The Toronto Raptors held a predraft workout Thursday with Henry Ellinson (left) the latest to drop by. What you can see, you can be, a fact the Toronto Raptors are finding out too well during the run-up to the June 23 NBA draft. “So many kids nowadays, they see the three-point shot becoming such a key part of the NBA and from a young age these guys are practising it,” Toronto’s scouting director, Dan Tolzman, said Thursday. With the game evolving into one in which everyone’s a three-point shooter and a “stretch four” or a “stretch five,” the proliferation of big men with perimeter skills cannot be avoided. “I think most kids start wanting to be a ball-handler and the guy that does most of the scoring, and as they grow those skills stay with then.

Source: thestar June 03, 2016 13:18 UTC