Raptors hang on to win preseason thriller vs. Celtics | Barnes-Dick-Poeltl trio crushes & hope for the bench?

Locked On Raptors - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Raptors

The Toronto Raptors hung on for a thrilling 119-118 preseason victory over the defending champion Boston Celtics on Tuesday night as the trio of Scottie Barnes, Jakob Poeltl and Gradey Dick absolutely kicked butt. In Episosde 1727, Sean Woodley goes solo to react to the most entertaining Raptors preseason game to date, dig into why he's growing increasingly optimistic about the Raptors' starters being extremely good once Immanuel Quickley and RJ Barrett rejoin the team, the encouraging efforts of Davion Mitchell and Ochai Agbaji, and the Good, Bad & Hmmmm from Tuesday's action. Off the top, Sean gets into the gorgeous fit between Barnes, Poeltl and Dick, why Barnes' forceful aggression en route to 26-9-10 is the recipe for this Raptors to team to overachieve if he can sustain it, Poeltl being a master of space, and Dick's impressive 27-point effort that showed off his versatile scoring package. Next, Sean talks about the efforts of Mitchell (9 points, 3 threes, 10 assists), and Agbaji (16-5-3 on 7/11 shooting) as they each turned in their best games of the preseason. Is there a world in which the Raptors bench is merely mid and not terrible? Lastly, Sean runs through The Good (a thrilling preseason game!), The Bad (Jonathan Mogbo's putback dunk in the second quarter getting called back) and The Hmmmmm (the Raptors' staggeringly strange rebounding profile in the preseason).

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