Next Friday, Fred VanVleet and the Raptors host the Pistons. And the atmosphere within the Scotiabank Arena will perhaps be a bit tense between the local public and the playmaker. The latter, earlier in the week, attacked his own fans.
” The public and the city will reflect what we do. When you play like shit, the audience is shit and vice versa. When we play our basketball, when we get into it, when we put the energy and the right state of mind, an atmosphere of winning, we can all feed on it », formulated the 29-year-old playerat the club since 2016.
This season, this atmosphere is struggling to establish itself among the Canadiens. With a modest record of 35 wins and 38 losses, Nick Nurse’s men are already out of the running to reach direct qualification in the playoffs. They should rather have to settle for a “play-in”.
” It’s also the other way around sometimes. The public is very anxious. We have to do our part to create the right atmosphere and the right type of game, and the public will follow. It’s an environment where it’s hard to win when things are going well “, continues the best passer and second best scorer of the team.
With 23 wins and 14 losses, Toronto is one of the most serious teams in the league at home. This record is certainly worse than that displayed in the year of the title, in 2019 (32 wins – 9 losses). But the Scotiabank Arena displays one of the fill rates the highest in the league.
But to hear Fred VanVleet, it’s not the number that counts…
| Fred VanVleet | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2016-17 | TOR | 37 | 8 | 35.1 | 37.9 | 81.8 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.9 |
| 2017-18 | TOR | 76 | 20 | 42.6 | 41.4 | 83.2 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 8.6 |
| 2018-19 | TOR | 64 | 28 | 41.0 | 37.8 | 84.3 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 4.8 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 11.0 |
| 2019-20 | TOR | 54 | 36 | 41.3 | 39.0 | 84.8 | 0.3 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 6.6 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 17.6 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 52 | 37 | 38.9 | 36.6 | 88.5 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 6.3 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 19.6 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 65 | 38 | 40.3 | 37.7 | 87.4 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 6.7 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 20.3 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 60 | 37 | 40.0 | 35.0 | 89.1 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 7.0 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 19.6 |
| Total | 408 | 30 | 40.4 | 37.5 | 86.7 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 14.5 | |
