The Toronto Raptors Are the NBA’s Most Improved Team 🦖🔥 | Routine Jumper Clips
The Toronto Raptors are off to one of their best starts in years, sitting second in the East and looking like a completely different team. Jalon breaks down what’s fueling Toronto’s rise — and why this might not be a fluke.
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Scottie is also an all nba talent and a great midrange scorer who can make tough shots. Plus being a great passer an an ELITE defender. With Brandon he can use his energy to affect the whole game and not have to worry about forcing offence when the team moves the ball plays so well together. He is the real leader of this team.
Go raps
Good analysis brotha. I don’t see many Americans that actually get what’s happening in Toronto, because they don’t actually watch the games. You can only tell so much looking at box scores. Rather listen to you than Brian Windhorst who literally only knows about the Cavs yet is supposed to watch all 30 teams. What a joke
We the North
Thank you for the fair analysis on the Raptors.
I listen to people who knows basketball and you're up there. Keep up the good work
Great breakdown. This guy knows basketball.
Raptors is 10th in 3 pt shooting. The league is taking more contested shots while the raptors are shooting less but more efficiently
first time viewing nicely done 👍🏿🍁
As far aa the east goes, there were a couple misconceptions going into the year: 1) The consensus top teams of NY and Cleveland should have included Detroit 2) The second tier teams like Miami, Atlanta Orlando are actually not far behind 3) Toronto does in fact belong in one of the top two playoff tiers
Early but more and more exciting and convincing with every passing game. Admittedly, I still have the Toronto doubter disease because the local guys promise only to let you crash in the end. But I'm enjoying the heck out of the present run while it lasts.
The interesting thing is that it's not like Ingram is just dominating and carrying them. He's only averaging like 20 points, but he gets them all the buckets they NEED and it just makes the whole team work.
Great video
It hits deep now, when you recall Darko going off and defending Scottie in that press conference.
Good job. Go Raps
Raps taking advantage of a weak conference and their firing on all cylinders with great chemistry. Need a backup bigman and keep developing their young guys like Jakobe and Murray boyles
Last season Raps were so hobbled by injuries they had no choice but to pivot tank, and even so they had too much talent to out-tank the likes of the Wiz, Nets, Jazz etc… Seeing the offense finally flowing with a healthy squad intent on winning this time I knew they'd easily clear their projected W/L, but I didn't expect THIS much improvement.
Great unbiased fair Analysis. Usually doesn't happen with US based content creators.
Good job
MORE RAPTORS CONTENT PLEASE!!
Quickley is one of the low turnover point guards out there lol
Great video – but Ingram Ain’t a watered down KD remember he’s only 27 and only getting better
My talented young brother, results are reflected in results. Not reflecting.
A lot of "less cerebral" 😒 hoops fans can't process that a Franchise Player isn't necessarily a 1st Option offensive player. Barnes is an absolute Franchise Player, but not suited to be the #1 offensive option. Magic Johnson was also the clear Franchise Player but not the primary scorer by default. His role was to enable winning. Barnes doesn’t shoot like Larry Bird (few can), but he has the same mind for the game and ability to impact it across the stat sheet and far beyond. Masai Ujiri coveted Ingram for years as the ideal complement to the Barnes / Siakam Point Forward prototype.
Ehh Ingrams 3 point percentage will definitely go up , it has over the last few games .
Raptors last year, as the season progressed, actually put themselves in very good position to win a lot of games but opted to get guys like Shead and Grady important experience instead. Darko spent his time getting this team onboard with defence and feeling confident in him by standing up for his guys time and again.
This was a team waiting for the right time to bust out, and that time was waiting for BI3 to be able to be healthy enough to play. Now you’re seeing this team take advantage of those situations where they are in the game to actually finish and win.
The Raptors have also been working on their defensive rebounding, which was a big part of some of their early season losses, and has made the rest of their defence look much better overall.
The minutes the young players got last season, plus the addition of Mamu, who has also bought in very quickly to what Darko is running, and this team is a contender early on.
There is one caveat to the success: the schedule for most of the season thus far has been easy, and the teams that should have been a greater challenge, like the Cavs, have dealt with a lot of injuries. That may have translated into some wins that might not have been. Even so, it looks like this team is ready for a deep playoff run. Not sure how deep they’ll get this year, but it’s not a shock to me that they’re a contender after seeing how they’ve been building.
A lot of people didn’t like Darko as Head Coach even into last season, but he’s looking like a genius now, getting the player buy-in and developing the young players on this team. The people who were dissing him were only looking at winning day-to-day, especially last season, even though that season was flagged as a development year. The outlook for this year changed immediately upon picking up Ingram for next to nothing, and from that point on, the team was in full gear to start pushing for this season.