Raptors will have Marc Gasol back, but no Patrick McCaw

The Toronto Raptors will have Marc Gasol back in action tonight but will be without Patrick McCaw against the Portland Trail Blazers

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00:00 As the Raptors get set to take on the Portland Trail Blazers tonight in their

00:03 second scrimmage game, there are three things that I'm going to be paying

00:07 attention to. Number one is what does Marc Gasol look like? It's been four

00:11 months since we've seen the big Spaniard play in a game and pictures of him

00:15 suggest he's got a totally different body. He slimmed up a lot and looks like

00:19 prime Marc Gasol according to Terrence Davis. It'll be interesting to see him

00:23 play tonight and Nick Nurse says he's expecting to go to the jumbo lineup

00:27 pretty early tonight against the Trail Blazers. Number two is kind of

00:31 interesting because Patrick McCaw is out tonight with an injury. It'll be his

00:35 second straight game he's missing and that's going to give some opportunity

00:38 for Terrence Davis and Rondae Hollis Jefferson to prove that they deserve the

00:43 eighth man role in the Raptors rotation. And the last thing I'm going to be

00:47 looking for is rust. There's still expected to be some rust on this team

00:51 and there will be for the foreseeable future, but last time out there was

00:55 certainly some rust on Pacil Siakam. That's the kind of thing that the

00:58 Raptors are hoping to develop over the next little while as they eventually get

01:02 into the seeding games and start the playoffs. I don't expect them to be

01:04 totally in tip-top shape until the playoffs start, but you want to see a

01:07 little bit of progression before the seeding games and certainly before the

01:11 playoffs. So those are the three things I will be looking for and the game will

01:15 tip off at 6 o'clock tonight on Sports Night.

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