There must have been more than a few eyebrows raised when the Toronto Raptors went deep, deep, deep down the bench to throw Malcolm Miller into the fray Friday night in Washington, searching for someone to hold the fort for a few second-quarter minutes while the team got on track. But from wherever he was watching the game, Dan Tolzman, the team’s director of scouting and the general manager of the G League Raptors 905, had to be smiling a knowing smile. Tolzman knows Miller, six-foot-seven and 210 pounds, has a chance to be a real contributor at some point, one of those gems the Raptors just seem to keep finding and nurturing. “We got to keep looking at him because he can make shots, he’s smart, he’s long. “He’s long, knows how to play, he’s (soon to be) 25 years old, he’s played overseas so he’s seen everything.

Source: thestar March 03, 2018 22:41 UTC