"An awful end to the first quarter for Toronto. They lost intentionality on offence and effort on defence, getting beat to loose balls. And it wasn't Boston's stars beating them over that three- or four-minute stretch, but the B Team. Boston started killing the Raptors on the glass. Toronto seemed to let its offensive troubles impact its defence, which turned what would have just been a drought into a big run for the other team. Rough."
"Murray-Boyles and Barnes both got beat with simple back screens on inbounds plays, leading to uncontested Boston layups on BLOB sets. Bad. Something positive: When Ingram plays like this off screens, he's such an insane weapon. He doesn't need a lot of touches or dribbles, and he blends his scoring punch into the fabric of Toronto's offensive possessions. Basically Darko Rajakovic's lab-designed wing scorer, doing so much of his work with his legs, before he gets the ball."
Toronto collapsed late in the first quarter, losing offensive intentionality and defensive effort while getting beaten to loose balls and on the glass by Boston's bench. Offensive struggles appeared to erode defensive focus, converting a brief drought into a large opposing run. Toronto responded at the end of the second quarter with more physicality and livelier offensive actions but failed to sustain that energy later. Murray-Boyles and Barnes were exposed by simple back screens on inbounds plays, producing uncontested BLOB layups. Brandon Ingram stood out as an elite off-screen scorer who requires few touches and integrates scoring into team possessions.
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