When DeMarre Carroll was an Atlanta Hawk, the ball more than moved; it hummed. They didn’t have a pound-it isolation player, so they passed, and passed, searching for the best shot they could find. It sounds simple, but there was some basketball mysticism to it.
“Our offence was made to move the ball from one side to the other,” said Carroll, one day after the Toronto Raptors won Game 2 against the Miami Heat to even the second-round series. “Just to be able to touch the ball, it just gives you psychologically in your mind, that you are going to impact the game somehow.