The Raptors are beginning to occupy by some netherworld of the mind, a middle space between winning and losing, a limbo. I’m here to tell you this is not an enjoyable experience. The winning is nice, don’t get me wrong, even when it comes on a random Sunday afternoon against a deflated Clippers team. A win is a win and all that.
But the losing now takes on elemental importance, creating as it does a foreboding narrative of eventual doom. Even though the number of Ws still outrank the Ls by over a 2-to-1 margin, this is how we feel about the Raptors.