I love it here I want to be here for the rest of my life but alas the the business of the NBA turns on yeah I mean I think so I remember pretty vividly

What my thoughts were on the norm Powell situation going into that deadline in the Tampa season and it was like if you can turn Norm Powell into guy who is a like a core foundational piece for you going forward who you feel more comfortable having on the team than a

$20 million a year Norm po as like your fourth guy then great like if you can do that wonderful and at the time I thought Gary Trent Jr stood a chance of doing that and the way he played coming out of the trade really made it seem like okay

Like they might have something here I think in the years since it’s become pretty clear Gary Trent Jr is not that guy I also think it’s fair to say that like Norm po might not have been that guy either who you felt comfortable having as like your fourth best player

At 20 m a year but I think he’s a lot closer to that than Gary Trent junior is and you know I think as far as like the specific weaknesses that undid those Raptors during those times like obviously Trent and pal bring similar three-point shooting and all of that but

You mentioned the just overall sort of prolificness of Norm shooting Way Beyond where Gary’s at and I think the rim pressure stuff and just sort of the self-creation I think might have stood a chance of like bolstering some of those bench lineups that struggled so poorly

Over the last couple seasons and so look I don’t think having Norm on this team over Gary Tren Jr changes the trajectory all that tangibly like I think they probably end up in the same sort of mid-range that they ended up being before they decided to move on from

Pascal and OG but I think it would have given a better Fighting Chance of you know putting together something a little more worth keeping together and I think it’s now pretty safe to say they lost that trade and it’s not like a a disastrous l L the kind of trade that

Teams lose all the time it’s sort of like a 6040 type trade we’ll see if they keep Gary around and maybe that changes the narrative on it too but I do think three years now out we can probably judge it bit of an l and not an L on the

Same level as some of the others but certainly one that’s not helped one of those little tiny Cuts that’s kind of made it so the Raptors are in their current predicament right now um yeah as a teaser I will say if you want to see

How this trade can still be a win you can head to my piece that is professional teasing we’re going to come back on the other side we’re going to get to The Good the Bad and the H we’re going to have a fun little would you rather there’s a tease as well we’re

Going to talk about 10day shuffling and we got a good that uh will warm my heart at least even if it won’t do a whole lot for the Raptors in terms of uh you know the quality of their roster we’ll get to that coming up in just one

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Easy closing out the show with VC Jacob from sportset and Raptors in seven with The Good the Bad and the H the way we round out every single one of these pods here on the tail of a Raptor game two games in this case uh what are good from

This weekend it’s a thing we liked a thing we didn’t like and a thing that’s got us a little intrigued where you going with the thing you liked I’m gonna go with oai I think that this was uh is probably his best pair of

Games as a raptor and so to have it back toback was really encouraging obviously as you said three-point shooting is is the sticking point and 24% as a raptor that’s not good enough he was at 35% coming in uh so far in his career with the Jazz and so obviously that’s been

Plummeting um I do think he has to take more above the breakes than you would like just because of who’s available and where he is in the offense um but I think that’s going to be the big thing in the off season you know how much can

He work at that uh the one thing I will say that encourages me in terms of hey is he the type of guy that has shown in the past that he can work at something especially a shooting skill and get better at it if you go back to his college numbers at Kansas

20189 he’s taking three threes a game 30% second season four threes a game 34% third season seven threes a game 38% fourth season six and a half attempts a game 40.7% so um you like to see that as you know some sort of encouragement and hey is this something that he can just

Continue to work at uh but now you know we we need to see that work in the off season and need to see him level up to being a respectable threat yeah um we’ll see I I think I’m less optimistic on the three-point shooting than you are but I would expect

Nothing less than optimism from you the captain of the ochai abaji bandwagon uh I am going to go with little just a subtle good for a dude who’s been a beacon of Good Vibes and tutelage and Veteran wisdom all season long getting some run Garrett Temple playing minutes

Hitting shots we love it eight points plus 10 against the thunder on Friday should have played in more than 18 minutes give him 40 minutes of action I don’t care he could probably handle it right I don’t want to hurt him I know he’s like very very old now but uh then

