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Don't let Lou Williams' recklessness as a shooter or end-of-quarter isolation escapades frustrate you too much. He's still a keeper.

The reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year averaged 15.5 points and 2.1 assists in 25.2 minutes, providing the Raptors with another offensive weapon capable of taking over games at a moment's notice.

He mastered the art of getting his defender to leave his feet through pump fakes. Just don't refer to them as fakes to his face, though. “Shot fakes? I don’t pump-fake,” Williams said back in November, via Eric Koreen of the National Post. “Nah, I just create contact.”

He also finished eighth in the NBA in free-throw attempts per minute, according to NBA.com.

Williams and the Raptors were a match in heaven. Dave Zarum of Sportsnet.ca wrote, "But in Toronto, Williams found himself in a perfect situation, on an ambitious team with a defined role that suits him perfectly (in five words: Go out there and score), and both the team and player have benefited greatly."

Having complete faith in Williams' ability to score on any given night is a test of one's emotional stability, though. It's all about taking the good with the bad, and the bad did rear its ugly head more often than not.

Despite his high scoring output, Williams only managed to shoot 40.4 percent from the field and 34.0 percent from behind the arc. When he wasn't drawing fouls, Williams was taking questionable shots with little regard for where he was on the floor.

A prime example of this is when he ran down the clock and attempted a game-winner against the Detroit Pistons with his foot on the Pistons' half-court logo on March 24.

He was second on the team in PER (19.9) and third in win shares (6.6), so it wasn't always gloom and doom. Williams is widely considered to be a one-trick pony with his scoring but showed improvement as a facilitator when Kyle Lowry missed time.

Williams has expressed a strong interest in staying north of the border, which bodes well for Ujiri's chances of signing him to a new deal, according to Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca:

[Staying in Toronto] would be ideal for me. Just the culture that they’re building here, just the identity that this team and this town has, I really want to be a part of it. I look forward to it. I don’t want to say hopefully we get something done, I’m really positive that we will get something done. I don’t see why not, at this point. So I just look forward to the future here.

There will be obvious concerns over possible regression heading into next season with Williams coming off a contract year. That shouldn't stop other teams from making a bid and potentially swaying him with a larger role, though.

A two-year deal with a team option for a third in the $8-10-million-per-year range should suffice.