9:08 pm
March 9

Raptors @ Jazz

Who will WIN this matchup?

Toronto Raptors (44-18)

@ Utah Jazz (41-22)

 

Current odds:

Toronto Raptors: (+185)

Utah Jazz: (-220)

 

• The spread for the game is Utah by 5.5 points.

• Norman Powell scored 31 points, Kyle Lowry added 30 and Pascal Siakam finished with 23 in the win over the Kings to lead the solid play of the first unit, while five reserves continued a downward trend with a combined 2-of-14 shooting. “I don’t know what else to say other than there’s a group of them that were riding a wave of playing very well and now they’re in a little bit of a downturn,” coach Nick Nurse told reporters of the bench. “. … They don’t seem to be nearly as impactful. I don’t know what it is. They just, like I said, they look really uncomfortable out there all of a sudden.” The team became a bit deeper with the return of center Marc Gasol, who missed the previous 15 games with a hamstring injury, and standout guard Fred VanVleet is expected back from a shoulder issue this week.

• Bojan Bogdanovic followed up a rough game Friday at Boston by scoring 32 points on 12-of-18 shooting at Detroit, where Utah lost all of an early 22-point lead before surviving the stretch run. “NBA games, there’s lots of big leads that change hands,” coach Quin Snyder told reporters. “For us to respond the way we did was a really good thing.” Donovan Mitchell added 25 points and is averaging 25.1 since the All-Star break for the Jazz, who are a game out of third place in the West and 1 1/2 up on fifth-place Oklahoma City.

• Jazz SF Royce O’Neale is averaging 3.3 points in 30 minutes over the last three games while shooting a combined 3-for-18.

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Confidence
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