Power Ranking Poll Week 2: Still large and in charge

It’s at least modestly astounding how quickly we’ve become inured to the idea of “Toronto Raptors, best team in the NBA.” Admittedly, in a macro sense, this isn’t quite true — few would favour the Raps in a series against the Warriors, for example — but in the micro day-to-day sense, Toronto has clearly been on top. Peep that header image: even Lorenzo Brown is living large.

Toronto enters this week’s round of Power Rankings with a perfect 6-0 record after another undefeated run of games. It’s a positively giddy time to be a Raptors fan, and yet we’re mostly taking this all in due course. Yes, despite even those collapses in the playoffs, the Raptors have built a baseline level of trust in…