Kyle Lowry sits with wrist injury while Serge Ibaka and P.J. Tucker post impressive debuts and DeMar DeRozan racks up career-high 43 points at ACC.
A well-oiled machine the Toronto Raptors are not.
Maybe one day they will be, once they get to know the nuances of each other’s games and once they get everyone together for more than a locker- room chat, but for now?
Now they are a group than can be proud of a workmanlike effort to somehow gut out a big win against all odds.