RJ Barrett CAREER YEAR IS HERE for Raptors | Film Breakdown on Barrett’s leap and how it happened
Sam takes a look at the film from RJ Barrett’s recent play, highlighting the leap he has made as a playmaker & what it could mean for the Toronto Raptors if this RJ is here to stay.
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The raptors have created this roster perfectly, they have so many expiring moveable contracts to make win now moves but on the other hand they only have 1 true center in Poetl . So all they have to do is trade or sit Poetl if they wanna tank for 3 months after December and get a top 4 pick to create a decade of cinema in raptors land
The league is sleeping on Scottie Barnes. RJ is definitely having an All-star season but Barnes has been Toronto's best player by far.
Raps are building somthing special
Also that toronto court could bring a tear to me eye. Beautiful
RJ, was kind of frozen out in NY. RJ is right handed, but goes left, but also did higher usage left handed players J Randle & J Brunson.
The Knicks got violated in the OG trade.
Great work Sam! Subbed.
I knew RJ would have a great year…I took him in all 4 of my Fantasy teams.
Gradey Dick is the guy I miss. Most especially his baseline 10 footers.
The leap for RJ's scoring was last year. His TS% was 61% and now is back to being below average (55%). The bump in assists is nice though.
As a raps fan we're going back to our core of: drafting, developing and making the most of our draft capital.. adding 4 rotation players as rookies in mogbo, shead, walter and battle and potentially a 5th in chomche one day
As a rockets fan RJ looks like a different player from when he with the Knicks. With the Knicks he was mostly shooting 3s and was a midrange shooter.
But with the Raptors with how they are using him they are letting him be a driver when he has great spacing and he shooting the ball well for three.
He a perfect compliment to Scottie and if they get Quickley back the Raptors have three nice core pieces and depending how the rest of the season goes they going to get a high draft pick
Injuries and bad coaching early on are the only reasons this team isn't above .500 thus far. Not a contender by any means, but a decent young team.
When he got traded he was labeled a negative asset
Nice to hear people outside Raptorland recognize this team is better than their record.
Toronto cut out all the bad RJ. He finishes in transition, takes catch and shoot open 3's and attacks the basket.. that's almost his entire shot diet (he strayed away from this a little this year and it tanked his efficiency with all the injuries and Scottie being out) + he has passed it really well in TO
good call on him finishing better with his right hand. noticed that 100%
RJ Buckets ✨⭐️🌟
Versatile jeans? I realize you are completely full of it vecenie
Great breakdown Sam
Toronto played undermanned the first 15 games of the season. Healthy lineup and they will give many teams a lot of trouble and win too.
Honestly I don't think 3.4 turnover per game is all that bad considering he basically played pg for a month with Scottie and Quickley out.
Enjoyed that.
Barret, Barnes, Poetl, Dick and Quick! This is going to be scarey if they ever get to play together… they are running out 4 rooks every night aswell.
23 – 28 wins MAX for this team. There is no such thing as ethical tanking – they stink. they have a couple of recently unrepressed younger players, some absolute defenceless pylons and offenceless brick walls and overall inconsistent play plagued by celebratory buffoonery and playing to the crowd to toddler all rush the ball defensive actions, with a little inopportune "lost in place" moments. But – RAH, RAH, they may have an allstar!
Why RJ didn’t play like this with the Knicks 🤔
Thank you for the great content.
I know we're talking about RJ here but I feel it has to be said after watching some of these clips that I think Jakob Poeltl is really underrated in terms of his impact on the floor. His box score numbers don't pop off (averaging 16pts & 12reb this year) but the way he reads the game, always knows where to be, and screens in ways that allow for the offence to flow are super underrated qualities that you can't appreciate unless you actually watch this team play.
Love to hear outsiders opinions on my raptors especially because many times they just be hating and undermine anything we got going on. For what its worth we tried to tell yall we have a good young core brewing. I could rave about barnes but at this point i think yall can agree he is a legit allstar with real potential to be a superstar- the 6’9 point guard. Rj, do i have to explain. We’re missing IQ but lets not forget gradey who has been playing like the most improved player averaging over 18ppg now and is also showing great potential as a starter maybe even allstar. Every rookie has impressed. Mogbo is like a draymond green and potentially can do many things barnes can do. Hes such a smart player. Shead as a rookie at times looks like he should be getting minutes over davion and mitch himself has been good relative to his role. Jakobe who has been hurt our first pick of the rookies has also impressed. I can rave about anyone on the team which is scary and going forward will be interesting how this team will look and who we keep if we can keep everyone together. Guys like Bruce, kelly olynk havent even played yet. Only thing missing is a serviceable back up big as we are highly dependent on our center jakob who he himself is having a career year on the offensive end. W.e we do this season, if we somehow get another lottery pick on this team, were legitimately The OkC of the east, heck even without a lottery pick we might already be. The team is good and is way better then what their record shows. Ps even jamison battle the undrafted rookie from out of no where. He no matter what if he gets in the game he’s gonna splash a 3. Went from doing that im the summer league off the bench to recently splashing 6 3’s on the pelicans head top. I even almost forgot agbaji- yall like what you see with OG in New York, well it looks like he can be OG 2.0 being an elite defender even at 6’5 beable to even gaurd the paint alittle as a rim protector. Im sure every fan base can rave about their players but if yall pay attention to whats happening here you’ll be shocked. We just have a tonne of underrated prospects with great long term potential
Oh yeah since RJ came here i dnt know what happened to his free throw, he been great but at the freethrow line has been brick
Nice breakdown GT