PHOENIX—The Raptors are a work in progress — they have been since the season started and will be until the season ends — and the question now is how quickly they can learn valuable lessons.
It is a different team today than it was in November, bigger in some ways, more reliant on multi-faceted performances from players who have never been asked to play some of their roles before. What they do and how quickly they learn over the last 17 games of the regular season is going to hold a lot of sway in whatever post-season success awaits them.