The mindless mistakes, the deflating mistakes, the egregious mistakes that professionals shouldn’t make.
Those are the galling moments that are holding the Raptors back and need to be cleaned up if the NBA season is going to be turned around.
- Grabbing a rebound and immediately making a brutal pass to someone on the other team.
- A brain cramp on defence that leaves the lane wide open for an energy-sapping dunk.
- A pass thrown into the courtside darkness because someone went one way when they should have gone another.