Kyle Lowry: Not Helping Kawhi Leonard Enough After Raptors Lose Game 3 vs. 76ers

The Toronto Raptors find themselves trailing the Philadelphia 76ers two games to one following a 116-95 loss in Game 3 on Thursday night, and All-Star point guard Kyle Lowry has acknowledged that Kawhi Leonard hasn't been getting enough help from his teammates.

Specifically from Lowry himself.

"We've got to help him," Lowry told ESPN's Tim Bontemps on Thursday. "I was literally saying it during the game. We have to help him. He's doing everything he can possibly do offensively and defensively to f--king win games, and myself, I'm not helping him enough.

"I'm not putting it on nobody else but me."

Those comments come following a rough night for Lowry, which saw him score just seven points on 2-of-7 shooting, including 0-of-4 from three-point range. He is now averaging 12.0 PPG on 34.6 percent shooting.

Philadelphia has held Lowry to fewer than 10 points in two of the first three games of the series.

"I've got to play better," Lowry added, per Bontemps. "Literally that is the only thing that matters. I have to play better. Nothing else matters. Plus-minus, charges, everything. Nothing else matters. I have to score the ball and play better offensively.

"If I can get close to where I can be, it would be a different series. We might be a little better off than 2-1, but it's been like this all year for me. It's been an up-and-down year for me, and I can't dwell on anything but continue to try to get better at some point."

Leonard, meanwhile, continued his stellar postseason by going off for 33 points in Game 3, raising his series average to 37.7 points on 61 percent shooting.

Unfortunately for him, though, only two other Toronto players—Pascal Siakam (20 points) and Danny Green (13)—reached double figures on Thursday. 

Leonard (26.6 PPG) averaged nearly 10 points per game more than any other Toronto player during the regular season. But as six different Sixers players reached double digits on Thursday, Lowry understands he and his teammates are going to have to take some of the load off Leonard if they want to make a deep playoff run.

Lowry told Bontemps that he believes the Raptors' supporting cast will have to be "more selfish" and "more assertive" moving forward.

Toronto will have the opportunity to try to even the series up in Game 4 on Sunday.