{"id":613922,"date":"2026-04-19T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613922\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:27:08","slug":"raptors-brandon-ingram-takes-just-nine-shots-from-field-in-game-1-loss-to-cavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613922\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors’ Brandon Ingram takes just nine shots from field in Game 1 loss to Cavs"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was an odd time for Brandon Ingram<\/a> to fade into the background on offence.<\/p>\n

The Toronto Raptors<\/a>‘ scoring leader was limited to just nine shots from the field \u2014 with only one in the second half \u2014 in the team’s 126-113 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ingram, who was five-of-nine for 17 points, finished just three games this season with single digits in field-goal attempts.<\/p>\n

When asked why he barely shot in the second half, Ingram said: \u201cCoach wanted to use me as a screener. Also he noticed that my man wasn’t coming off of me, so he wanted me outside of the action a little bit and being a receiver. But at the end of the day, me shooting nine shots is not going to win basketball games, so I\u2019ve just got to figure out ways where I can still be effective while they’re doing whatever defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingram did get to the foul line 10 times (hitting seven), so his field-goal attempt total could have been higher.<\/p>\n

But it was still unusually low usage for an All-Star who averaged 16.7 shots from the field this season with a 21.5-point scoring average.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried to deny me the ball every time that I went down the floor. Obviously, they knew most of the stuff that we’ve been running all year.\u00a0I think that’s just a part of the playoffs,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got to figure out how to make the adjustment next game, and let that not be too effective.”<\/p>\n

Coach Darko Rajakovic, meanwhile, sounds like he wants to try to get more out of Ingram in Game 2 on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to do a better job of executing, freeing him up, playing to our standard of ball movement,\u201d he said. \u201cWe did not do a good enough job of running our stuff with pace. We did not do a good enough job to involve Brandon. Some of that is on me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an odd time for Brandon Ingram to fade into the background on offence. The Toronto Raptors‘…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-613922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}