Raptors-Warriors Game 1 - ALL-DEFENSE Breakdown of Toronto Raptors Defense in 2019 Championship Run 

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GASOL did a tremendous job by reading plays and pressuring shooters even at 3ft away from the arc 🔥

How Lowry hasn't made an all-defensive team is beyond me. Either way this teams defense is a masterpiece, and should be talked about more. Great video as always.

This was probably the best game of Siakam's career to this point, especially when you take its importance into consideration! You can see how effective FVV is on Curry at times, and that set the stage for the rest of the series. Fred's ability to get around screens is huge on a guy like Curry, and his on-ball defense makes him formidable when Curry does eventually get the ball into his hands. But really, the defense the Raptors played was a total team effort, with multiple guys stepping up to try and keep Curry and Klay from getting open, and then the rest of the defense helping and rotating to fill in the gaps. Gasol was particularly incredible in that aspect.

LOL "drive by swipe" That is so Lowry

The next time someone says the raptors got lucky in the finals, im gonna show them this, there is no such thing as luck, even if klay and kd didnt get injured, im sure the raptors would have been ready for it

Marc Gasol's defense was elite. Former NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award winner.

I wonder if Fred ever gets an All-Defense nod. It looks like Lowry won't get one despite being one of the top guards on that end of the floor but part of the reason why Fred got his FMVP vote was because of how well he guarded Steph. Fred's elite defensively, probably the best little defender since Chris Paul.

I think the warriors were ready and had a gameplan on how to deal with all the raptors players, but i think they overlooked vanvleet, they didnt think he would be such a physical and annoying defender, they also thought because of his size he wouldnt be able to keep up with them, but he never backed down

As suffocating as the Raptors Def was, I gotta give props to Steph and Klay. FVV was Steph's shadow for practically the entire finals and he still manages to put up numbers. I swear every time Steph took a 3 I had a mini heart attack.

Nice! I've been really excited for the finals since you started this series. I heard a great deal about Vanvleet's defense in the finals and since i didn't get to watch the games live I'll finally be able to see what everyone was going on about. And what he got the MVP vote for.

Great video as always, Brad. Thank you.

Fred Vanvleet is one of the few players to be able to stick with curry. Curry still had success, but that's as good as you can get.

Gasol has always been great reading what gsw want to do, even in his grit and grind days, beating them when healthy

Great breakdown.

This off-ball movement by raptors is beautiful.

I see a lot of people saying a healthy warriors team would sweep the raps or beat them in 5, but this vid shows why we would have an actual chance. Unlike most if not all teams that faced the warriors, the raps defense can manage the warriors stars to a much higher degree. Assuming everyone on the raptors is healthy (considering we’re setting the parameters that the warriors are completely), the raptors would have siakam, kawhi and og (three 6’7-6’10 wings with 7’2-7’3 wingspans who have the whole package defensively) ready to defend 6’11 kd and contest his jump shots. Not to mention the plethora of high iq, high quality guards defending curry and Thompson with the paint presence the raps have and the warriors lack. Also dint forget what nick nurse would do in terms of adjustments. A healthy raps vs healthy warriors would go no less than 7 and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the raptors come on top

It's funny how everyone assumed Marc Gasol was Enes Kanter. Gasol could actually come up to level with steph.

Here we go

have you looked at the differences between our defence with and without kawhi?

ELITE ELITE ELITE

Anyone who says Raps were lucky and would have gotten swept by GSW is being ridiculous. In 2015, Love and Kyrie were injured. In 2017, Kawhi was injured. In 2018, CP3 was injured.

Siakam proved why he’s the franchise player this game 🔥

I want to see vids on teams other than the Raptors

more breakdown pleeeeease....

outstreet balled.... you penetrate? charge, you fancy handle? poke steal, open pass? anticipation steal.... drive kickout relocate? help and closeout.... I bet the warriors were thinking... what do we have to do to grab a bucket? myaaaaa F**k it ... lets go out on our shields.... Okay you mean play injured? Ughhh brahhhh that's a bad idea

Warriors were caught unprepared. They never thought how good the raptors defense was. The best defense they faced was probably the rockets and never really faced a good defense (Cavs defense was atrocious and terrible). They never faced a defense like the raptors. Raptors had long defenders and mobile defenders. And they were unique

Imagine if kawhi stayed with OG healthy... Jesus Christ! Raptors would have walked backwards to the finals. 🤦‍♂️

1st offensive possession for the Golden State Warriors. 😀😀😀 Ball passed to Power Forward off a Zipper Cut, fake Dribble Handoff and tries to attack then kick-out pass to Andre Iguodala = the spot that would have been Kevin Durant. Iguodala doesn't shoot 3-pointers like Kevin Durant. GAME OVER.

Yo what happened to your videos bro

I'm a little bit late