Instead of seeing this, Toronto tied even more of its fortunes to Gay the following season. But he's closer to a top-20 player than he is a top-10. Gay is a good player-he's really good, in fact. The former makes a lot more sense than the latter. Based on the same criteria used above, that usage percentage would put Gay at No. Toronto used him on 29.1 percent of its possessions. Yet once Gay made the switch to the Raptors, that number skyrocketed. 22 in the league among players who appeared in at least 20 games. To put that into perspective, it would've come in at No. Prior to the trade, despite being Memphis' leading scorer, Gay only had a usage percentage of 25.7 percent. In Toronto, he was the whole pie, the player the Raptors staked their fortunes on. In Memphis, Gay was seen as a piece of the pie. But the way he compiled those numbers wasn't good. Indeed, the Raptors did get a player who could score at the same clip-in fact, Gay's scoring increased once in Toronto, elevating it to 19.4 points.
