Raptors' Precious Achiuwa's growth spurt not about to stop now Via Mike_Ganter
By the time the Raptors rolled into the playoffs, though, and really from all-star weekend on, Achiuwa was everything the Raptors could have hoped for when they agreed to the sign-and-trade that sent Lowry to Miami.
Games 3, 4, and 5 in particular were some of the best basketball of his young career, and Achiuwa took that into the summer and has come back even better than he left, according to his head coach. Which is not to say Achiuwa wasn’t confident before. This is a very proud young man who knows his combination of speed and size make him a tough matchup for anyone he comes up against, regardless of size as he showed at times in that series with the Sixers and Embiid in particular.Article content
“The second half of the season really made me understand what I’m capable of doing and how much more I could do,” he said. “Just got to keep doing the same thing, having the same approach to the game, and I took that to my workouts as well. It’s kind of like a vision, you take it and run with it.”He can guard 1-through-5 and offensively he can hurt you from just about anywhere on the floor with his ability to shoot from distance and drive with force.