Here are five positives takeaways through the first quarter of the Raptors season
. Plus, Anunoby is in the process of developing counters to punish opponents for sagging off him and daring him to drive, including his mid-range fadeaway and pull-up three. Once his three-ball stabilizes from his current 35.1 percent back towards his career-average of 37 percent, Anunoby could legitimately make his first All-Star team as one of the league's elite two-way wings.
“We're getting there, I think, defensively,” Nick Nurse said about the team’s identity coming into shape. “I just know that that'll get you out of some nights when we don't shoot it well or don't offensive rebound it or whatever, that'll get you in games. And I just think that we can grab and seize momentum based on our defense in a lot of games right and just knowing that it's going to be hard to score [against us], I think has a bigger overall effect on the game.
“I feel like that's what they want me to do, so they're helping off,” Barnes says about how defences are playing him. “But when I catch it, I feel confident in my shot, I'm going to shoot it with confidence every single time. It's something I've been working on. I feel good out there.”It’s still a little early, but it appears that the Raptors front office got everything right this offseason — at least on the margins.
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