On January 25, Beijing time, the NBA Development League regular season continued, the Raptors 905 team defeated the Knicks 112-105, this game 905 team has three members of the Raptors, these three are Yuta Watanabe, Flynn, And Benton. (Flynn's contract with Yuta Watanabe both expires this summer, and Banton is the rookie with the 46th pick in the second round in 2021, and his contract is two years.)
Yuta Watanabe, a pre-game Raptors player in this game, took the initiative to apply to coach Nick Nas to play in the development league, and he revealed that the reason he applied to play in the G League game was that he had not played much time recently, and he hoped to play more games to train himself. I have to say that Yuta Watanabe is worthy of the light of Asia, he trains hard, plays hard, fights for the opportunity to play, and tempers in the G League is better than no game time.
When he arrived in the G League, he must have been the core directly starting first, Watanabe played the first three position in the 905, his position at the Raptors changed a lot, 2-4, when Sika was injured, he even played the fifth position of the small lineup, but in the G League his position was the third position, and he was also particularly relaxed in the position he was most familiar with.
In the 39 minutes of the game, he shot 8 of 18, 4 of 10 three-pointers, 2 of 2 of 2 from the free throws, had 24 points, 10 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals, 4 blocks, shooting 44.4 percent from the field and 40 percent from three-point range, and his score was second only to Banton's 31 points (12 of 18, 3 of 7 from three).
Yuta Watanabe has actually played a lot of good games with the Raptors this season, and he has played in four doubles in five games from December 14 to December 29, including 11-of-20 against the Cavaliers, 2 of 5 from three points, 26 points, 13 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 block, 5% shooting percentage, 40% three-point shooting, but I don't know that later Nas cut the rotation to fully impact the playoffs Watanabe's appearance time became very rare.
Watanabe knows that to continue to play in the NBA needs more data support, NAB averaged 16.9 minutes per game, scored 5.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.47 steals, 0.53 blocks, shooting 38.4%, three-point shooting rate of 34.5% Data is difficult to impress NBA teams, he automatically applied to go to the G League for training, then as long as he can maintain good form, there is hope to continue to sign after the expiration of this summer's contract.
Text/Yan Xiaobai