Analyzing the Raptors top 4 players w/ Samson & Jack
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Who are Samson and Jack and what is this Raptors episode about?
You know what I want.
Not Samson, Greg! Not Samson! Not Samson!
Everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Samson's Saturday. Lewis isn't here, so something's happening. In this case, talking to a chap from across the pond, Jack Quantrill, who I met in person at Summer League finally after we collaborated on so many different podcasts together. He has given insights into draft sleepers on this podcast before. I've given insights into Team Canada podcasts. I was way too low on Keyshawn George. It appears already, already. And we've been talking basketball together for years at this point. Jack, how are you doing? We're here to talk Raptors.
I'm brilliant, good sir, and how are you today? No, I'm really good, man. I'm always happy to come on Raptors Republic. I listen to a lot of NBA podcasts, but yours is the only team podcast that I regularly tune into, and I'm not a Raptors fan, so I'm just going full glaze to start. Wow. The more I talk about the NBA this season, the more confused I get. Like, I had Harrison Fagan on yesterday, and we spoke about the Lakers for an hour, and it was like, I don't really know what's going on there. I don't really know what's going on with Boston, and I'm going to try and make sense of what's going on in Toronto with you today. So...
enlightened me well we'll we'll both try and work together to come out enlightened in the end because for for podcast listeners which is includes yourself which thank you uh podcast listeners you know jackie's coming in as a big time brandon ingram booster so we'll have a very interesting conversation around him but also the lakers i mean i was just digging around on like synergy leaderboards and they just get like 30 drives per game of the highest points per possession between luca and austin and just there's nobody else who can come close like shea yes but he doesn't have a second driver so i suspect the lakers are just eating alive on drives i mean i watched them do so against the raptors all this to say i'm gonna intro this i had a tweet that you know i was i tweeted it out mostly so i could say it during this podcast so
a third of the way through the raptor season yes later today for listeners they're playing the celtics but they are 17 and 11 they are the third seed in the conference they're 13th on offense 17th on defense they're number one in transition frequency number four enforcing turnovers they are 10th in pick and roll points per possession 19th in isolation points per possession and 22nd in post-up points per possession The best plays currently are Brandon Ingram handoffs, Scottie as a role man, IQ coming off a screen, and RJ Barrett cutting. RJ is also sublime coming off of handoffs as well. Jack, what's your sniff test on the Raptors thus far?
In a way, without the mercurial driving talent, sort of similar to the Lakers. So it's sort of a reload of yesterday's conversation because you look at the record, you look at the seeding in the East, and then you go to sort of some of the advanced stuff and you look at the net racing and the two things don't quite align. But I think... what what one like quite nice place to start is it does feel like the NBA is telling us more than ever that there are 1 million ways to skin the proverbial cat and like that's what the Raptors are proving this year if you look at all of the stuff that was said pre-season all of the stuff that was really said around the time of the Ingram trade it's like why are they doing this they're giving up this uh
know protected first round pick for a guy that's won most improved before for a guy that has like been an all-star before what why are they doing that why are they adding that to the team and just sort of going away from where the hell is this team going where is the ceiling of this team to suddenly like actually succeeding in the 25 26 season it has been I wouldn't say a pleasant surprise because as we were talking pre-pod, I was cautiously optimistic about this Raptors team, but I don't know if it's happened quite in the way that I thought it would.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who are Samson and Jack and what is this Raptors episode about?
0:00–18:02
2
How are the Raptors performing one-third into the season (records, offense/defense, play types)?
18:02–35:38
3
How has Brandon Ingram integrated into Toronto and what role is he playing offensively?
35:38–1:09:56
4
Is Brandon Ingram being maximized as a playmaker or scorer in today’s NBA context?
1:09:56–1:15:34