There were always going to be little dips in the quality level of the Raptors season. Last week, with the defense waxing and waning on the perimeter and at the rim, some of us — including me! — were ready to tailspin into full-on (late 2014-15 season) anxiety mode. The team had lost some bad games, two in a row in fact, and it was a concern.
For most of the game against the Boston Celtics, it looked like the Raptors were heading towards another loss and a period of intense introspection. But it didn’t happen that way.