Josh Lewenberg
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And, yeah, they went away from Ingram.
So I think, like...
That's going to determine what the series looks like.
How much were they actually able to learn from game one?
What did they take out of it?
I don't think experience is the be-all and end-all at this time of the year.
It matters.
It's important, but it's not everything.
Ultimately, it's like how quickly can you...
learn on the fly and pick things up.
Like, to me, the disparity in experience here, obviously, in this series is massive, as big as I've ever seen in a series.
I mean, Donovan Mitchell and James Harden have nearly four times as much playoff experience themselves as the entire Raptors rotation, but it kind of reminds me of that 13-14 Raptors series with the young DeRozan-Lowry team against the Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett-led Brooklyn Nets.
The Raptors lost the first game in that series, too, but
They grew as the series went on and actually made that a competitive series.
And I think like tonight is going to tell us a lot about whether this is going to be a very short series or perhaps a more interesting one than we anticipate based on game one, based on how this Raptors team comes out and looks in game two.
I think the biggest problem is there isn't one thing.
There are many, many things.
It seems like the focus for them has been Brandon Ingram, though, which like a mixed feelings on that for me anyway, because like, as you mentioned, nine shots for a guy that you bring in to be the guy that's going to pop off, pop off the offense in games like this.
That's a problem.
And I can tell you, I've talked to a lot of people over the last couple of days saying,