Smart guys, these Raptors are, and they’ve shown it all season.
Presented with troubling basketball issues, they’ve found a way to figure them out, to get better shots and make them, to defend with more precision and create a quicker pace.
It’s been a hallmark of the team that posted the best record, by winning percentage, in franchise history.
And it is never more needed than it is today.
The Raptors were bad all over on Sunday, losing 112-94 to the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series and they were smart enough to admit it.