Toronto has a chance to pull ahead of Atlanta during two-game set in Charlotte, but the Hornets are playing free and easy.
where all kinds of otherwise nondescript players put up big numbers late in a lamentable season. “As teams start to shut down, you’ve got a lot of prideful guys over there. You got guys that are playing for a lot of different things, playing for a position, more opportunity.”
The Hornets have won three of their last four games and they haven’t been facing stiffs. They dealt the Dallas Mavericks two blows to their playoff hopes with back-to-back wins and then went on the road to beat Oklahoma City. Their season is going to end with visions of the first pick in the draft and Victor Wembanyama dancing in their heads but that is a way off.
The Raptors are aware of the pitfalls of taking an opponent like the Hornets lightly. But whether they can summon the mental toughness to play to their potential remains the question. Toronto was good for three quarters and atrocious for one in aia, so their up-and-down tendencies can show themselves quarter to quarter rather than game to game.
The two games might be the best, last chance for the Raptors to move ahead of the Hawks. After leaving Charlotte, Toronto finishes with two games in Boston and a home date with Milwaukee; Atlanta plays at home against Washington and Philadelphia and finishes at Boston.. In his last two games, the second-year wing has averaged 25.5 points on 66 per cent shooting from the field while dishing out 20 assists against only two turnovers.
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