Gatsby recommends a forecast for the NBA.
In this forecast we bet that Fred VanVleet will score more than 20.5 points in the game that will face the Toronto Raptors and the Washington Wizards.
The main arguments of the forecast are as follows:
- First game of the season for both teams and we find some Toronto Raptors who are already fully facing a reconstruction and have let Kyle Lowry go this summer, in this way they have been left with a fairly loose team and already thinking more about the future than about achieving something this season.
- The departure of Kyle Lowry in exchange for Goran Dragic is a clear downgrade for the Raptors, obviously Dragic is a quality player but with 35 years he is already down and although he can play an important role in the quintet, he is not expected to pull the bandwagon and the Toronto franchise should not aspire to anything this season.With the departure of Lowry and the loss of Siakam, who is not ready to play at the moment, there is an attack that will revolve around Fred VanVleet, a player who has been showing for a couple of years that he has the level to be an important player and that this year he will have the challenge of being the most important player of the team at an offensive level, so a lot is expected of him.Last year VanVleet already averaged 19.6 points per game and to raise him only one point the line seems to me very little for a player who now has full control of the ball in this team, in addition, what the press closest to the Raptors comments is that the plan is for Dragic to play next to him to download pure base work and that in this way VanVleet can be more for the scoring tasks that is what the franchise needs most.The opponent should also not be very demanding, the Wizards were one of the worst defenses last year and nothing makes me think that this situation will change for this season, so I hope for a high scoring game and where we can see VanVleet leading the Raptors and overcoming the proposed line.