They talk as though it’s some great unsolved mystery, or maybe an NBA conspiracy.
Why can’t the Raptors get to the free-throw line more often than they do? Their 20.2 attempts a game, after all, rank 25th in the league, putting them on pace for the lowest franchise mark in more than a decade. Going back to the first game of the season, head coach Nick Nurse has called getting to the charity stripe with more regularity “a high priority.”
Nurse, routinely suggests it’s the NBA’s officials who are at fault for this gross injustice, an argument that seems to be popular in some corners of the fan base.