The eighth and the last game on Wednesday for NBA Week 6 is between Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors. The opening tip-off is set to commence at 14:40pm with the game to be played at ORACLE Arena. The home team Golden State Warriors. View our preview and teams for the game between Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors.
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When: 14:40 | Wednesday 04/12/2013
Where: ORACLE Arena, Oakland, CA
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| Toronto Raptors | 3.75 | 3.60 | 3.70 | 3.60 | 3.75 | 3.70 |
| Golden State Warriors | 1.29 | 1.31 | 1.29 | 1.31 | 1.29 | 1.28 |
Teams:
Toronto Raptors:
| Num | Player | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Quincy Acy | ||||||
| 14 | D.J. Augustin | ||||||
| 13 | Dwight Buycks | ||||||
| 5 | Austin Daye | ||||||
| 10 | DeMar DeRozan | ||||||
| 2 | Landry Fields | ||||||
| 22 | Rudy Gay | ||||||
| 34 | Aaron Gray | ||||||
| 50 | Tyler Hansbrough | ||||||
| 15 | Amir Johnson | ||||||
| 7 | Kyle Lowry | ||||||
| 16 | Steve Novak | ||||||
| 31 | Terrence Ross | ||||||
| 77 | Julyan Stone | ||||||
| 17 | Jonas Valanciunas |
Golden State Warriors:
| Num | Player |
|---|---|
| 40 | Harrison Barnes |
| 20 | Kent Bazemore |
| 12 | Andrew Bogut |
| 30 | Stephen Curry |
| 21 | Dewayne Dedmon |
| 0 | Toney Douglas |
| 31 | Festus Ezeli |
| 23 | Draymond Green |
| 9 | Andre Iguodala |
| 1 | Ognjen Kuzmic |
| 10 | David Lee |
| 8 | Nemanja Nedovic |
| 7 | Jermaine O’Neal |
| 5 | Marreese Speights |
| 11 | Klay Thompson |
Preview:
Coming off a much-needed win, the Golden State Warriors are hoping they’ve put their recent struggles behind them.
A visit from the Toronto Raptors could help them take another step in the right direction.
The Warriors look to continue their recent success against the Raptors, who try to avoid a season-worst fourth consecutive defeat Tuesday night.
Golden State (10-8) had lost five of six before bouncing back with Sunday’s 115-113 win at Sacramento. Stephen Curry made a pair of free throws with 8.6 seconds left and Andrew Bogut blocked a potential game-tying layup in the closing moments.
The Warriors had dropped their previous two games by a combined five points, including Friday’s last-second 113-112 overtime loss at Oklahoma City.
“It’s been frustrating of late, not being able to close out games,” said Curry, who finished with 36 points and 10 assists. “Everyone pitched in. It was a good learning lesson for us to continue to stick to the program.”
Fellow guard Klay Thompson also came up big with 28 points while making a career-high eight 3-pointers. Thompson and Curry each recorded three steals as Golden State scored 33 points off a season high-tying 24 forced turnovers.
“I have a great backcourt with two guys that can light up a scoreboard,” coach Mark Jackson said. “The thing that I love most about them is people fall in love with shooting, which is the obvious, but they compete. They have really developed into a good defensive tandem. I thought both guys did an outstanding job on the defensive end.”
The Warriors will try to clamp down again versus the Raptors (6-10), who have averaged 93.7 points on 40.8 percent shooting during a three-game skid.
Rudy Gay had 23 points and nine rebounds while Jonas Valanciunas posted 18 and 11 in a 112-98 loss to Denver on Sunday. Toronto went up by as many as 15 in the first quarter but was outplayed down the stretch.
“Personally, I’m frustrated. Period. We’ve just got to figure it out and turn it around on the road,” said guard DeMar DeRozan, whose team opens a three-game trip Tuesday. “It’s correctable but we shouldn’t have to keep doing the same thing over and over before we realize that we are doing something wrong. We have to understand what we’re doing out the gate.”
The Raptors, who were outscored 50-38 in the paint and 18-7 in transition, have dropped nine of their last 10 when posting 11 fastbreak points or fewer. Toronto’s bench was also outscored 72-16.
“Our bench has got to give us something. Our guys (starters) can’t play for 48 (minutes),” coach Dwane Casey said. “The guys coming in have got to develop a toughness, a resilience of getting stops. And, it starts on the defensive end.”
The Raptors dropped to 1-8 when allowing at least 92 points. That doesn’t bode well for a team that’s surrendered 113.1 per game during a 3-12 stretch against Golden State.
Toronto will need to keep a close eye on Thompson, who averaged 20.5 points while going 7 of 12 from beyond the arc as the Warriors swept last season’s series. Thompson leads the NBA with 62 made 3s, and Golden State is 9-2 when he hits at least three.
“I let it fly,” he said. “That’s how I got to play – just let it fly and not think about it.”
The Warriors, expected to be without Andre Iguodala (hamstring) for a sixth consecutive game, have won 12 of 16 at home against Eastern Conference foes since the start of 2012-13.
Source: www.nba.com
