Happy times are always extremely short,18-19 season, the Raptors won the first championship trophy in team history, but this still can't save Kawhi Leonard's heart to return to Los Angeles. After the next two seasons of the Raptors, once in the semifinals, once did not enter the playoffs, Pascal Siakam's growth is obviously not up to the team's expectations, the Raptors seem to be in a confused state again. With the departure of Kyle Lowry, the Raptors have completely opened a new era.
In the new season, the Nets, Bucks, Bulls and other teams attracted the attention of most people, but as the season deepened, the Raptors gradually found a sense of winning, and after a wave of four consecutive wins, the Raptors improved their record to 18 wins and 17 losses, ranking seventh in the East. It's not a very good report card, but compared to last season's missed playoffs, the Raptors seem to have completed the rebuild, Siakam, OG Anunoby, Gary Trent Jr., Scotty Barnes and others have performed well, and the Raptors see the future. However, the light of these people is still not as good as fred VanVleet.
Once upon a time, Van Jordan was just a pejorative joke, a mockery of VanVleet's blind confidence, but with the birth of his son, Van Vleet made Van Jordan a positive word. Based on his outstanding performance, the Raptors gave VanVleet a four-year, $85 million contract in the 2020 offseason. From a failed draft to a steady playing time to a salary of 20 million per year, VanVleet completed a magnificent counterattack. At this point in the story, it seems to be perfect enough, even if the future career is relatively mediocre, VanVleet's life will not have too many regrets, and he who does not belong to this stage has spelled out a broad road.
However, VanVleet doesn't think so, and he has higher goals. After Lowry left, VanVleet became the raptors' core backcourt. Generally speaking, the Raptors will send a lineup of guards + four forwards, VanVleet is the only guard, in the 32 games that have been played, VanVleet has averaged 21.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game, shooting 44% from the field and 40.8% from three-point range. Averaging 3.7 three-pointers per game, VanVleet currently ranks third in the league in three-point shooting and second in the league in terms of three-point shooting per game, behind Steven Curry, and VanVleet's three-point shooting percentage is somewhat advantageous over Curry (38.8%).
Taking on the heavy responsibility of organizing the offense and maintaining a great performance from outside the three-point line, VanVleet did his job well. At the same time, we also have to see his excellent assist-to-turnover ratio, this season, only 19 players in the league can average no less than 5 assists per game, no more than 3 turnovers, VanVleet is impressively listed, in addition to we can find Chris Paul, Ricky Rubio, Mike Conley, Ju holliday these players with solid style of the game, VanVleet has a chance to compete with them.
Prolific and efficient three-pointers, relatively solid style, dare to fight attitude, VanVleet has become the leader of the new generation of Raptors, which is a trait that Siakam does not have at present, if the Raptors can be more stable in terms of record, VanVleet may have the opportunity to stand on a larger stage to express himself, that is, the all-star stage. Of course, the All-Star competition in the East is extremely fierce, and VanVleet must have a better performance to win the favor of fans, hoping that he can continue to play better and strive to complete a bigger counterattack.
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