As Toronto Raptor fans continue to white-knuckle drive towards the trade deadline, the team is slipping further and further down the NBA rankings. Toronto trots into a clash with the LA Clippers on a three-game losing skid, and facing Raptor royalty in Kawhi Leonard isn’t exactly a promising outlook to stop the bleeding.
The Raptors are coming off of a gut-punch loss to the Grizzlies bench where they looked lackadaisical at best and checked-out at worst, which say what you want about this Raptors season but they usually show up looking like they want to be there.
In the Memphis matchup, though, it was the visitors who seemed to be first to every ball and fight harder for every board.