After going 5-1 in their last six games, and Scottie Barnes being named the Eastern Conference player of the week, the Toronto Raptors were back home. They played the New Orleans Pelicans Monday night, another bottom-of-the-table team at 12-34 on their season. It was a Cooper-Flagg-Off, of sorts.
Before the game, Coach Darko talked on Barnes’s defence, and how he deserves an All-Defence nod this season. Scottie has obviously been playing quite well, leading the Raptors to win three games in a row for the first time this season. Their recent stretch of five wins in six games is definitely good in the sense that winning is fun, but the tank enthusiasts are not exactly thrilled.