Prepping for a weekend without Quickley & Toxic Positivity Friday! w/ Es Baraheni

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The Toronto Raptors are likely to be without starting point guard Immanuel Quickley when they take on the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday on the first night of a weekend back-to-back; what should head coach Darko Rajakovic do with his rotation if his lead guard isnt' available? In Episode 1734, Sean Woodley is joined by Esfandiar Baraheni (The Athletic NBA Daily) to talk about what the Raptors might be able to do to optimize a very thin rotation against the Sixers on Friday before debuting a new weekly segment on the show: Toxic Positivity Friday! Off the top, Sean and Es talk about the Raptors' injury woes, why Jamal Shead getting heavy run could be a silver lining of the unjury bug hitting the team so hard out of the gate, lineups they'd like to see get some run, and Scottie Barnes' capacity for a bounceback effort after going 3/14 in the opener. Next, they debut the new weekly Friday segment on the show: Toxic Positivity Friday (TPF for short), where they put the blinders on to all the bad stuff that happened and juiced about the little kernels of good we saw in Toronto Raptors basketball this week. Off the top, they chat about Jamal Shead turning heads, Jamison Battle's three-point marksmanship and the promise of this batch of rookies, before wrapping the show with some thoughts on Gradey Dick broadening his horizons and a quick round or two of "What Sound Did You Make?!"

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