We're not going to make it difficult, we know each other's game.'īlake Griffin scored 17 points to top the Clippers (34-14), who were playing without all-star guard Chris Paul for the eighth time in 10 games (bruised right kneecap).
It's just crazy, he knows my game, and I know his game, it's as simple as that. 'I've known Rudy for a couple of years now.
'A player of his calibre can do nothing but help us.'Īmir Johnson scored 19 points and tied his career-high of 16 rebounds for Toronto (17-30), DeRozan finished with 19 points, John Lucas added 17 points, and Kyle Lowry had eight assists. Gay poured in a game-high 20 points in 33 minutes in his Raptors' debut, mere hours after he touched down in Toronto. The more practice, the better we'll get.' 'I think for us to be really good, we have to have that kind of interaction together and it's just the start of it. 'DeMar is a great player, he's by far the best two-guard I've ever played with,' Gay said in the post-game dressing room. Twenty seconds later, DeRozan found a sprinting Gay again.Īnother big dunk, another roar of approval from the capacity crowd of 19,800 at the Air Canada Centre. Two minutes after the team's newest player checked in to the Raptors' 98-73 home rout of the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday, the explosive small forward took flight for a huge alley-oop dunk from DeMar DeRozan. It took all of couple of minutes for Rudy Gay to breathe new hope into Toronto Raptors fans.
