{"id":5804,"date":"2021-12-09T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2021-12-09T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:39:10","slug":"quick-reaction-thunder-110-raptors-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/09\/quick-reaction-thunder-110-raptors-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Reaction: Thunder 110, Raptors 109"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now if we ever figured out how to have any movement around him we\u2019d be in business, but that doesn\u2019t seem to be Nurse\u2019s priority who is content on going with iso-Pascal.<\/p>\n<p>Got the start and was\u2026good? No, seriously, he wasn\u2019t a complete trainwreck.<\/p>\n<p>He also is significantly more confident shooting the three and gone are the days where he used to pass up open looks.<\/p>\n<p>Hit a couple threes late in the fourth in the comeback that went nowhere, but man, he was SHUT DOWN by Dort who is a great on-ball defender.<\/p>\n<p>Had the step-back and the side-step working, and didn\u2019t force the issue when help came on the drive.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the rest of the team, he\u2019s active but ineffective in stopping penetration, and prone to not seeing action underneath, leaving passes from opposing PGs easy to pick out.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the point of length if it doesn\u2019t buy you a leg up? This all could be acceptable if we were just good at stopping the three, but even there OKC is lighting us up at 17-40 .<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.raptorsrepublic.com\/2021\/12\/08\/quick-reaction-thunder-110-raptors-109\/' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener\">&#8230;Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now if we ever figured out how to have any movement around him we\u2019d be in business, but that doesn\u2019t seem to be Nurse\u2019s priority who is content on going with iso-Pascal. Got the start and was\u2026good? No, seriously, he wasn\u2019t a complete trainwreck. He also is significantly more confident shooting the three and gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[115],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"custom":{"td_video":"","featured_image":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5804_img.jpg","author":{"name":"James Lanford","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/95fd45700489893a54c9c20357ef1a6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"categories":[{"term_id":3,"name":"RN24x7","slug":"rn24x7","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1682,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1682,"category_description":"","cat_name":"RN24x7","category_nicename":"rn24x7","category_parent":0}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptorsnation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}