Why does such an ugly offense have such a high ORTG?

[slaw]

When I last checked we were 10th out of 10 amongst the top 10 offences at passes per game.

We're an anomaly, which means this just might be unsustainable.

Maybe. Last year (by ORTG at BR) they were 10th and this year they are 3rd. That's ~164 games. I'm not sure how big of sample size we need but two seasons seems indicative.

There are certainly legitimate criticisms to be made of the offense but they are tactical and primarily centre around end of quarter/late game scenarios. Do you need a complete strategic overall to fix those issues? Maybe. Or maybe there are less drastic solutions.

[Nilanka]

The Nets did this to us last year, and we had no answer:

The Nets are doubling EVERYBODY on EVERY play and the Raptors are unable to rotate the ball for a decent look. Pathetic.

— Raptors Republic (@raptorsrepublic) May 3, 2014

Let's hope Casey has a few tricks up his sleeve....

[yabadabayolo]

The Nets did this to us last year, and we had no answer:

The Nets are doubling EVERYBODY on EVERY play and the Raptors are unable to rotate the ball for a decent look. Pathetic.

— Raptors Republic (@raptorsrepublic) May 3, 2014

Let's hope Casey has a few tricks up his sleeve....

Isn't that on the players to find the open man. But I also think our problem was that we had no three point shooters on the team last years playoffs. We only had 3 guys on the roster that could actually hit the three. (Gv lowry and kinda Patterson) but Casey still got ridiculed for playing all three together for weird reasons.

I'm sure Casey tells them to pass in that situation, he's not that stupid. He's the coach of a multi million dollar sports franchise, you don't get there by not knowing that. Everyone knows heat your supposto pass when your doubled, there just weren't that many easy passes.

[Cody73]

The Nets did this to us last year, and we had no answer:

The Nets are doubling EVERYBODY on EVERY play and the Raptors are unable to rotate the ball for a decent look. Pathetic.

— Raptors Republic (@raptorsrepublic) May 3, 2014

Let's hope Casey has a few tricks up his sleeve....

Tricks, you say?

[Nilanka]

Isn't that on the players to find the open man. But I also think our problem was that we had no three point shooters on the team last years playoffs. We only had 3 guys on the roster that could actually hit the three. (Gv lowry and kinda Patterson) but Casey still got ridiculed for playing all three together for weird reasons.

I'm sure Casey tells them to pass in that situation, he's not that stupid. He's the coach of a multi million dollar sports franchise, you don't get there by not knowing that. Everyone knows heat your supposto pass when your doubled, there just weren't that many easy passes.

It's on the players to pass, but it's on the coach to prepare his troops. For this one particular game that the tweet was referencing, the Raptors looked completely lost on how to beat such aggressive defense.