It was in one of the many lengthy and entertaining post-practice conversations with Sam Mitchell, up in the old practice facility in what was then known as the Air Canada Centre, that the verbose former coach of the Raptors made a gaggle of reporters’ eyes grow wide.
A hundred shots, he said. He wanted to see his team get up 100 shots a game. And no one listening laughed, but everyone wondered if he could possibly be serious.
He was, and even though his teams never reached that seemingly unreachable goal, here we are a handful of years later and the Raptors have fulfilled Mitchell’s bold proclamation twice in their first nine games.