PHILADELPHIA—The margin for error has always been slim for the Raptors. Maybe no team in the NBA runs its best players harder. Certainly no team affords its bench less rope.
So you could easily paint the situation heading into Game 2 of Toronto’s first-round series with the Philadelphia 76ers as residing on a continuum of grim — something in the range of beyond challenging to severely bleak. Blown out and badly bruised in Game 1, now the Raptors face the prospect of playing Monday night here without starters Scottie Barnes and Gary Trent Jr.