Then don't imply it.
And then this is a real strawman.
When I have ever said that Ray's attacks
connected on Kizaru during the fight? Ray was giving it all, but never managed to land a clear hit on Kizaru. And Ray himself said it.
Even in sword fight, the two were going toe toe.
And you don't have the concept of shame, apparently.
Oda made plenty clear that Ray was doing all
he could to
save the lives of the SH; he even had Ray himself saying it.
Now, how you manage to get from this crystal clear admission, with Ray huffing and expressing his inability to do more
explicitly, with the lives of Luffy and his firends on the line, to Ray actually noy trying, I don't really know.
It is that difficult to admit that Kizaru matched Ray?