Coach Darko Rajakovic, Ja’Kobe Walter on what went wrong for Raps in Boston Celtics loss
"It was a tight game, starting in the fourth quarter there," said Rajakovich.
The Boston Celtics are hard to play on both ends of the court, currently the owners of the NBA's second-best offensive rating and eighth-best defensive rating in the league. And that fact was not lost on Toronto Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic, who had plenty to say about the ball club that defeated his 115-101 Sunday (April 5) afternoon. "It was a tight game, starting in the fourth quarter there," he explained.
"I thought their best players made the plays they needed. It was in isolation, it was in one-on-one. It was them knocking down some shots.
I thought overall, we did a really good job guarding the 3-point line, and at the end there, it was their drives to the rim and us not doing a good enough job of containing those drives. " The Raptors plan to take Boston big man Neemias Queta out of the game with Ja’Kobe Walter in particular went poorly, which Rajakovic acknowledged. "We were trying to ...
match up the right way with Queta to have more rebounding there, and try to keep match-ups. "(Walter), he was really helpful today. He did a really good job rebounding," said the Raps coach.