Dwane Casey expects the Toronto Raptors’ front office to build around Rudy Gay and DeMar DeRozan.
"Rudy is great. It's going to be built around Rudy and DeMar," Casey said. "I think DeMar's growth has been unbelievable."
DeRozan has improved his Player Efficiency Rating from 12.8 as a third-year player to 15.0 this season.
Casey is counting on Jonas Valanciunas to make strides as the Raptors’ interior scorer.
This season, Toronto ranks 27th in percentage of points scored in the paint (37.8).
"Productivity in the paint and I think that's going to come with the maturation of Valanciunas, whose going to be better,” Casey said when asked about avenues of improvement. “This time next year we will be able to have quite a few post-ups for him. His game will elevate to that level. I think we can be really good going forward in the future."