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ON THE RECORD: What was mentioned after Raptors fell to NBA-leading Boston Celtics


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DARKO RAJAKOVIC ON 28 THREE-POINT MISSES, 1 OFF SEASON HIGH:

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“You guys (media) convey up that we don’t play defence, we begin enjoying defence, our offence is nice, then our offence is struggling. I imply, we shot 4-of-32 from the 3-point line tonight. I believed that it appeared like we have been getting beauty. The ball didn’t go in.”

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“Even contained in the paint, across the rim, first and second quarter, I believed we have been attending to the suitable spots. We didn’t make these. Them enjoying zone get us a bit of bit out of sync. Then we discovered the offence towards it to get extensive open pictures, and we simply didn’t make these pictures. Defensively, I believed that we did numerous good things there. We stored Jayson Tatum to 19 factors, and we stored this workforce to solely 5 offensive rebounds, which was large emphasis holding them off the glass, as effectively. We simply didn’t have sufficient energy offensively tonight.”

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RAJAKOVIC ON QUIET NIGHTS FOR PASCAL SIAKAM AND SCOTTIE BARNES:

“I imply, Scottie is the most effective when he’s in that assault mode. And I believed that he performed with numerous power on defence occasion tonight. And I’m unsure if that took away from some aggressiveness on the offence finish. He turned it on in the course of the fourth quarter. He was attending to the rim. He was scoring. He simply must discover a means the way to be each, the way to be good and elite defensively and the way to on the similar time to have an effect on offence”

“We tried to run some actions in direction of him, and he was looking for an open man, however he’s the most effective when he finds the movement inside the sport, when he’s working, when he’s offensive rebounding, when he goes into random post-ups, and punishes mismatches.”

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RJ BARRETT ONLY FINALLY BEING ABLE TO GET SETTLED FOLLOWING LONG TRIP:

“I’m nonetheless not settled but, however I hope to be quickly. However no, simply joyful to be residence. My household with the ability to come to all of the video games and stuff is nice.”

IMMANUEL QUICKLEY ON PLAYING THE CELTICS CLOSE:

“We don’t actually desire a pat on our backs for hanging round. I believe we’ve bought to attempt to proceed to make strides every day to make that subsequent step to get these wins. We’ve been hanging round with each workforce and that’s not what we wish to be recognized for. We wish to be recognized for successful. So, no matter it takes to attempt to proceed to get higher every day we’ve to do this and discover methods to be taught from every recreation to the place we win these kind of video games.”

QUICKLEY ON ADJUSTING TO BEING A STARTER:

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“My routine is rather a lot completely different. The whole lot is completely different from coming within the recreation and making an attempt to be sure that all people has a really feel and touches the ball a bit of bit, so all people can really feel in rhythm and all people’s energetic offensively and defensively as a result of when guys are feeling the ball, they get stops, they fly round and issues like that. To the time that I get on a courtroom I’m the final individual to shoot so all the things is completely different so far as beginning or not beginning. However I’m simply making an attempt to have the identical mindset, once I are available, and discover my teammates, discover spots to be aggressive and attempt to assist the workforce on defence and attempt to get wins.”

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