in exchange for young guard Gary Trent Jr. and veteran swingman Rodney Hood.over being traded from the only NBA team he’s known since a draft day trade in 2015 .
In that debut contest, Powell impressed, scoring 22 points on an efficient 7-of-13 shooting, including a 5-for-7 mark from deep to help the Blazers pace the Orlando Magic, 122-105. Still, though, 20-point-per-game scorers who boast a true-shooting percentage close to 65 per cent don’t come around too often, so he will be missed on a Raptors team that has now lost 10 of its past 11 games -- including another heartbreaker on Friday night -- and are mired in 11th place in the Eastern Conference.
“He certainly had a good [first] game. I saw most of it this afternoon, he played really well. Looked like he went right from here to there and stayed hot. So, I’ll dig into it a little more game-plan wise and see what we can come up with.” COVID protocols have been the main culprit for the slump the Raptors have been in since just before the all-star break but, according to Nurse, the situation that Bembry and Watson are dealing with is different than the one that sidelined Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby, Malachi Flynn and McCaw before.
loung_s Between this game and March madness I need like 4 tvs lol.