There’s an obvious problem with doing a Raw Raptor Rankings this week. Can you guess what it is? I’ll give you a moment.
Ding ding ding — it’s because the Raptors didn’t actually play a single second of professional basketball for the past seven days. There were vacations, All-Star Weekend festivities, and probably other events that went down — but nary the sight of a single Raptor dribbling a ball towards a basket in any meaningful sense.
So what are we doing here?
We could have just assessed how each of the young Raptors has done so far this season, but why not try to predict/rank whose performance will be most important for the team?