Raptor's D instinct

Raptors have decided to put all their efforts into half of their game and it is all offensive as they have scored 40 points a game in the paint for the month of March which was the fourth highest number for the month of March. Of course the Raptors players still have settled for jumpers and the ball is still very very sticky even in the hands of Rudy Gay who has been shot after shot and forgetting that the closer u get to the hope the better chance of the ball going into the basket. Last night when the Raptors lost to the Detroit Pistons 108-98 they proved that when they got the ball inside when down they make huge runs in the fourth quarter but then when they took the lead they went back to settling for jumpers as they now take 15 to 20 foot jumpers instead of threes from everywhere when they had the three-ball streak until it ended a couple of seasons back. Now if all their efforts since they decided to do the Harlem shake just before the end of February when they were still in a playoff fight and laid a stinky egg against the Washington Wizards 90-84 and started a 4 and 14 just mail it in on D on a nightly bases. Right now the Raptors are falling hard on their wallets on D because with their Swiss cheeses D they are now 18's in the league and are a couple of hairs under the century mark (99.5 points a game). This is the opposite of last season when they were in the top 10 in points against at no. 9 with 94 points a game which is 5.5 better than they have been doing this season especially lately. The Raptors points a game is up @ 97.1 points a game which is a bigger jump of 6.4 points a game but if the Raptors are unable to find their passion for playing on the defensive end of the court next season hopefully under head coach Dwayne Casey but with no room for movement under the cap. Just remember that Sam Mitchell turned a contract year into a coach of the year award Tom Mehegan