The Toronto Raptors closed out their road trip by beating the Atlanta Hawks — the NBA’s second-worst — team fairly easily last night... but not easily enough that we didn’t get a little fourth quarter drama. Let’s jump in to the thoughts:
The Return of JV, 50% three-point shooter
Last game, I made a note to talk about Jonas Valanciunas’ three-point shooting, but then that game went in a dozen different directions and I had to scrap it. After Valanciunas missed his first three-point attempt last night, I wrote it down again; the point was that, after becoming a respectable threat from deep last year, even on limited attempts, Valanciunas’ percentage was down this year and the shot wasn’t much of a danger to opponents.