There was something heartening about coach Dwane Casey mentioning his team’s consistency. He knows having a team with a lot of young guys means having to deal with up-and-down play. Some nights Fred VanVleet will go off for 10 points out of nowhere, or Jakob Poeltl will grab 14 rebounds, and so on. And then both could very well disappear in a different game — who knows?
But really, what have the Raptors been over the past, hmm, forever number of years, if not consistently inconsistent? Some nights DeMar DeRozan’s jumper goes in, other times it doesn’t; sometimes Jonas Valanciunas can’t be stopped, sometimes he looks like the Caveman Lawyer out there.