The Toronto Raptors are one of the top teams in the NBA, but in an improving Eastern Conference, getting to the finals will be a difficult task.
Fortunately for the Raptors, they have a pair of players with championship experience on their roster in Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green.
The duo went to back-to-back finals with the San Antonio Spurs in 2013 and 2014, winning it all in the latter year.
So, both guys know what it takes to reach that point, and Green explained what Toronto has to do to achieve it:
“We have to gel and we have to execute,” said Green on his Inside the Green Room podcast, per Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype. “The biggest things are our maturity and our discipline, and I think Marc Gasol and Jeremy Lin will help with those things. Our coaches have been adjusting things throughout the year. We have the talent. We have the pieces. We just need to go out and execute. Hopefully we don’t let each other down. Hopefully we don’t let our coaching staff down and vice versa – hopefully the coaching staff doesn’t let us down. We all need to hold each other accountable and be mature and execute and learn how to close out games and, down the stretch, make the plays we need to make. We need to make the winning plays.”
On the season, Green is averaging 9.9 points and 4.1 rebounds over 28.7 minutes per game while shooting 45 percent from the floor, 42.8 percent from three-point range and 90.3 percent from the free-throw line.
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