Josh Lewenberg

And they've clearly game-planned for

Brandon Ingram.

Well, in terms of the overall vibe, I mean, it's not dissimilar from the guy that led them back in 2019.

Now, Ingram is not Kawhi, but I don't mind the, like, in a lot of ways, I think that could help him at this time of the year.

The fact that he doesn't seem to get shaken very easily.

He plays at his own pace.

It's hard to kind of speed him up or slow him down.

Even the first half, like, I thought he was one of the things that was working for the Raptors, at least in the half court.

in the first half now a lot of those shots were really really tough and he made the point yesterday it's the playoffs he's not going to get open looks Dean Wade was forcing him to take really tough shots but that's one of the things about Ingram is he can hit those shots so I don't mind the personality the kind of the even-keeled low-key soft-spoken personality um but

Yeah, I mean, the comments were interesting.

It did kind of read like he was throwing Darko under the bus with the whole like coach wanted me to set screens and everything like that, because we know like there's still ways to score.

There's still ways to get shots off of screening to me like this wasn't so much offensively.

preparation issue I don't think in game one it wasn't for a lack of preparation maybe game planning because we could there's certainly some issues that I had with the game plan and we could talk about that but to me like more than anything else this was a team that wasn't

ready or maybe familiar enough with what playoff basketball entails in game one.

They got off to that hot start.

But the second they got hit in the mouth is when they, to use a word that Yaka Pearl used yesterday, they were discombobulated.

They weren't themselves.

They forgot how they won 46 games during the regular season.

They weren't running.

They weren't defending.