Math remains Raptors’ greatest foe

The year was 2017-18. Dwane Casey, helped by his then-assistant Nick Nurse, redesigned the Toronto Raptors’ offence to emphasize analytics, modernity, and efficiency. Read: more triples. Behind Kyle Lowry’s 40-percent accuracy on more than seven triples a game (only Steph Curry and Paul George surpassed him in both categories that season), the Raptors took 34.8 percent of their shots from behind the arc, good for fifth in the league. Toronto’s offence jumped to third in the lea