The Raptors received an absolute pasting at home on Friday night as the Golden State Warriors humiliated Dwane Casey’s side in a rout. The Warriors were up by as many as 41 before settling for a 24-point margin, 113-89.
Kyle Lowry continued his poor play going 1-7 in 19 minutes, with no assists and two turnovers. In February, Lowry is shooting 34% overall, 24% from three, and is averaging 5.3 assists and 2.9 turnovers. When prompted in his post-game press conference about whether Lowry’s continued ineffectiveness is a concern, Dwane Casey said:
It’s a concern just because it’s fatigue-driven. He’s got aches and pains that are bothering him, we’re going to find out a away to get him some rest, and get him healthy.
The Raptors also started Patrick Patterson instead of Amir Johnson, and Casey explained the rationale:
[It was because of] the matchup with Draymond Green. That was the reason why, a smaller matchup, gives us an offensive punch that we didn’t get.
On the game overall:
They’re a very good team. That was just a good ‘ol fashion woodshet butt-kicking, no excuses for that type of performance. Most of it was them and the other part was us, it’s just an old-fashioned butt-whooping from start to finish.
On Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan’s shooting:
I thought [DeMar] had some good looks, some good clean looks and he just missed them.
I thought Kyle had good looks in the first quarter, for whatever reason, they weren’t falling.
The Raptors face the Knicks in New York on Saturday night, and I hate to tell Matt Devlin but:
Knicks beat the Pistons in double OT tonight, so the back-to-back excuse goes out the window for tomorrow. CC: @Matt__Devlin
— Raptors Republic (@raptorsrepublic) February 28, 2015
