Even in games they’ve won handily, the Raptors haven’t once looked like a finished product this season. And frankly, that probably won’t be the case at all during what is very much a fact-finding season for a team on the rise. This is a team with disjointedness baked into its DNA. It’s a roster of long, spindly dudes, many of whom are being asked to expand their games in ways they might not yet even be coordinated enough to attain.
But through the bouts of miserable offensive process and stretches where Nick Nurse’s detail-oriented defense overwhelms those trying to execute it, you get glimpses of what the end product just might look like which, frankly, kick ass.