Raptors And Knicks, Ships Passing In The Middle Of The East's Night (johnwilmeswords on how New York has taken Toronto’s spot at the bottom of the East’s top)
Two of the NBA’s top three minutes-per-game players come from the Toronto Raptors: Fred VanVleet and O.G. Anunoby. There are reasons for both to be on the floor so often—Anunoby is just damn good, and a prime candidate for Defensive Player of The Year; VanVleet may be having one of the worst seasons of his career, but he’s also having trouble catching a breath because Toronto still badly enough needs someone who can run an offense otherwise full of wingmen.
Last season, it worked fantastically, with the team skipping steps in their development arc to race right away to 48 wins, good for the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference and a compelling first-round playoff matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers. More crucially, it gave them something few teams ever really achieve: style and identity. But this year, it seems like the defensive formula has been solved in the way many expected it to be, but sooner.
The Knicks have played with force and grit, Thibodeau clichés, while not falling victim to exhaustion of the body and mind; Thibodeau perils. Brunson, Hartenstein, and the improvement of their young talent has been key, but so has Randle’s transformation back into the man he was in 2020-21, when he surged to the Most Improved Player award, an All-Star appearance, and All-NBA marks.
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