The Raptors have to wonder what’s going on right now. The only team to lose a playoff game at home so far, and they’ve lost two of them. What’s the deal? I thought Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan were the best backcourt in the east, that combined with top-3 center Jonas Valanciunas and 6th Man of the Year Lou Williams means they shouldn’t have any problems with the Wiz.
Answer: not enough touches for Patrick Patterson. Also maybe all their players actually aren’t that good and they are held down by a horrible coach anyway and their number-one fan is a bandwagoning joke of a rapper. But mainly the P-Pat thing. They need to find a way to get their best three-bomber the ball behind the arc. That means passing. Williams and DeRozan might struggle at first with that foreign concept, but it will pay off in the long run.