The long road back has never looked longer than it does right now for the Raptors.
While they missed two key players in OG Anunoby and Norm Powell, a disheartening performance on Friday night will leave them once again searching for answers.
A 126-121 loss to the Sacramento Kings, hardly one of the NBA’s elite teams and one of the worst defensive teams in the game by many metrics cannot simply be chalked up to the diminished roster.
Even a late rally that got Toronto within a point with about a minute left was little more than fool’s gold because of the way the Raptors had performed for the first 44 minutes of the game.