While a four-game losing streak in the middle of November for a team that started 12-1 wouldn’t be a particularly big deal in the grand scheme of an 82-game schedule, losing four in a row does look kinda bad!
It’s cliché and dismissive of context, but the whole “good teams don’t lose several games in a row” thing makes some sense. In theory, a talented squad with capable coaching should be able to apply its own tourniquet, and stop the bleeding before the loudest and attention-seeking-est sports media mouths start dishing Takes.
After last night’s loss to the Celtics, in which the Raptors simply ran out of bodies to contend with the Celtics’ depth and Kyrie Irving’s unconscious heater, the Raps are now staring down one of those dreaded prolonged skids.