Looking at the Toronto Raptors schedule and seeing two games against the Milwaukee Bucks and two games against the Philadelphia 76ers (sandwiched around one against the Minnesota Timberwolves), it would be easy to think, well, that’s a 1-4 or 2-3 stretch, 3-2 if we’re lucky.
Yet here we are: after beating the 76ers last night, the Raptors are sitting a 4-0 through the first four games of said stretch.
1. Resilient
There was a true sense of resiliency around last year’s Toronto Raptors, a team that was able to fight through multiple injuries and stay in games and hang around and keep winning.