Raptors have to show they have more in reserve

It was way back in 2018 when the wise old sage Fred VanVleet sounded something of an alarm for the Raptors.

It was time, he said the day before the calendar would change, that the team needed to start building its “championship habits” and “do a much better job of going out there and being boring in the way we attack our details and be annoying with just being sticklers about every little thing that we know is going to pay off in the playoffs.”