Today at 1:00 p.m. ET the Brooklyn Nets will try to win a Game 7 on the road in Toronto, where the Raptors hope to continue their "Northern Uprising." Watch the game on ABC or live stream it free by clicking this link. Listen to the action from the Air Canada Centre on TSN 1050 while Nets fans may do likewise on WCBS 880 AM.
The Nets took care of business at home in a big way in Game 6, making Nets big man Andray Blatche awfully confident for his team's chances of seeing Round 2. "We guarantee it," Blatche said after Friday's game. "We're gonna go there (Sunday), take care of business and go to Miami."
Raptors point guard Greivis Vasquez took offense, telling reporters, "Who does he think he is?" Vasquez said Saturday. "He's not KG or Paul Pierce or Jason Kidd. We're not going to listen to his nonsense."
Brooklyn point guard Shaun Livingston thinks the team as a nice formula to work with that was discovered in the Game 6 rout. "We kind of found a structure that works for us," Livingston said. "Our confidence is high. We know we can go into that building and get a win. I think we're built for that."
That formula includes Deron Williams playing well. The trend of Brooklyn's performance running off their star guard continued in Game 6, with D-Will dropping 23 points, five rebounds and four assists. When Williams has topped 20 points, the Nets have won every game.
Meanwhile for Toronto, DeMar DeRozan has been the top gun with two 30-point performances, and a 28-point effort in Game 6. For the series, he's averaging 24.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists. He also believes the Nets will be weighed down by expectation today.
"Yeah, man," DeRozan said. "We ain't got not 100 million payroll or whatever they got. That's all on them. At the end of the day, they have more to lose than us."
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