The Toronto Raptors have lost three games in a row. Opposing players such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, Karl-Anthony Towns, Rudy Gobert, and Jayson Tatum sat out those three games, but it didn’t matter – teams can now feel comfortable resting their stars against the Raptors. Toronto held sizeable leads in all three games and have been close in the final minutes, but just haven’t been able to close. They’ve lost on last-second rip-through fouls, questionable timeouts, and all sorts of unfortunate, uninspired crunch time possessions. The team is discovering new ways to lose basketball games almost nightly which, depending on your outlook on this season, is either deeply frustrating or a display of exquisite tanking.
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