[新聞]Auditing The Toronto Raptors 2009-10 Season
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作者：Christopher Reina - May 25, 2010
Record: 40-42
Season FIC Rank:18th, -4.7 per game
Efficiency Differential: 19th, -1.9 points per game
What They Did Well In 09-10: The Raptors were nothing if they weren't a good
offensive team, averaging 111.3 points per 100 possessions, which was good
for fifth in the NBA. The Grizzlies and Warriors were the only other teams
above the league average in the category to miss the playoffs.
The Raptors ran the majority of their offense off the pick and roll and with
perimeter shooting, two things they did extremely well.
Chris Bosh probably had his finest individual season of his career, but he
played in just 18 games after the break and the Raptors were 35-35 with him
on the floor. Bosh's TS% hit 59.2%, a career high and he also had his best
season on the glass. The Raptors were 5.1 points per 100 possessions better
with Bosh on the floor and it felt like that number should have been higher
when you watched them play.
Newcomers Jarrett Jack and Amir Johnson had career seasons as well,
particularly Jack, who saw his PER jump from 13.1 with Indiana to 16.3.
Jack had always been a competent perimeter shooter, but he shot 41.2% from
distance this season, while his assist rate hit a very impressive 27.7% since
he has always been more of a scoring point.
Jack and Jose Calderon shared the point guard duties and weren't outplayed as
badly as their teammates were on the wings, but the Raptors were stronger in
this area in 08-09.
DeMar DeRozan, Sonnny Weems and Marco Belinelli all gave the Raptors probably
a little bit more than Jay Triano could have hoped for, but it remained an
area of weakness since they're going up against wings that are substantially
better players.
DeRozan played more minutes than I was expecting, but didn't make the kind of
significant impact we saw from fellow rookies such as Tyreke Evans, Brandon
Jennings and Stephen Curry. To his credit, DeRozan showed some glimpses of
his offensive potential down the stretch, substantially improving as a scorer.
He has a long ways to go of course and there is no getting around the fact
that the Raptors passed on Jennings, but he could still be the pick that turns
around the franchise much quicker than otherwise.
When it comes to the defensive end of the floor, there isn't much to be said
in the 'What They Did Well' section. Bosh had an improved season on that end
of the floor and weren't always brutal defending Isos, but that is about it.
What They Need To Improve In 10-11: On the scale of believing in defense,
I'm a West Coast guy raised on Don Nelson, so it is rarely one of my biggest
priorities and I find it to sometimes be overstated in importance, but the
Raptors were utterly horrible in 09-10. They allowed 113.2 points per 100
possessions, almost six points worse than the NBA average.
Regardless of the strength of the offense, allowing opponents to score with
the easy they did makes winning impossibly difficult. They did get a little
bit better as the season progressed, remembering the 146 they allowed in
December against the Hawks as a low point. It was hard to believe a few weeks
later that they were the same team when they allowed just 64 to the Pistons.
I don't think I have to do the research to rightly assume that the difference
between their highest point total and their lowest point total was the
greatest of any team in the NBA.
Even though some of the personnel needs to be upgraded for the defensive end
to improve, there also needs to be a shift in the culture.
Improving from being two games under .500 will be difficult for the Raptors
since they will likely lose their best player. Bosh has probably been one of
the best dozen players in the NBA, but missing the playoffs in each of the
past two seasons (in the Eastern Conference no less), is an indictment of
either Toronto's ability to surround him with talent, his ability as a
superstar or a combination of both. While the Cavaliers wrestled with the
agony of not winning a title with LeBron James, the Raptors waged a similar
battle merely with making the playoffs, which has to say at least a little
something about the differences between the parties.
Signing Hedo Turkoglu was an aggressive maneuver by Bryan Colangelo, but he
was an unmitigated disaster, made worse by the remaining years and money left
on his untradable contract that he wants traded. Divorces in the real world
that both parties want to happen as badly as this one usually are gracefully
permitted, but finding a taker for Turkoglu will be nearly impossible for
MLSE.
Calderon battled nagging injuries, which likely contributed to his TS%
dropping from it's normal point above 60% to 56.9% and he also saw his assist
rate drop from 41.0% to 33.8%.
I wasn't exactly sure where to put Andrea Bargnani categorically speaking and
deserves to be in some sort of purgatory between the two. He had the best PER
of his career, but that was just because of a slight uptick in his offensive
boards and a decrease in turnovers. He begins the first season of new contract
in 10-11, though his raise isn't too huge in light of his first overall pick
money. He is going to be 25 when the season starts, so he is largely the
player he will be and has shown little signs of ever becoming an All-Star,
though there could be a particular wing or point guard that brings out the best
in him in ways Bosh hasn't been capable of doing because there is overlap.
Raptors Draft Needs: Generally, I think the Raptors should be in best player
available (that suits they system) mode because they are a team without a
superstar for all intents and purposes. There have been a few franchise players
and All-Stars selected 13th overall, most notably Kobe Bryant and Karl Malone.
I don't think there is a Kobe or Malone in this draft beyond John Wall, so
going with an Ekpe Udoh, or possibly a point guard like Eric Bledsoe would
probably be the most prudent direction to go in. Bledsoe is more of a question
park, but he undoubtedly has much more upside and legitimately become the
ideal point guard for this franchise.
Assuming Bosh is dealt in a sign-and-trade, it will most likely be for a big,
whether it is David Lee or Andrew Bynum, so I do wonder how much that
anticipation is played into Colangelo's draft night plans.
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