After the first few years of his NBA career were marked by inconsistency, Chris Boucher has finally figured out how to unlock the best version of himself on a night-to-night basis for the Toronto Raptors. (OrenWeisfeld)
“It was one of the worst games ever. My family, they wanted to shut down the TV,” Boucher said shortly after the game. “…I was like, oh, I’m finally going to be the No. 1 guy, the go-to guy, and I didn’t realize how hard it is to be that guy, day out and day in.”
Still, it was hard to blame Boucher for taking the opportunity and trying to run with it. Boucher was coming off a career year in 2020-21, averaging 13.6 points per game while shooting 51.4 per cent from the floor and 38.3 per cent from three-point range. “I feel like coming from the G League , I kinda felt like I was going to get that role back eventually in the NBA,” Boucher said. “…So I thought I was ready for [that in] the league. I think the fact that I was waiting for that for so long, when I first got my opportunity [in Cleveland], I got a little thirsty I would say.”
After the first few years of his NBA career were marked by inconsistency, Boucher has finally figured out how to unlock the best version of himself on a night-to-night basis. And he credits that to knowing his role and accepting it. “Just to ease up my mind. Be free in my head,” Boucher says about why he meditates. “Obviously you play your best basketball when you’re free. And I think when you’ve got a lot of things going on, sometimes it’s stressful. So meditation just helped me with that: just bringing me to a place where I’m comfortable. And where I know I can do a lot of different stuff: focus on the game plan, defensive scheme, because we got a lot of things going on here.
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