Kyle Lowry has been booty (both literally and figuratively) lately, so booty that the bootiness overwhelmed his body and forced him to sit out this game. Fred VanVleet has had his share of struggles, but he’s not the one getting paid big bucks to be the leader of the team and deciding to not shoot shots and when he does shoot shots, to miss them. So I can’t imagine that Raptor fans are TOO sad about seeing VanVleet in the starting lineup.
The Raptors had previously won all five games where he started; now they have a loss to go along with that. It’s too bad that his teammates had to ruin his best performance of the season. This is a season high in points, as well as a season high in assists if you ignore his 14-assist game against the Clippers a few days ago.
A 14-assist game, by the way, that no one informed me had happened. I have a bad habit of only looking at the points column sometimes when deciding which vids to compile, and had I known he had dished 14 dimes I would’ve been mighty tempted. Relatedly, I apologize for not making that Darren Collison 10-point/17-assist vid. I know you guys are really missing that one.