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Originally Posted by fleury
And the Gasol deal isn’t looking good at all. Hindsight is 20/20 but if I were to do it all over I’d take Val.
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Yup, I called that when it happened. Gasol's defense on Embiid is great but the 76ers have countered by just bringing him out to the perimeter and saving his effort for defense and rebounding. With JV, Raptors could throw the ball into the post and have him go to work on an already banged-up Embiid and really grind him down. When the shots aren't falling, it helps to be able to just slow things down, pass it inside to your big, and let him go to work and create a high-percentage shot.
And then you throw in that the Raptors could desperately use a long perimeter defender and shot-creator off the bench, and that's exactly what they gave up in Wright.
I still think the Raptors come back and win game 7, but yeah, the losses this series have been exactly the style of game I was worried about when we made that trade.