The Toronto Raptors were led by Kyle Lowry and OG Anunoby in their seeding game opening win against the Los Angeles Lakers
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00:00The Toronto Raptors looked to be in mid-season form last night against the Los Angeles Lakers.
00:07Kyle Lowry was everywhere for the Raptors, hitting pull-up threes and reverse layups
00:12for a game-high 33 points.
00:14He even added a game-high 14 rebounds for Toronto.
00:18Well, you know, he was vintage Kyle tonight, Doug.
00:22I mean, he was scoring and flying around and taking charges and competing and, you know,
00:29getting us, you know, some critical buckets to kind of keep things ticking over.
00:33He was great.
00:34For O.G.
00:35Ananobi, the improvements he showed in the Raptors' scrimmage games may not have been
00:39a fluke.
00:40He scored seven of the Raptors' first 13 points, including a Pascal Siakam-esque spin-a-rama
00:47around Anthony Davis.
00:48O.G. was unbelievable.
00:49I said to him, you know, those two big threes after Brian hit his threes and O.G. came back
00:55and hit two big threes.
00:56His growth, his maturity, his maturity just continued to get better and I'm proud of him.
01:00The one thing about O.G., man, is, you know, guys understand him as much as they want to,
01:05but he's going to be really good in this league for a long time.
01:09But it might have been the Raptors' defense that was most impressive Saturday night.
01:14Their rotations were nearly flawless as they held the Lakers to their worst shooting night
01:18of the season.
01:20Even LeBron James had to hand it to the reigning champs.
01:23I think it's a great team.
01:24I mean, they won the championship for a reason, you know, and it wasn't just all solely because
01:30of Kawhi.
01:31And obviously you see that.
01:32Us, I feel like we played well to beat them tonight.
01:35We just didn't have enough shots to go in and then they executed and they hit some shots,
01:40you know, that we weren't able to hit.
01:42So, you know, sometimes it can be a make-or-miss league, but you don't take any credit away
01:49from the Raptors.
01:50They played extremely well.
01:51The Raptors will have the day off before returning to the court on Monday for a 1.30 p.m. Eastern
01:57tip-off against the Miami Heat.