It’s strange. Of course it’s strange.
Dump fewer than 50 Raptors players, coaches and staff members into virtual isolation in a ritzy hotel on the Gulf Coast of Florida — no family, no friends, no gawkers, no tourists, not a ton of staff and a pandemic raging all around — and strange is what you get. But these are strange times for everyone and figuring things out as the inevitable blips come up is the way to survive.
“It’s just been different and not ideal,” Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said on a conference call Monday morning.