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Norm Powell’s down time has the Raptors’ second unit looking up

The Star | January 29, 2019

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Norm Powell had time, plenty of time, a quarter of an NBA regular season, to sit back and watch and mull and wonder.

He was injured — out 21 straight games with a partial dislocation of his left shoulder — but there is no question now that he put that idle time to good use.

The Raptorsu2019 Norm Powell is shooting 41.9 per cent from the field and 40 per cent from three-point range over his last 15 games.
The Raptors’ Norm Powell is shooting 41.9 per cent from the field and 40 per cent from three-point range over his last 15 games.

He watched a ton of video of himself and his Toronto Raptors teammates, he broke down his game with assistant coaches whenever he could, and he did more than pay lip service to the time-worn cliché about using down time for personal growth.

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