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The Raptors arrive fashionably late to the NBA blowout party

Fifteen games into a pandemic season, nobody’s pretending Raptorland is suddenly a basketball utopia.

Pascal Siakam still looks like a confidence-shaken shadow of his all-NBA self. The Raptors are 1-6 against teams .500 or better. If a franchise can’t believe in its presumptive best player, and if it can’t compete against the league’s top teams, it’s only fair to question the product.

Still, recent results have been mildly encouraging. The Raptors have won four of their last five games. A little more than a week removed from co-occupying the league’s basement with the Detroit Pistons, Toronto’s NBAers found themselves a game out of eighth place in the East heading into Saturday’s slate of action.