We started this season with a god’s dream.
The Raptors were entering yet another season with one finger in the leaking dam that is their power forward spot. After the departure of Luis Scola, Masai Ujiri signed Jared Sullinger to a bargain bin contract. The hope was he could shape up, grab some rebounds, shoot some jumpers, and do just enough defensively to keep Toronto in games.
That... hasn’t worked out. Sullinger broke his foot in the preseason and has yet to return to NBA shape. The Raptors still don’t know what they have in him (and may never find out), and had to make do with a patchwork rotation of Pascal Siakam, Patrick Patterson, Lucas Nogueira, and Jakob Poetl.