From career-highs to a smattering of injuries, the four games that the Raptors played saw story-lines that couldn’t be more disparate. The start of the slate saw extremely hot play and featured an entirely healthy roster (save for Nick Nurse favourite, Patrick McCaw) as the Raptors easily dispensed of the Kings and Pelicans. The back-half of the games were an entirely different story and featured an extremely depleted, and by the end of it, extremely tired but pretty damn good team still standing.
Kyle Lowry, Serge Ibaka, OG Anunoby and the aforementioned Patrick McCaw are all without return dates, but thankfully for the purposes of this column, there will still some high and highs and low lows.