Locked On Raptors

In Episode 1502, Sean Woodley goes solo to recap an 0-2 weekend for the Toronto Raptors that featured a chaotic and maddening overtime loss to the Chicago Bulls, a hard-fought loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, and a whole of extremely promising signs out of Scottie Barnes. Off the top, Sean digs into why the biggest takeaway from this weekend isn't any of the bad stuff that led to the Raptors' dropping both their games and falling to 1-2 on the season, but rather the overwhelmingly positive play of Scottie Barnes, whose 21-9-7 line on 62.5% True Shooting has all sorts of indication that Barnes' star turn is very much underway. The fact that the Raptors' next most important young player, Gradey Dick, poured in 16 points on 4/6 shooting from deep over 28 minutes on Saturday against the Sixers is another big picture win for a team that has lots of smaller scale issues to clean up. Next, Sean digs into Pascal Siakam's strange role within the offense, and details why a simple switch in the offensive roles occupied b