The Toronto Raptors Offense is fundamentally flawed. Anchored by large doses of Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, O.G. Anunoby and Scottie Barnes, the pieces simply don’t work well enough often enough. The lack of spacing, good decision making and movement are core issues looking even worse as shots won’t fall and the defense can’t stop the bleeding.
Leo Beas from Basketball Zone joins us to break down the tape of what went right and wrong for the Raptors against he Memphis Grizzlies.
0:00 – Siakam Ball (going 1 on 5)
25:00- Good Offense (Barnes, Dowtin)
26:30- Rico Hines Impact Potential
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Its All-Star season, got to get those numbers.
I agree that I don't like the system around Pascal at all.. in fact I don't really know if there is a actual offensive scheme.. everybody just improvises on the fly. And the only one who is succeeding at it is Pascal.. but even outside of the "system" on offense. We have 3pt shooting issues all across the roster and Rim protecting woe's. I think the coaching staff is under far more criticism than say Pascal.. he doesn't get to run in a good offensive scheme.. nurse is obsessed with all his trick defensive plays.
Guys are simply missing shots. Whether its a 5 foot floater or a 3 ball. Siakam is owed like 8 assists a game for the amount of open looks he gets his teammates.
Great video but I think you sometimes interrupt the guests too much. Need to let them finish their explanations
It seems unfair to put the blame on Siakam. The Raptors got no shooters and at a certain point as the best player on the team, if your teammates aren’t hitting their shots your natural tendency would be to take it yourself. Put good shooters around him and play a 5 out system, you’ll see Siakam making those good basketball plays.
Please Siakam is playing great!. is there any update on Scotty's injury that made him run off the court and leave his teammates? he just left? This is the second time he did these, do you have any inside information???
Always on Siakam. Got damn what about your coach? Your entire franchise sucks……
Yeah we're back to blaming Siakam for every Raptor failure. Here I thought Pensare had grown some impartiality in him. It's back to cherry picking and posting.
The problem here is this team is not built for Siakam. It is constructed with the view that SB will take over. This is not Siakam's team, stop blaming him for every nonsense. A team that can't shoot no matter the number of open looks they get, don't put their failure on Siakam. Your bias is borderline hatred now.
Channel never disappoints. Pascal=slander Scottie=Praise. Maybe the problem is that Pascal passes to a team full of guys that generally can not hit open shots.. There are so many larger problems than Pascal smh.
He didn’t blame pascal for loss.. this was specifically an analysis of pascal approach in this game….
Brooks is a FA in the off season. Bet you could not pay him enough to come back home with this Mental Midget as the Leader. Brooks took Siakam's heart and soul last night and poor baby Pascal had another Mental Breakdown and gave Brooks a manly little push then backed up 2 steps and ran his mouth costing 2 T's eventually,
Damn when do the Fanboys FINALLY admit Siakam is not a Leader , Not even close to one.
This team isn't losing – it's getting whooped! ..over the past few seasons, teams/players have career nights shooting 3's against the Raps. NN loves FVV who gets free rein and lets PS do what he wants – just like he did with Lowry BUT Lowry knew how to run a winning team. Pascal has the skills, there is no doubting him, however he doesn't have the IQ. Learning how to score/defend in a game vs Learning how to play the game is the difference to winning or losing.
The offense turns to shit when guys miss a few shots in a row . Then Pascal has to resort to hero ball to stop the bleeding. And if hes not getting his offense going, raptors go on those long droughts. Blame goes to everyone, the role players need to be ready to shoot when they get the ball. Pascal needs to continue to make the right passes and reads even if shots are being missed by teammates. Hero ball is not the answer and it should be the last resort . Give the younger guy playing time and time to develop. That lineup with dowtin , barnes and flynn in the early 4th quarter was beautiful basketball when raps were coming back.
to leo…. pascal is better than jaylen brown, and what are you talking about no grace? Robert is correct on that play siakam shouldn't be passing to arnes, and Barnes should have dragged him out to the perimeter a bit. So I don't think Siakam saw it as a mismatch. Barnes definitely saw it as an offensive hub action.
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 this clown see that scotte playing bad every game and this clown 🤡 have not talk about that but this clown talking about siakam,
@Scottie Barnes
Not enough ball movement and not enough passing. But the issue is when no one cant shoot the 3 Pascal does not want to pass the ball anymore. I do wish he passed the ball more. Acutally I want Barnes operate the offense more at the start because he will pass the ball
Since it is a Canadian team it’s worth mentioning maybe that it’s not like Hockey? In hockey a great scorer is almost always obviously a plus I think .. unless they are a total defensive liability or something?
In Basketball a guy like Siakam, a 6’10 power forward with great footwork and often a nice touch, can score a ton of points if you put the ball in his hands all the time.. but that doesn’t mean the team necessarily has a better chance of winning playing that way.. when it is impacting the way the team plays in a suboptimal way, and I think that is what we are seeing here (OR to be charitable to Spice the team is just playing bad and he’s just trying to salvage it the only way he knows how …)
@pensare basketball its not dumb if you are doing a stealth tank and raising siakams value so he can be traded before you have to pay him the supermax. i dont think masai let nurse just keep letting siakam and fred play iso ball 1 v 5 if there was not a method to the madness.
Scottie and OG are bricks and garbage self creators. That’s why we’re losing. Scottie is a cone as well, disgustingly bad defender. Siakam fell off on the end too but playing center by committee does that
Another banger 🔥
Great video!
PS: if people feel bad for Pascal then trade him and blow this ship up for next year 🤷♂️
This guy said Jalen brown is better than siakam…? That was the worst take of this video.
Your analysis is flawed. Pascal is a top 10 player in the league, those dont come around often. The problem is spacing on this team, their is none. Give Pascal shooting, like the Cleveland game, then you unlocks this teams potential.
The Raptors have 5 core players under the age of 25. Scottie, Christian, Gary, Precious and OG. Their development should be the Raptors' top priority.
I agree with what you guys are saying but i've seen stretches without Siakam and it's not any better. The offensive scheme is messed up and nonexistent and that's on nick nurse. Scottie and Og doesn't have the footwork to make their own moves outside of pounding the post. Siakam needs to be more aggressive in drive to the lane and masai needs to provide him with shooters.