Last night, it was the offense that totally weighed down the Raptors, who only converted 42% of their shots. A recurring problem for ten days now, even if the two previous outings before the meeting against the title holders, against Sacramento and Brooklyn (123 points at 50% on shots, then 116 points at 49%), were more satisfactory than this point of view.
In this, tonight’s match clearly constituted a strong regression, embodied by an all too predictable “box score”: Pascal Siakam (27 points) and Fred VanVleet (22 points and 8 assists) have, as so often, led the charge, and Scottie Barnes (17 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists) struggled valiantly.
Behind this trio, on the other hand, it was total nothingness, with the exception of a good entry from Malachi Flynnwho scored four award-winning shots, for 16 points overall.
But in this atypical workforce, where tall athletes are legion, but outside shooters a little less (13/33 in this area last night), the attack thus tends to very quickly fall into caricature. ” We do not apply what we are supposed to apply very well. » thus regretted Nick Nurse.
Raptors close to state of emergency
Then the Raptors coach to elaborate a little more (in the criticism) when he talks about the defense of his team, a point perhaps even more sensitive than the attack last night.
Like Draymond Green, who is shooting at 32% on 1.6 attempts per game behind the arc this season, who started his match with a 3/3 from behind the arc, on uncontested shots each time. More broadly, the Warriors did what they wanted in their opponents’ half of the field, converting 53% of their shots, including 18 of their 39 attempts from behind the arc (46%), like a Jordan Poole who made “Jurassic Park” his garden.
” First of all [pour repartir de l’avant], we will have to defend a little better than that. Tonight, it is certain that it was complicated » he added, while the Raptors this season, for the first time in five years, are not among the top fifteen defenses in the league (113.6 points conceded on 100 possessions, 20th of 30). ” It was bad, there aren’t many positives to take away. We constantly chased after them, without applying our plans. We had shown that we can defend at a high level, so we have to redouble our efforts soon, to get back to that level. »
The final word for Fred VanVleet, who wants to be a bit alarmist, while the Raptors, before starting a series of six complicated games, are clearly at a crossroads in their season. ” We are in a bad patch, and it must stop immediately. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Pascal Siakam | 20 | 35.6 | 47.5 | 34.6 | 76.9 | 1.8 | 6.5 | 8.3 | 6.9 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 24.3 |
| Fred Vanvleet | 24 | 36.8 | 38.6 | 33.2 | 86.8 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 6.3 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 19.1 |
| Og Anunoby | 26 | 36.7 | 47.5 | 33.1 | 83.3 | 1.4 | 4.5 | 5.8 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 19.0 |
| Gary Trent, Jr. | 25 | 31.3 | 43.0 | 33.5 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 16.9 |
| Scottie Barnes | 27 | 33.7 | 45.2 | 32.6 | 75.0 | 1.8 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 4.7 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 15.0 |
| chris butcher | 26 | 22.8 | 44.7 | 27.6 | 75.3 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 6.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 10.9 |
| Precious Achiuwa | 12 | 20.4 | 39.1 | 17.9 | 84.8 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 8.8 |
| Malachi Flynn | 18 | 13.4 | 42.6 | 48.0 | 84.6 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 6.7 |
| Otto Porter | 8 | 18.3 | 50.0 | 35.3 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 5.5 |
| Dalano Banton | 22 | 10.1 | 42.3 | 30.2 | 82.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 5.2 |
| Thaddeus Young | 27 | 17.2 | 54.0 | 21.1 | 81.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 5.1 |
| Juancho Hernangomez | 19 | 18.9 | 50.0 | 31.6 | 45.5 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 4.6 |
| Christian Koloko | 30 | 16.8 | 44.6 | 0.0 | 66.0 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 3.8 |
| Ron Harper | 2 | 3.9 | 50.0 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| Khem Birsh | 17 | 7.3 | 60.7 | 50.0 | 80.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 2.3 |
| Jeff Dowtin | 9 | 7.4 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.2 |
| Justin Champagnie | 3 | 3.6 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
