Toronto Raptors ALL-DEFENSE highlights vs Philadelphia 76ers - Round 2 Game 1

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The Raptors were locked in defensively, with great activity levels on the perimeter and beautiful positioning and rim protection down low. Big blocks from Kawhi and Serge, Lowry playing pesky D all over, Gasol quarterbacking and banging with the bigs, Siakam and Green flying all over the court.
Welcome to Toronto Maple Leaf Square transforms into Jurassic Park this time
of year. It's the conference semifinals of the NBA playoffs on TNT.
Marc Gasol told me you can count on me to be as physical as the refs will allow.
In his marquee matchup with Joel Embiid, Marc feels like he can assert himself
with his physicality on defense. He said anytime the two of them cross half-court
they will be fighting real estate. It's going to be a battle of physicality at
Greg Leonard has 11, Siakam has 10. 21 of Toronto's 23 points.
Butler tried to shake off the defender and this will get Marjanovic a touch mid-post.
Knocked away. Butler tracks it down. Shot clock winding down. Corner popped. Out of bounds.
13 consecutive field goals made by a team. That is incredible. Butler has it stolen by Leonard.
Simmons feeds it to Embiid. Clocked down. Embiid fading. Tough angle. Siakam a tremendous job.
Embiid. Corner by Serge. Backing in with a left.
Spins. Tries to clear. Offensive rebound. Raptors in a crowd. Green comes away with it.
Good resistance here from Ibaka that we thought he should have gotten in that magic series but
there is a difference in how they play in their defensive philosophies and that certainly played
out. Back to six as Butler rises up over Green. Green. Tremendous defense. Marjanovic sends it
to Ennis. Here's J.J. Reddick. Mobon looking for a handoff. Gets it back. Ennis. Three-point shot
doesn't go long. Rebound. Green tries to keep it alive. Harris. Tracks it down in the corner.
And an offensive foul. The toughness in the heart. The master disruptor. Embiid trying to
work against Gasol. Bolden. Driving. I guess he takes it. And just like we saw with Gasol
earlier, Kyle Lowry saw that coming. Here's Simmons up top. Fading. No shot there. Embiid.
Shot clock down. Long rebound. It's Lowry. Shot clock at six. Spinning. Tough angle.
Leonard with a rebound. Harris isn't going to be able to post up Kyle Lowry. Not many can.
Harris. And the passer Embiid batted away. Here's Baye. Their largest lead. 14. Philly led 7-2
early on. Shot clock violation. Amarkus all a part of it. There's over four games in a regular
season for three against the Sixers. He's a different player now. The confidence is just
way, way up. Butler chased off the line. Here's Harris. Turnover. How about Green coming out?
Raptors back up by nine. Here's Simmons. A double comes. Lowry steals it away.
Siakam scoops it up. Kyle still on the floor. Korkmas now sends it Embiid up fake.
That's a tremendous position. Amarkus all plays with his feet and makes himself big.
Fred with Siakam, Leonard, Gasol and Green. Annis looks on the inside.
Sends it to Korkmas. Ball fake. Swatted away. Off of Philadelphia. Toronto ball.
We have eight from the field. Here's Harris now.
That was an unbelievable block. Harris went into the body of Leonard. 2.43 left here in the third.
Harris now trying to make a move. Siakam, tremendous defense with that length.
Yeah, got ahead of him. Didn't leave his feet. Clock down. Here's Butler. Long rebound. Kawhi
wants it. That's his eighth. Here's Simmons attacking. Great use of the feet by Siakam
staying with him. They're getting better and better at it. Nice job by Kyle rocking that away.
Swats it away. He's playing with four fouls. Here's Ibaka. Slam dunk. He's able to recapture it.
And he kicks it out of bounds. It's Toronto basketball. High on Butler. Simmons back to
Butler. Misses at the rim. It's been over three minutes since Philadelphia Leo has scored. They're
just 2-10 in the quarter. Raptors on a 7-0 run. Bolden on the inside. Oh, Serge Ibaka. Shot clock
violation. Serge with the recovery. The denial out of nowhere. Redick gets it to Bolden. Bolden's
going to look to get it back to JJ. Kawhi Leonard trying to keep JJ from getting that ball. You see
here in that situation, Norm Powell, he's making the offense work. He's going to do it. The Raptors
take game one in dominant fashion led by Kawhi Leonard and Pascal Siakam.
