The fun is done.
“It’s time now,” point guard Fred VanVleet said of the Raptors after a good-but-not-great season ended Thursday night. “That’s about as much building as we all want to do. I think we have the pieces, and now (it’s) how do you put those pieces together.”
And so they go into the off-season happy but not satisfied, pleased but not complacent, and determined somehow to be better collectively when they regroup for training camp in the fall.
“It’s weird to be in such an up-in-the-air season where nobody thought you were going to be any good, but you know you are good,” VanVleet said.