Still struggling on offense and now predictable on defense, the Raptors are disappointing this season. With 16 wins for 21 losses, the Canadian franchise is in a soft underbelly: too strong to let go of the season already but too weak and irregular to aim for the first places.
To reverse this bad trend, President Masai Ujiri and GM Bobby Webster can obviously press the “transfer” button. Obviously, this is the scenario envisaged by the rest of the league.
According to information from SportsNet, Toronto will be the first domino. The other teams likely to move – Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas – before the February 9 trade deadline will follow the Canadians.
We think in particular of Jae Crowder in Phoenix or John Collins in Atlanta, names announced on the departure in recent weeks and who could only leave after the first movements in Toronto.
However, no one knows yet when the leaders of the Raptors will decide to activate. A few days before the transfer deadline, or the same day, or even in the last hours?
In the meantime, our colleagues speak of a certain “nervousness” that surrounds Nick Nurse’s team. There would be no major tension or malfunction, but the lack of results is logically felt.
So, a little change in the group and it starts again? Pascal Siakam has another solution. ” I can talk about positivity all I want, but winning heals everything. Absolutely everything. We have to find a way to do it.” announces the Cameroonian. Indeed, except that the Raptors have a hard time doing it.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Pascal Siakam | 27 | 37.1 | 48.5 | 34.2 | 78.0 | 1.8 | 6.5 | 8.3 | 6.7 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 3.3 | 26.5 |
| Og Anunoby | 33 | 36.8 | 47.1 | 35.3 | 83.8 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 18.6 |
| Fred Vanvleet | 29 | 36.7 | 37.6 | 32.7 | 87.7 | 0.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 6.0 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 18.1 |
| Gary Trent, Jr. | 30 | 31.5 | 44.9 | 36.4 | 79.8 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 17.9 |
| Scottie Barnes | 34 | 34.0 | 44.9 | 30.0 | 76.5 | 2.1 | 4.9 | 7.0 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 14.8 |
| chris butcher | 32 | 21.6 | 45.9 | 27.6 | 76.0 | 2.1 | 3.8 | 5.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 10.0 |
| Precious Achiuwa | 13 | 19.8 | 38.9 | 17.2 | 82.9 | 1.8 | 4.6 | 6.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 8.3 |
| Malachi Flynn | 25 | 15.6 | 39.0 | 41.3 | 80.0 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 6.4 |
| 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 | 33 | 17.1 | 54.8 | 18.2 | 73.7 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 5.0 |
| Juancho Hernangomez | 25 | 18.0 | 46.6 | 28.0 | 45.5 | 0.9 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.0 |
| Christian Koloko | 35 | 16.1 | 47.5 | 12.5 | 66.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 3.7 |
| 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 |
| Jeff Dowtin | 11 | 7.7 | 52.2 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.5 |
| Khem Birsh | 20 | 8.1 | 59.4 | 50.0 | 80.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 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 |
