For efficiency’s sake, let’s get the caveats out of the way up front.
Big picture, preseason games are generally smaller than the smallest grain of sand on the beach. The offences and defences can be as vanilla as Dwight Schrute’s courting of Angela Martin and success and failures in these situations need to be met with those things in mind.
While the results of these games are quickly forgotten there are things to gleam, moments that can stick with coaches and hints offered up of what someone can be capable of in a new season. In the wake of the Raptors’ win over the Hornets Saturday night in Charlotte, Nick Nurse had a few of those to process.