He comes back plays against the Wizards hits a three uh three points five boards two assists 11 minutes love it uh a guy who has been uh pretty cool to have around all season long constantly kind of talking to the Young Dudes keeping the Vibes light on the bench I would

Presume he’s just going to walk into a backbench assistant role once he retires from the Raptors at the end of this season um but yeah happy to see Garrett Temple getting a little bit of room to cook here because I mean what else are you gonna do watching an old guy cook

That’s about as fun as you’re GNA get with this team as of right now what is your bad from this game or this these games so I’m actually gonna go specifically with a bad from the Wizards game okay I am gonna go at the referees a little

Oh my God you’re doing ref talk for a team that’s 23 and 48 you’re sick go carry on my point is just this it’s it’s one thing for fans or whoever’s watching to be like oh my God I can’t believe I’m watching Raptors versus Wizards on a Saturday night

Um but for the referees to referee like oh this is just Raptors Wizards I just thought they were pretty disconnected from the game um and thought that was highlighted um when Kyle kosma took a very clear cheap shot at Kelly olenic and that should have been the end of his

Night um and they didn’t even look at it and so that that’s my issue with that game you know like at the end of the day you got to ref every game seriously and and they were pretty much to me out there like it was like oh

It’s just raps Wizards we can miss some calls tonight yeah perhaps a human inclination but I I’m with you they should probably uh do their jobs use it as a practice ground at least to do their jobs better in getting important games that you know always wins in

Lessons um my bad is uh did you hear that they’ve lost 10 games in a row big V it’s a lot of losses in a row they stink they it’s like a totally lost Enterprise at the moment and it’s setting up what I think is going to be

In a year that’s been full of sort of very annoying and upsetting retrospectives on the yaka purle trade is going to set up maybe the worst month yet when it comes to the dread of the draft pick thing hanging over the Raptors as of right now the Rapters are

Worse than the Grizzlies that means they are in the sixth place in the lottery odds which means oh if everything stays Chu they get to keep their pick however the lottery odds don’t like chalk because it’s only a 46% chance the Raptors will actually keep their pick if

They are in that six spot which means if they finish where they are now there will be a month of sitting there and worrying about a coin flip that sounds not fun to me so I have a would you rather for you big V I feel like I know

You’re G to go with this one I think everyone knows we’re I’ll go with this one but I want like everyone out there who’s all like keep the pick keep the pick at all cost again totally out your control but anyway they keep the pick crowd I just want to like present the

Unfortunate reality that is going to be the next couple of months of your lives if in fact the Toronto Raptors end up with the six best LS six best odds in the draft lottery so would you rather finish with the six worth worst odds or six best odds and sit for a month

Thinking about this coin flip and going insane or would you prefer to be seventh in the odds kind of resigned and not keeping your pick with an outside shot of actually jumping up into the top four which might actually mean something uh where are you at what would you rather

Between those two sixth odds and Dread or seventh odds and resigned sadness yeah give me the seventh odds and the resigned Sadness the the hope of sneaking into that top four um I I did a piece on how that’s kind of shaken out you know the seventh best odds versus

The sixth best odds and whether or not to convey the pick you can check that over uh at Raptors and seven as well and so yeah for me it was very much like you know compete play the games the results will be what the results are but obviously so much of what’s happening

Now has just been dictated by injury and you know losing Scotty losing Yak um I was enjoying watching uh that team play um until that Warriors game where Scotty uh hurt his finger and so uh yeah I think a lot of it has kind of just been

Dictated by the injuries uh and to your point earlier uh in the podcast you know a lot of what we really wanted to learn uh has been taken away and so I’m kind of resigned regardless um and it’s uh it it’s definitely a bad look that the organization is even in this

Position right where you are in position to potentially keep the pick in a very bad draft and potentially still be bad next year um and have uh that situation you know yeah no sixth overall pick in this year’s draft is saving next year’s Outlook uh it’s going

To depend on a whole lot of what else they do in the summer to determine what next year’s pick is going to look like we’ll see what their intentions are for sure but yeah I’m with you as well give me those seventh odds and a CH chance of

Jumping up I don’t want to be sitting there Fring over a coin flip for a month before the lottery that sounds like a miserable existence and anyone who wants it is uh frankly a psycho and I I know people in the Discord know what I’m talking about uh you’re all sickos uh

