With some time off this week, the Raptors put together a mere 2-1 run of games. In this triangulation of effort, we arrive at the current situation for Toronto: one win with a singular performance (54 points from Fred VanVleet!), one great win that included quite a team effort (in Brooklyn), and then a disappointing, seemingly unavoidable loss. Are we meant to be pleased with this situation?
The Power Rankings continue, of course, and we’ll have to see how they account for the extreme highs of this past week when balanced against the unfortunate lows. In truth, I’m perhaps overselling the despair a bit here: the outcome in Atlanta — a relatively narrow loss against a solid team on the second night of a back-to-back — was not that bad.