How Chris Boucher plans to expand his game during offseason
On the latest Hustle Play, Chris Boucher outlines his plans for the offseason to become more of an impact player on the Toronto Raptors. Watch the full episode on our Yahoo Sports Canada YouTube channel or listen on the podcast feed.
Video Transcript
- What about your game do you want to improve the most? And this is-- we're going to move on to some other NBA stuff. But before we do, I want to know. Do you want to improve your shooting, ball handling? Break it down.
CHRIS BOUCHER: I mean, I think one thing I got to be able to do is more-- if I could become a D and D guy, that would be amazing-- if I could guard any position and shoot the ball at consistent space, which I feel like I was getting better through the year.
And I definitely finished better this season. But I feel like it's something that I could definitely do. At the end of the year I felt like we were really focusing on that. And I was definitely getting to a point where I was, OK, being able to keep the guy in front of me, which was something that I didn't focus much before.
Because obviously I was like, OK, I've got so much stuff to learn. I got to learn how to do a better closeout. I got to be able to vertical, be able to learn how to take charge, and all that. So I was like, OK, I'm learning all this. But I feel like now that-- obviously through the years that you're getting better, you start unlocking and unload the little details, the little different things that you can get better at.
And that's something I feel like I can help the team with, because I feel like I got-- I definitely got instincts. Sometimes I feel like, OK, I could go, but I just don't, because I don't trust it. And the same-- if I could put the shot blocking things, if I could do it the same way as in defensive, and steals, and all that, I think I could definitely get better at that.