It was a tough week for the Toronto Raptors. Coming off an impressive seven-game winning streak, the defending champs had the script reversed on them, as they went 0-3 in their most recent stretch. The losses all came to opponents with above .500 records, dropping the Raptors record against such opponents to a miserable 3-7.
Despite their recent hardships, the Toronto Raptors still sit just 1.5 games back of the 2-seed, and with a relatively easy stretch of opponents coming up, they are in a solid position to eat up ground on the teams immediately ahead of them.