{"id":5250,"date":"2023-01-07T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/trail-blazers-vs-raptors-nba-game-preview-jan-8-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T07:04:09","slug":"trail-blazers-vs-raptors-nba-game-preview-jan-8-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/trail-blazers-vs-raptors-nba-game-preview-jan-8-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers vs. Raptors &#8211; NBA Game Preview &#8211; Jan. 8, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Portland Trail Blazers (19-19, 8th in Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (16-23, 12th in Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Toronto; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Bottom line: Portland will look to stop a six-game road skid when the Trail Blazers take on Toronto.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Raptors are 11-10 at home. Toronto is a Pascal Siakam-led paint averaging 12.3, with him scoring 51.0 points per game, putting him fifth in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Trail Blazers are 10th-13th. Portland ranks him third in the Western Conference with 37.9% from downtown. Gary Payton II paces the Trail Blazers shooting 100% from his range for 3 points.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Top performer: With the Raptors, Siakam&#8217;s shooting percentage is 47.2%, averaging 25.7 points. Fred VanVleet has averaged 16.7 points over his last 10 games for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Anfernee Simons is scoring 22.4 points and averaging 3.0 rebounds per game for the Trail Blazers. Damian Lillard has averaged 4.4 of her 3-pointers in the last 10 games in Portland.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Last 10 games: Raptors: 3-7, 109.7 points, 42.2 rebounds, 22.2 assists, 8.3 steals, 4.3 blocks, 43.5% shooting from the field. Opponents are scoring an average of 112.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Trail Blazers: 3-7, shooting 47.2% from the field, averaging 111.9 points per game, 43.6 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 7.0 steals, 4.3 blocks. Opponents are scoring an average of 112.7 points.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Injury: Raptors: Otto Porter Jr.: Out (toe).<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Trailblazers: Nasir Little: out (hip), Justice Winslow: out (ankle), Gary Payton II: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Associated Press produced this article using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiMGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZXNwbi5jb20vbmJhL3ByZXZpZXc_Z2FtZUlkPTQwMTQ2ODc1MtIBAA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Portland Trail Blazers (19-19, 8th in Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (16-23, 12th in Eastern Conference) Toronto; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST Bottom line: Portland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/401468752.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}