3 things the Toronto Raptors must do to get farther next year
By Mike Luciano
2. Fix the half-court offense
The Raptors were borderline laughable in half-court situations last season, as way too many promising offensive starts ended up stalling out, thanks to Nick Nurse’s general inflexibility in this area and the limits of how the roster was constructed over the past few years.
Hiring a coach like Jordi Fernandez and Sergio Scariolo, both of whom have a background in generating productive half-court schemes via quality Xs and Os, would be a fantastic start to proceedings. However, more needs to be done to avoid a re-run of last season.
The Toronto Raptors must be better on offense.
The Raptors are once again banking on their own internal development, hoping that Scottie Barnes takes the leap forward on offense many are expecting of him and OG Anunoby figures out the shot-creation issues that have limited his ceiling. Hoping and dreaming is nice, but isn’t this what we said last season?
Still, hires like Mike Brown in Sacramento and Steve Kerr in Golden State have proven to revitalize a middling program in the last decade. If the Raptors play their cards right and supplement their new coach with some shooters, they could drag themselves out of the muck and the mire they were stuck in last year.