Heading into the 2017-2018 season, Toronto had already established a history of playoff failures. Toronto was the butt of every joke, and although sometimes unfair, (plenty of other teams also lost to LeBron James) most of their playoff concerns were valid.
But 2017-2018 was going to be different. The team scrapped its old isolation heavy offense for a new system predicated on ball and player movement. Toronto finished with the best record in franchise history, earned the number one seed in the Eastern conference, and the team genuinely felt different.
Round one, Toronto took care of business beating a talented, if dysfunctional, Washington Wizards team.