J.E. Skeets

You know, at times it would be Shedd or Obagi on him.

He'd blow by them, too big, too fast.

And then if Barnes got on him, you know, he could still either draw a foul or obviously set up other guys.

I mean, it was a masterclass from James Harden down the stretch there.

There was no Kawhi in that game.

So the Clippers took care of business in overtime.

He made a bunch of free throws to start overtime, and they got the business done, or they got the win.

On Sunday night, though, the Raptors, after all the football had wrapped up, Luka, LeBron, and Aiton crushed the Raps in the fourth quarter.

110-93 victory.

Raptors scored 13 points in the fourth.

And the Lakers, like a lot of teams we are now seeing here against the Raps, pulled out a whole lot of zone defense.

And they did it in the second quarter and Raptors just could not score on it.

We saw a lot more of it as the game went on.

And the Raptors are one of the worst teams at handling a zone defense.

I'm a little shocked why NBA teams don't just do it right from the jump.

They always wait for like a second or third quarter to do it.

But anytime they do against Raptors, it generally works.

They don't know what to do.

I mean, sometimes they figure out to get Scottie Barnes, the ball in the middle of the court, but then it usually just ends with like him shooting like a jumper.

And like, if you're the other team, you're going to live with that.