Shooting a basketball isn’t everything. Ask all the gunners in NBA history who played with tunnel vision, who played to get buckets, buckets, buckets, whose biggest wins were one-on-one. Basketball is a game with so many moving pieces, so many ways to make a difference. Shooting’s just a part.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s dig into the numbers. Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan are not just struggling — they are putting together all-time ghastly playoffs resumes.
This year is bad, yes. In this series against the Pacers — which, as the Star’s Doug Smith put it, the Raptors trail 2-2 — Toronto’s two all-stars are shooting .