This is simply not the year for the Toronto Raptors to be beating around the bush. No one expected this team to be serious championship contenders, but I bet fans and analysts alike also didn’t expect to see a unit that struggles so much with defensive cohesion or shows so little on-court chemistry. The only bright spot was a dominant season-opener win over Atlanta, which felt more like a gaslighting experience than anything, because the team effort/strategy since then has been putrid.
There’s a lot to unpack here about what might be causing this slump. Is it the shooting regression and poor on-court decisions from Immanuel Quickley?