Trae Young leads Hawks past Raptors 125-104

Grabbing offensive rebounds was at the core of the Toronto Raptors' strategy as they looked for a second consecutive win against the Atlanta Hawks.

TORONTO – Grabbing offensive rebounds was at the core of the Toronto Raptors’ strategy as they looked for a second consecutive win against the Atlanta Hawks.

Things did not go according to plan.

Trae Young scored 38 points and had 11 assists to lead the Hawks past Toronto 125-104 on Friday as Atlanta snapped a five-game losing skid and leapfrogged the Raptors for 10th in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. Toronto had three offensive boards to the Hawks’ 16 and were outrebounded 55-32 overall.

“That was one of our emphases, that they’re a good offensive rebounding team,” said Scottie Barnes, who led Toronto with 23 points. “They sent a lot of guys to the glass but we knew we needed to box out.

“Even if they got some offensive rebounds, we still could have took advantage of that by getting the ball to the net and playing the right way.”

Jakob Poeltl and Pascal Siakam had 15 points apiece for Toronto (10-15). The Raptors had ended a four-game losing streak with a 135-128 win over Atlanta on Wednesday to overtake the Hawks in the standings but ceded 10th back to the visitors with Friday’s loss.

Two of Poeltl’s eight rebounds were offensive boards with Barnes grabbing Toronto’s other offensive rebound. Poeltl said the Hawks were crashing the glass hard all night.

“I think there was some unfortunate bounces as well, but I think for the most part, we just have to do a better job helping out,” he said. “It’s a little bit on everybody, especially with those long rebounds after how many threes that they shot.