TORONTO — Offensive precision wouldn’t necessarily have been used to describe RJ Barrett earlier in his NBA career.

Managing possessions was not exactly his thing. Barrett was more about using his confidence, will and physicality like a hammer to break the defence over and over again.

Sometimes it worked, but not always.

And over his still-young career, he’d developed a reputation, fairly or not, as someone who looked at offensive opportunities as something that came in volume.

Brandon Ingram said as much earlier this year, when asked who among his new teammates with the Raptors had surprised him. “I thought (Barrett) was just a gunner,” Ingram explained. “I thought he just shot the ball a lot. But watching his game and seeing him work … I’ve seen what he works on, and how it transfers

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