QUEBEC CITY—It is a conundrum, one that no one has quite solved yet, and it remains the essential question that’s holding Raptors forward Stanley Johnson back.
He can make three-pointers every now and then, he can make a lot of them and look great doing it and then, like some weird switch gets flipped, he can go stone cold.
And until the 23-year-old finds some measure of consistency, his NBA career is going to be an exercise in futility and frustration and his value to Toronto will go down accordingly.
“He’s getting some opportunities and he’s been a little bit streaky — hot, cold a couple days here,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said of the forward signed by Toronto this summer.