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MINNEAPOLIS — The Toronto Raptors are finally at full strength and Fred VanVleet is going to do his best to keep it that way.

If the coaching staff tells VanVleet he is on a minutes restriction, as he was on Saturday against the Timberwolves, well the intense competitor is going to listen, even if he hates sitting. VanVleet is learning from a past mistake.

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“I think with the first minutes restriction I had with my knee there I probably had the wrong approach with it,” VanVleet said of earlier this season.

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“So just trying to be a little smarter with it this time around but I think playing at ease like that allowed me to not press and just let game come to me.

“I was fighting it too much, pushing it too much (last time). Me and (Raptors medical grand Poobah Alex McKechnie) went back and forth a bit. It was a different injury, obviously but I wanted to come back full force and it affected me, I was thinking about it when I was out there – I was thinking about when I was coming out rather than just playing.” This time VanVleet will do what his body tells him it can and not more than that.