C.J. Miles kind of chuckled when it was suggested that one three-point field-goal attempt per minute — the Toronto Raptors’ fire-’em-up rate in Chicago on Friday night — might not have felt like too many given the team’s easy victory.
“Yeah,” he said, “because they’re good shots.”
Once again taking a desire to be active in firing long-distance shots to the extreme, the Raptors went 19-for-48 from beyond the arc in a 125-104 win over the Bulls to close out the exhibition schedule.
That’s more than they’ve ever taken — 43 had been the benchmark, in the first pre-season game this month in Honolulu — and simply is not sustainable into the regular season.