Let’s get to the H what you got for your H to round it out so as far as the hum goes I wanted to just look at you know Kelly oen it’s like what aspect of his defense can you improve and I think uh he just kind of

Resorts to the charge a bit too much sure um I think is there an opportunity to maybe coach that and obviously this is a huge uh developmental staff that they’ve got on board and so uh you know in terms of just wondering how much can Kelly improve he’s got the extension

Um I think the just getting away from the charge a little bit um you know he’s not going to be you know jumping Above the Rim blocking shots but I think he can be a bit more uh of a verticality guy I think he I think verticality comes down to like

Smarts and positioning um he’s already positioning himself for the charge and so I think uh doing a bit more of that as opposed to you know either getting sidest stepped and you know sometimes giving up an ones without much of a contest or you know just getting there

Late um or frankly just doing it too early um is it not to the Scotty degree where he’s trying to throw guys off uh but uh I think that’s one thing I kind of am looking at now and saying what are the opportunities for Kelly to improve

Defensively yeah yeah I mean I do think one of the things that will improve his defense it’s just like having better Defenders around him and more competent players and it’s not so in incumbent upon the team to score a bunch of points just to stay alive as a

You know you know or they’ll have more ability to score a bunch of points stay alive when he’s on the floor I should say um but yeah you know it’s interesting to see you know we think about development through the lens of oh early 20s guys but can you sprinkling

Little bits of development for guys who are way further developed and you know they’re incentivized to try to do that with Kelly he’s gonna be around for at least two more years so um that’s a good one I like that pull my is just uh no more jamas Ramsey I’m gonna miss his

Dunks man uh the 10day has been handed over now to Kobe Simmons who’s been playing with the 905 um you know I don’t really have a strong opinion one way or another these guys are probably not fit for the future anyway but uh jamas Ramsey seemed like he was doing some

Stuff and you know got a start thought it was a little curious that he didn’t figure into the plans at least for another 10-day deal but you know these are this his roster turn at its best and hey maybe the Raptors come back and reward Ramsay with some you know two-way

In the summer something like that they clearly like the guy um had him around and it’s nice for a guy to get a shot and we’ll see but that’s there’s not a whole lot to add to it it’s 10day guys getting turned around it’s just the way

It goes but uh a little surprising because I thought Ramsey was doing some stuff and you know do they need like a 29th player to have played for them this season are they’re going for some kind of record of number of players to play for a team in a year maybe that’s what

They’re gunning for here but it is what it is probably doesn’t tangibly change things change things all that much down the line uh I will say though MC mclung watch your ass jamah Ramsay’s coming for you he’s got that NBA credential now he can come and uh join the dunk contest

And have just as much of a case to being in it as two-year g-league player ma mclung we will leave it there thank you so much for tuning in you have anything you want to promote for the good people out there big V uh usual stuff sportset

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Certainly reckon with that question will they win another game this season that’ll all come up on tomorrow’s show thanks so much for hanging bye-bye we might have to pull that one to video review I don’t know I don’t know TBD on that one we’ll talk to you tomorrow that’s another tease bye

In Episode 1601, Sean Woodley is joined by Vivek Jacob (Raptors in 7, Sportsnet) to break down the Toronto Raptors’ losses to the Oklahoma City Thunder and Washington Wizards that pushed the team’s losing streak to 10 games, revisit the Norman Powell for Gary Trent Jr. trade 3 years later, and more. Off the top, Sean and Vivek chat about Gradey Dick and Ochai Agbaji serving as the bright spots during the Raptors’ 0-2 weekend against the Thunder and Wizards. Next, they chat about Gary Trent Jr.’s return to the lineup on Saturday, and reflect upon the GTJ for Norman Powell trade three years since it went down. Lastly, they run through The Good (Agbaji, Garrett Temple getting run), The Bad (refs taking a night off, losing 10-games in a row and the dread of staring down a lotto coin flip) and The Hmmmm (Can Kelly Olynyk’s defense develop? Jahmi’us Ramsey’s replaced on a 10-day by Kobi Simmons) to round out the show.

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