Even knowing the second half of the season would be easier than the first, you’d be silly to think the Toronto Raptors would take every game easily. Coming out of the All-Star break, with only a pair of meaningful games in the month of March (Houston on Friday, Cleveland on the 21st), the Raptors were destined to fight their own apathy more than opponents.
Maybe that’s coming from a braggadocios place, but it’s also rooted in fact. The Raptors are damn good. They have the league’s second-best point differential, have been blowing out lottery teams all year, and earned more than a handful of statement wins.