Sam Mitchell coaching t-wolves in Toronto

Sam Mitchell and his 156 wins as RAPS head coach is taking over for a game as Flip Saunders is going to miss a game for personal reason. Sam Mitchell will be facing Dwayne Casey's Raps and his 145 raps wins as the top two winningest raps head coaches going head to head as Casey tries to get another win closer to become the winningest head coach in franchise history. So the Raps who are still having trouble understanding Casey and only want to play on the offensive end of the court and have no interest in the defensive end of the court and fell they can outscore everybody and it will be the reason that Casey will need to wait til the start of 2015-16. So the play of the raps if it continues it will be a very playoff run as most team making the playoff in the eastern conference will take this team out quickly and people question if he should be back and do not think Masai Ujiri will be one of them and find a different way to better this team in the offseason. Another interesting thing about tomorrow game will also be that the last two first overall picks Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins are heading to Toronto and the acc which is near where they were both born (Brampton). Andrew Wiggins is put 15.7 points and 4.3 rebounds in his rookies campaign and will get some votes for rookie of the year while Anthony Bennett is still finding himself in his second season with 5.2 points and 3.8 rebounds in his first season with the t-wolves after a disaster of a rookie season with the cavs and spending time in the d league. So it will be interesting how the three will be received in Toronto and it will likely cheers all around Tom Mehegan

raptor blog: Raptors in love with the 3-balls

raptor blog: Raptors in love with the 3-balls: The Toronto Raptors who are very good 33-17 are way to conceded for their own good as they just like to jack up threes at anytime/anywhere. ...

Raptors in love with the 3-balls

The Toronto Raptors who are very good 33-17 are way to conceded for their own good as they just like to jack up threes at anytime/anywhere. Lou Williams and Terrence Ross are the two biggest three-ball shooters on the Raptors with Lou averages 5.5 attempts in his 11.4 attempts a game in 24.5 while T-Ross has attempted 5 3's of his 10 attempts from the floor in 26.3 minutes. Lou Williams had 9 of the Raptors 33 attempts against the Brooklyn Nets in a 109-93 loss and only made one of them while T-Ross put up 11 3's and hit 5 of them but Lou had the only two assists in the game. Lou in a loss to the Bucks 82-75 put up 7 3's and made one and T-Ross put up 5 and made two as the Raps up 27 of 78 field attempts from beyond the arc. Even in an overtime win against the wizards Lou still put 7 of the 27 attempts and made only two of them while T-Ross put up only 3 of them hitting on of them and then overtime win against the Nets Lou put up 7 3's attempts and made 3 of them while T-Ross put 3 them and made one. So the Raps this season has put 25.3 attempts a game from beyond the arc of their 84.5 attempts from the floor while Jonas puts up 8 field goals attempted. The Raps have attempted 797 shoots between 5-14 feet and 344 (43%) of them while have put up 1270 3-balls and made 443 of them which is too many and it is also 163 short of the attempts going to the rim (1433) which is just over three a game. Simply put going to the basket of the 5 out comes possible (basket, basket plus shooting foul, shooting foul, missed shot, rebound) only a missed shot is not positive and much less likely than from 24 feet away. Going to the basket makes the d work harder and they are more likely to get in foul problems and the offence is more likely get to the charity strip where it is a player shooting the ball at the basket with no one in front of them along with it helps set your d going the other way. While 24 feet away you are going to miss at least 4 of 10 shoots, not going to the charity strip, and you are running back on d hoping to stay with your man so he does not get an easy basket. So if the raps do not share the rock more, take the ball to the rim, and stay with your man on d it will be a very short, disappointing playoffs in the T-dot Tom Mehegan