You could walk away from the Raptors’ 109-105 play-in loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night with a disinterested shrug.
It was worth asking, after the Raptors collapsed under the pressure of a tight game for the umpteenth time this season: What, precisely, was the point of all that?
This futile post-trade deadline adventure in attempting to become a wannabe playoff team, almost certainly set up to fail against the No. 1 seeded Milwaukee Bucks, didn’t come cheaply. The Raptors wouldn’t have even been playing a home play-in game without the pre-deadline acquisition of Jakob Poeltl.