If the Raptors don't look like a finished product at times, it's because they're still a rebuilding team that has started the season punching above their weight. But, on the whole, the team is very much ahead of schedule. (william_lou)
and Yuta Watanabe were injured, Nurse still only used Boucher for nine minutes as the ninth man. Even those nine minutes were inflated partially by Nurse's strategy of pressing full court at the end of the game, and so he needed a rangy big like Boucher who could cover as much space as possible, but that's hardly an everyday look.
Almost every team that plays the Raptors keeps their center in the lane waiting to neutralize drives, and the Raptors don't have the threat of a pick-and-pop option to pull them out. Instead, the onus falls on players like Fred VanVleet and Gary Trent Jr. to consistently make pull-up jumpers, and they're just not at the level where it influences the defence to change their tactics.
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