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Raptors Insider: Front office uncertain how to approach NBA trade deadline with injuries ravaging team

There are those in the highest ranks of Raptors management who figured it would take 20 games or about a month of the season to learn just what the team was, what it needed and how the pieces fit. Then they could start figuring out what, precisely, to do.

Good luck with that.

Not only have injuries, illnesses and absences, messed up the short term, they are also screwing with the longer-term plans as well.

It’s impossible today to fully determine who can handle what responsibility and where the cracks in the foundation are.