Tha Cynic wrote:pingpongrac wrote:Tha Cynic wrote:
I don't know why we're even talking bench vs starters. They all sucked. Everything they do was simply exposed.
The Pistons are basically one of if not the worst team in the league and they made the Raptors look terrible.
I think the big thing is our role players/bench players have completely crapped the bed on the offensive end the last two games.
Against the Suns, Siakam+FVV+OG scored 68 of our 95 points on 50 TS% with 13 AST and 9 TOV; the rest of the team scored 27 points on 42 TS% with 2 AST and 5 TOV.
Tonight, Siakam+FVV+OG scored 63 of our 87 points on 51 TS% with 16 AST and 6 TOV (5 by OG); the rest of the team scored 24 points on 32 TS% with 2 AST and 5 TOV.
Siakam, FVV and OG are taking difficult shots and being game-planned for (double teams, entire defensive schemes around not letting FVV get open, etc.) while the rest of the players are generally getting wide open threes and layups/putbacks. I'll give our bench some credit for being good defensively and dominating the glass against Phoenix, but we would have won that game if they gave us any kind of offensive boost outside of shooting ~50% at the rim. Tonight, they weren't good defensively and they were even worse offensively. Against a team like the Pistons -- whose bench is arguably no better than ours on a typical night -- we can't be getting outscored by 30 points off the bench.
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This is not going to change. The Raptors are a developing team and they have a young roster. Teams with better rosters will start game planning for the Raptors. The only way this team will really get better is if they keep playing together and grow as a team. The offensive team chemistry isn't there. We got a bit spoiled watching it for a few seasons under Nurse, but it's taking a lot longer than I expected this season with this collection of players.
I'm still waiting for that time when I won't be shocked to see two or three possessions in a row when a Raptor player gets a wide open shot.
We generate just as many open shots as other teams. We average 30.7 open threes per game (shooting 36% on those shots mostly because of FVV, OG and GTJ) which is pretty much middle of the pack in the league; Brooklyn (25), Washington (27), San Antonio (27.5), Phoenix (28), Miami (28.5) and Atlanta (29.5) are just a few good offensive teams that are also generally known for ball movement that we are getting more open threes than statistically. We are also near the top of the league in open 2FGA (18 attempts).
The issue is we are leaving a lot of points on the board because players that should be able to hit open looks are struggling. Yuta, Svi and Boucher have combined to shoot 33% on ~8.5 open threes per game while Scottie and Achiuwa have combined to shoot 30% on ~3.5 open threes per game. The overall numbers look better than they actually are too as some individual numbers (like Boucher going 5/7 against the Sixers, Scottie's 10/21 hot streak in late November and Svi starting the year 13/30 but being 22/80 since) are skewed a bit.
We knew shooting was going to be a bit of an issue, but there isn't any excuse for Svi and Boucher to be giving us 2 3FGM at 30% off the bench. They just need to start hitting those shots. The same goes for Yuta to a lesser extent; 19/55 (.345) isn't terrible, but those numbers should be higher for someone who takes most of his shots from the corners and is always left wide open.
