Toronto Raptors center Jakob Poeltl recently gave his thoughts on the team’s offense following their 1-3 start.
(via Toronto Raptors):
Reporter: “Darko [Rajakovic] sort of said that the passing is going on, but maybe you’re not getting into going downhill until it’s later in the shot clock. Do you feel that sort of lack of crispness?”
Poeltl: “I think sometimes we just gotta be a little bit smarter about it. We’re trying to apply the stuff that we do in practice into the game. We’re trying to have this drive-kick-swing offense, like play through the elbows, trying cuts, different split screens, stuff like that. But at times we get in this mode where I don’t think we’re really doing it on purpose, but it seems like everybody’s just trying to make something happen almost randomly. Like we’re not on the same page, and then we just dribble into a crowd, try and kick out, the next guy is dribbling into a crowd, we’re not really getting any advantages out of it. So we gotta find a way to do it with a little bit more…it might be timing, the decision making’s gotta be better to actually create advantages out of that offense.”
