Don’t panic — it’s not time for that. However, you should be unsettled by Friday’s loss to Utah.
DeMar DeRozan and Co. is hunkered down this weekend after arguably the worst loss of their season. The Raptors are normally pristine executors of the game plan — a symptom of great coaching efforts. But, in Friday’s loss to the Jazz (currently not one of the good teams in the NBA), the Raptors, and Kyle Lowry specifically, became unglued from their foundation and flittered around the court with reckless abandon when it mattered most.