Dowtin and Harper Make Most of Minutes in Preseason Win Over Jazz
Let's see what the junior boys - Jeff Dowtin Jr. and Ron Harper Jr. - showed us in the first game of pre-season.
Let's see what the junior boys - Jeff Dowtin Jr. and Ron Harper Jr. - showed us in the first game of pre-season.
Raptors 905 head coach Patrick Mutombo, has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Phoenix Suns.
Single-elimination playoffs means that the 905 had only one chance to beat the team that had defeated them 3 times. This was the matchup that worried me the most.
The NBA G League have announced the upcoming playoff schedule, and because the Raptors 905 finished the regular season with the best record in the Eastern Conference (and the entire G League) they have earned a bye that will allow them to bypass the first round.
The Raptors 905 returned home to take on the Greensboro Swarm for their final game of the regular season.
Having clinched a playoff spot, sitting at the top of the East with a league-best, and playing an eliminated team, the Raptors 905 had every reason to take it easy. They didn't.
Both the Hawks and the 905 play an incredibly fast-paced game, but it was the 905 who were in control of the tempo from early on all the way to the end of the game. Even up by 16, when the College Park stole the ball from Breein Tyree on a straight lane drive, Tyree was…
It was the chippiest game we've seen this season from the 905.
*Lets out long, exasperated sigh* It wouldn't be the Raptors or Raptors-adjacent if they didn't beat their biggest opponent one game, and then lose to a team they've already beaten twice this season the following game. After an important win over the Delaware Blue Coats on Saturday, the Raptors 905 fell to the Westchester Knicks Wednesday…
In a rare occurrence for the G League, both the Raptors 905 and the Cleveland Charge had all of their two-way players available.
It's very hard to beat the same team twice in a row, and even harder to completely blow them out of the water in back to back games. Basketball players, by nature, are ultra competitive. It is almost guaranteed that the opposing team, embarrassed after being utterly destroyed, will come back stronger and play harder…