There's been an evolution taking place with the Toronto Raptors and Nick Nurse's offense moving away from the midrange game. A strategy that's been around for a few years and started with the Houston Rockets Manager Daryl Morey, hence the name "Moreyball".

The offensive strategy is predicated on the idea that the best shots are either right at the rim or from 3-point range and mid-range shots should be take sparingly.

When the Raptors lost Kawhi Leonard, who was one of their best mid-range shooters, the transition made sense. There isn't a big difference in distance between a mid-range shot and a three-point shot but there is a big difference of point value.

Kaitlin O'Toole is joined by All Raptors reporter Aaron Rose for more on this.

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Kaitlin O'Toole: There's been an evolution taking place with the Toronto Raptors and Nick Nurse's offense moving away from the mid-range game, a strategy that's been around for a few years. Joining me now from All Raptors is Aaron Rose. Aaron, you wrote about how the Raptors have adopted the Moreyball offense. Can you break that down for us a little bit?

Aaron Rose: Yeah, it's an offensive strategy named after Daryl Morey to the Houston Rockets General Manager, and it's all about making basketball as efficient as possible. So his idea is you want to take shots that are right at the rim where teams shoot really well, 50, 60 percent right under the basket, whether that's lapse or dunks. And if you're not going to take those shots, you might as well get behind the three-point line where shots are worth 50 percent more. It's kind of cause the demise of the mid-range because midrange shots are almost shot at the same percentage, three-point shots, but they're worth 50 percent less. So the idea is maximizing efficiency in the NBA. And it's something the Raptors have really started to focus on this year.

Kaitlin O'Toole: So let's talk about that then, they've been focusing on it. But why is it just because it's more efficient?

Aaron Rose: Well, the Raptors obviously want to optimize efficiency and it's something the league is doing as a whole. But without Kawhi Leonard this year's he's off to Los Angeles to join the Clippers. He's one of the best mid-range shooters in the NBA. So they've had to adapt their offense without him. So they jumped from shooting 70 percent of their shots, either at the rim or behind the three-point line. This year, it's all the way up to 77 percent. That's a jump from the 12th, most in the league to the fourth-most in the league. They have four players. Terence Davis, OG Anunoby, Fred VanVleet and Kyle Lowry, who are all shooting 80 percent of their shots either at the rim or behind the Three-Point Arc. It's a team that's really adopted this more three-ball strategy and it's probably going to continue to look this way for the years to come.

Kaitlin O'Toole: All right. Makes sense while they're doing it. Thank you so much for breaking this down for us. Aaron, I appreciate it.