The team here at Raptors HQ understands your worries. They’re warranted: the Raptors played awful basketball two games in a row, after some of their best play of the season. But let’s not panic — every team in the league has games like what we just witnessed. They have weeks where practice time is scarce, and in-game execution is rocky at best. The holiday break always takes a few victims just because of how distracting it is — remember: they’re also human.
Since Thursday morning, I’ve read opinions ranging from “trade Lowry and DeRozan” to “Masai Ujiri isn’t as good as we think.