Jared Weiss

He also hit a couple floaters, which I'm going to come back to.

Now, I've been hearing about how important

RJ Barrett has been for this Raptors team.

If you haven't heard the stat, the Raptors are 16-6 when RJ Barrett plays, basically a 60-win pace.

And they're 7-9 when he doesn't play.

And it's because of his effect on the offense.

According to pbpstats.com, when RJ's on the court, the Raptors have a 119.5 offensive rating.

And for context, that'd be around a top five offense if they always played like that.

When he's off the court, it drops to a 112.3, which would be around the sixth worst offense of the league.

On cleaning the glass, you can break it down by half-court offense and transition offense.

When RJ's on the court, the Raptors' half-court offense is 11 points per 100 possessions better than when he's off, and that differential is in the 96th percentile across the entire NBA.

So I was looking through his individual stats.

I was trying to get a better idea of, like, what has changed so much about his offensive game?

Because a lot of it looks the same, but the thing that jumps out is how efficient he has been in that floater range, that area 3 to 10 feet away from the basket.

It's always been part of his game.

He's pretty consistently taken around 25% of his shots in that area.

But this season...

He is wildly more efficient.

Here are his shooting percentages in floater range by year over his entire career.

27%, 32%, 31%, 40%, 42%, 39% last season, and then 50% so far this year.