The Raptors may have stumbled onto a solution for one of their big problems. Or, more literally, an answer to one of the problems with their bigs.
It is no secret that a roster imbalance — too few proven frontcourt players, a surplus of guards and wings who are indistinguishable from each other in too many ways — is an issue coach Nick Nurse has had to wrestle with.
The Raptors really don’t have a legitimate backup to starting forward Pascal Siakam at the four. They have shuffled OG Anunoby there for a few minutes and have tried a couple of other small lineups, but it was a frustrating search without an apparent answer.