With 25 points (10/19 on shots), 8 assists and 5 rebounds, Bradley Beal evolved slightly above all his season averages against the Raptors. Except the Wizards lost and the guard squandered nine of his team’s 17 stray balls.
” We lost way too many balls. This is unacceptable. It’s 100% my fault. I’ve lost the ball way too many times for us to win “, blames himself the superstar, whose formation conceded 27 points after returning the leather to their opponents.
Clumsiness or defensive intelligence of the Raptors? A bit of both. In addition to failing to ensure certain transmissions, Bradley Beal was the victim of numerous double strikes, including near the center line. Relatively late traps where the second defender comes in support of the first only in a second time with formidable efficiency. Interim Wizards coach Joseph Blair remarked that the Raptors had ” reduced ” the spaces around his player.
” We know the Nick Nurse method, continues Bradley Beal, more generally regretting a lack of response from his team in aggressiveness. Every time I play against him he makes it difficult for me, he tries to take the ball out of my hands. It’s hard for me because it’s not like I’m sending this shit all over the field. There were a lot of defenders when I entered, with active hands. So they made interceptions.“
In this case, 10 balls stolen including 4 for OG Anunoby alone. ” Bradley Beal is one of the toughest players to defend in the league. We’ve seen it catch fire too many times “Recalls Fred VanVleet who himself stole a ball from the hands of his opponent.
His coach, Nick Nurse, believes that the Raptors did not really shine in defense in the first 14 minutes of the game, with 34 points against. ” I found that we had increased the intensity afterwards. We used zone defense on a few possessions. It was fine but it seems to me that when we went back to individual defense, we started deflecting balls.“
With more than 9 interceptions per game, his team, which returned to the top 10 best defenses in the league in January, is the third team in the league in this area.
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| Bradley Beal | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2012-13 | WAS | 56 | 31 | 41.0 | 38.6 | 78.6 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 13.9 |
| 2013-14 | WAS | 73 | 35 | 41.9 | 40.2 | 78.8 | 0.7 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 17.1 |
| 2014-15 | WAS | 63 | 34 | 42.7 | 40.9 | 78.3 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 15.3 |
| 2015-16 | WAS | 55 | 31 | 44.9 | 38.7 | 76.7 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 17.4 |
| 2016-17 | WAS | 77 | 35 | 48.2 | 40.4 | 82.5 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 23.1 |
| 2017-18 | WAS | 82 | 36 | 46.0 | 37.5 | 79.1 | 0.7 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 22.7 |
| 2018-19 | WAS | 82 | 37 | 47.5 | 35.1 | 80.8 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 25.6 |
| 2019-20 | WAS | 57 | 36 | 45.5 | 35.3 | 84.2 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 30.5 |
| 2020-21 | WAS | 60 | 36 | 48.5 | 34.9 | 88.9 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 31.3 |
| 2021-22 | WAS | 36 | 36 | 45.3 | 30.3 | 83.3 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 6.4 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 23.7 |
| Total | 641 | 35 | 45.6 | 37.3 | 82.1 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 22.1 | |
