Through all the nights of bad three-point shooting — those 7-for-32 games, the 6-for-30 outings, misfires coming from every player in every conceivable role — the thought around the Raptors was that eventually things would turn around.

They have.

Once thought to be one of the team’s glaring weaknesses, the ability to make three-point shots is now one of its strengths as the final 10 games of the NBA regular season count down.

In their last 10 games, the Raptors are 143 for 368 from beyond the arc, for a nifty 38.8 shooting percentage. It’s elevated them to 12th in three-point accuracy. If they keep up the pace of the last 10 games for the next 10, they will end up among the best three-point shooting teams in the league, and few saw that coming during the dark days of December and January when it seemed they couldn’t shoot threes if their lives depended on it.

“It’s good, let’s keep it rolling,” coach Nick Nurse said this week. “I think we ought to be making more of them.”

Increased accuracy from beyond the arc is attributable to a couple of significant factors.

The ball is moving more quickly and decisively most nights, thanks in no small part to the presence of Marc Gasol, the February acquisition who has a knack for speedily dishing off to open shooters when he gets the ball near the free-throw line. Gasol’s passes might lead to passes that lead to made threes. So he might not get credit for the assist, but make no mistake, his initiating offensive movement makes it easier for everyone.

“I think the change in personnel would maybe be Marc moving it out pretty quickly to some guys,” Nurse said. “Maybe they’re getting another half-stride or full-stride look ’cause it’s getting to them so quickly.”

The other factor is simply that the Raptors have good shooters who are finally getting shots to go in. There is too much history and experience up and down the roster to think that the Raptors were going to be a bad three-point shooting team for an entire season.

Their recent improvement simply has them where many thought they’d eventually get. That it’s happening so late in the season might have created some mid-year frustration, but Nurse has been saying all year that he expected the shooting to come around.

“I think there’s some good shooters out there,” Nurse said. “Danny (Green) can shoot the heck out of it; Kyle (Lowry), Fred (VanVleet), Marc’s a threat, Pascal (Siakam’s) a legitimate threat.

“Kawhi (Leonard is) starting to climb back to more of where he’s accustomed percentage-wise. He’s about 10 percentage points off what he normally shoots, I think.

“Those are good shooters.”

To further illustrate the up-and-down nature of three-point shooting, one of Toronto’s coldest shooters of late was one of its hottest not too long ago. Siakam, who seemingly couldn’t miss a corner three-point attempt for about three weeks, has made just four of his last 23 three-point attempts over a seven-game stretch.

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“I think he’s just riding the season, right?” Nurse said. “It goes up and down a little bit for everybody. (He) got a little hotter maybe than he should have, and now he’s not.”

But just wait awhile. That’s likely to change.

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