When Will gets to the league, the main talking point was always his inability to play in the interior, which he gets warned that he will be “killed” in. His coach, Dennis Cooper, makes it clear during a film study session that Will is best utilized on-ball as a ball handler and a contested shooter, and he doesn’t actually need to get past his man.
And in a beautiful last second play, Brandon Ingram out-dueled Pascal Siakam for the game winner. Driving straight before stopping and immediately pulling-up, Ingram hit the contested middy over Pascal to secure the Raptors’ 9th win in their (at the time) win streak and a trip to the Emirates NBA Cup.
