Toronto Raptors under pressure: injured Pöltl ensures defeats!

Toronto Raptors under pressure: injured Pöltl ensures defeats!

The Toronto Raptors must continue to do without their Austrian Center Jakob Pöltl, who cannot play since the All-Star weekend due to a hip broken. In his sixth malfunction of the season, the Raptors lost 111: 120 after extra time against Miami Heat on Friday. This defeat was the eleventh that Pöltl had to miss this season, and the Raptors could only win a single game without him so far, which underlines their injury problems. The Raptors still led three points in the final minute, but had to give up the strong end of the heat, which dominated overtime with 13: 4. According to Krone , RJ Barrett and Tyler Herro were the best throwers of the game with 29 and 28 points.

game course and stats

In an exciting duel right at the beginning of the third quarter phase, the Raptors briefly won the lead, but Miami replied vigorously with a 19-2 run that laid the foundation for victory. Jimmy Butler was the decisive player with 26 points and a strong hit rate of 61% in the last five games. Bam Adebayo also contributed a triple double, consisting of 14 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds. Toronto was able to benefit from Scottie Barnes, who also posted a triple double, and Barrett, but that was not enough to conquer the heat. As AP News was the first game in the history of the Heat, in which at least two three players were at least two three-point cures made.

Due to the current performance development, the raptors are under pressure, especially since they have to compete against the Phoenix Suns on Sunday, while the Miami Heat found their shape and were able to improve again with the victory over the raptors.