This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The Raptors have spoken about the benefit of Gay’s presence to DeRozan’s game, since Gay will often draw the opposition’s best defender - and DeRozan is shooting slightly more accurately since the all-star break - but it has not had a positive effect on the Raptors as a whole. Since Gay arrived, the Raptors’ offence has been bad by any reasonable metric.
In other words, the offence has looked improvisational at times, and that does not often work against top defences.
“You don’t really realize how much a training camp will help you until you go without being with your team during it.” It’s up and down,” Gay said of adapting to a new team. At many times over the past 10 weeks, the early criticisms looked prescient. It looked as if they have been playing together for years. They each knocked down three three-pointers, which are golden for the pair. They combined to shoot 22 for 41 from the field and 12 for 13 from the free-throw line. On Sunday, that looked like the unvarnished truth.
