March 2021. Coming off a nine-game losing streak, the Raptors attempted an electric shock by sending Norman Powell to the Blazers in exchange for Rodney Hood and Gary Trent Jr. By giving up on their winger, they lost a new active member from the epic of two years earlier, to the title of 2019.
A transfer that the current Clippers player is still struggling to digest today. “ I didn’t want to leave Toronto, to be very serious, I wanted to stay. I always had the feeling that the team we had, our youth, that hard core, could have become what Boston is today. », thinks the 30-year-old.
The latter thus thinks of Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby and of course Pascal Siakam, the generation of players who had gradually matured after having contributed to the quest for the title, alongside Kawhi Leonard.
” We had a solid group of guys. We were buzzing in Toronto thinking it would be our turn. Kyle (Lowry) and the others were getting old. We had lost Serge (Ibaka) and Mark (diesel), we thought it was going to be our turn. We were all progressing. Kyle was probably in his last year with the team, he was probably going somewhere else to play for the title “, continues Norman Powell.
“ We had the approach of telling ourselves that we would take over. Being traded hurt me, Fred too. One or two rookies and we were there “, maintains the winger still traded a year later to the Clippers, while VanVleet took the direction of Houston this summer. Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby are thus the rare representatives of the 2019 team. A team that never really recovered from Leonard’s departure to Los Angeles.
Norman Powell | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
2015-16 | TOR | 49 | 15 | 42.4 | 40.4 | 81.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 5.6 |
2016-17 | TOR | 76 | 18 | 44.9 | 32.4 | 79.2 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 8.4 |
2017-18 | TOR | 70 | 15 | 40.1 | 28.5 | 82.1 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 5.5 |
2018-19 | TOR | 60 | 19 | 48.3 | 40.0 | 82.7 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 8.6 |
2019-20 | TOR | 52 | 28 | 49.5 | 39.9 | 84.3 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 16.0 |
2020-21 * | All Teams | 69 | 32 | 47.7 | 41.1 | 87.1 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 18.6 |
2020-21 * | TOR | 42 | 30 | 49.8 | 43.9 | 86.5 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 19.6 |
2020-21 * | ORP | 27 | 34 | 44.3 | 36.1 | 88.0 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 17.0 |
2021-22 * | All Teams | 45 | 32 | 46.1 | 41.9 | 81.1 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 19.0 |
2021-22 * | ORP | 40 | 33 | 45.6 | 40.6 | 80.3 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 18.7 |
2021-22 * | LAKE | 5 | 25 | 50.8 | 54.2 | 85.7 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 21.4 |
2022-23 | LAKE | 60 | 26 | 47.9 | 39.7 | 81.2 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 17.0 |
Total | 481 | 23 | 46.5 | 38.6 | 82.7 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 12.1 |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = Minutes; Shots = Shots made / Shots attempted; 3pts = 3-points / 3-points attempted; LF = free throws made / free throws attempted; Off = offensive rebound; Def= defensive rebound; Tot = Total bounces; Pd = assists; Fte: Personal fouls; Int = Intercepts; Bp = Lost bullets; Ct: Counters; Points = Points.