There was a period after the Raptors’ game in New Orleans two Fridays ago when Nick Nurse knew what was going on with his injured players, but the reporters firing questions at him did not. In case you were wondering, Nurse has a decent poker face. If he had looked a tad more disconcerted, the questions about the health of Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka would have come quickly. The diagnoses of a small fracture of Lowry’s thumb and a severely sprained ankle for Ibaka would have been the dominant talk.
Instead, Nurse gave off the air of calm, so more general matters were discussed first. On that night, the Raptors knocked in 19 3-pointers and gone 21-for-24 on free throws, only extending their lead league in true shooting percentage. Unlike the traditional field-goal percentage, true-shooting percentage factors in deep balls and shots from the stripe, presenting a more accurate picture of how good a particular player or team is when shooting the ball.
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November 19, 2019 at 07:06PM
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