This win could set the tone for a strong finish to Siakam’s season after some early struggles. This may not be Shaquille O’Neal putting up 61 points on his 28th birthday, but Siakam certainly turned 27 in style. Games like this, even with the degree of difficulty being what it was, show that when he’s got that interior game working, very few power forwards in the league are in his class from a purely offensive point of view. Siakam might be having another excellent season, evidenced by his career-high in rebounds and assists per game, but his scoring has decreased since last year. Taking advantage of the lack of Draymond and rookie James Wiseman at center, Siakam put up 36 points on 14-24 shooting while grabbing seven rebounds. Not to be outdone, Siakam, a +49 on the night, chose to put together arguably his best game of the season. If the Raptors do indeed view Trent as a key long-term piece for the next half-decade, nights like last night show what he is capable of. Not only was Trent shooting the lights out, but he was showing his value as a perimeter defender by dominating Golden State on the wing. Only Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, who was a +57 for the Houston Rockets in a 2017 win against the Denver Nuggets, can claim to have had a better plus-minus ratio in a single game than Trent. He would’ve broken most other NBA franchises’ records, as his performance was the second-best in NBA history, by that metric. Trent, who has 24 points and five rebounds on 8-14 shooting and 6-9 from 3-point range, was an astonishing +54 for the night, breaking Mark Jackson’s old franchise record. 1: Gary Trent Jr.’s plus-minus dominance. These 4 Toronto Raptors stats stand out as the craziest from last night’s win Raptors insane stat No. On a night where the Raptors led by as much as 60 and outscored the Warriors 81-30 in the second and third quarters combined, these four stats stand out as the most jaw-dropping tidbits from this magical night.īiggest margin of victory ever, Raptors win 130-77Īnd a weird year adds another weird moment Even though the Raptors led by just one at the end of the first quarter, they completely humiliated a solid Golden State team. Toronto won 130-77 in one of the most dominant performances you’ll ever see in an NBA game. With Golden State’s top offensive and defensive options out, Toronto smelt the blood in the water. Steph Curry sat the game out with a tailbone injury, and Draymond Green was an unhealthy scratch.
However, Gary Trent Jr., Pascal Siakam, and the rest of the Raptors were given a gift from the basketball gods before the game. The Toronto Raptors appeared to be a collection of dead men walking after winning just one game in the month of March, and a matchup against the Golden State Warriors didn’t look very promising.
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