The Toronto Raptors maintain their status as the least-publicized contending team in the NBA. Even the San Antonio Spurs, because of their astonishing two decades of success, are in the discussion of possible champions more than our team.
Yet if you throw enough buckets of cold water (or in this case, win enough games) on a sleeping man, he’s got to pay attention eventually. Here’s a detailed look at the Raptors’ success from an analytics-oriented source, in which particular notice is taken of the positive change in the team’s offense from last season’s (and the one before, and the one before that…) tedious P & R, and isolation plays.