![]() ![]() ![]() Pascal Siakam had 19 points and six boards. Kyle Lowry added 21 points and nine rebounds and forced the big turnover in the dying seconds. VanVleet scored 14 of his 24 points in the third quarter in the Raptors' grind-it-out win. And he was able to do that with some big dunks and that one in the second quarter in particular was huge for us." he's probably got an extra 20, 30 inches on his vertical than I do, so I wanted him to attack those same gaps that I (was seeing) and rise up. "He can get hard on himself when he doesn't play up to his standards," VanVleet said. On an ugly afternoon for the Raptors, they needed Powell, and he delivered off the bench, also scooping up a loose ball for the game-clinching dunk with 5.6 seconds to play. "I work a lot on my mental side and staying focused and locked in and just letting the game flow and I feel like in the playoffs nothing else matters, I'm just able to focus in on what we have to do." ![]() ![]() "It's just about focusing on what we've gotta do, staying present, staying within yourself, and staying confident in your abilities and taking what the game has given you," said Powell. Powell scored most of his 24 points in a spectacular array of dunks to lift the Raptors to a 104-99 victory over the Nets, and a 2-0 lead in their opening-round playoff series. "I told Norm before the game this felt like a Norman Powell game," VanVleet said afterward. Norman Powell took a pass from Fred VanVleet with a couple of minutes to go in the Toronto Raptors' narrow victory over Brooklyn on Wednesday, and blew past Jarrett Allen for an uncontested dunk. ![]()
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