When people bring up this year’s version of the Toronto Raptors, the word you’ll often hear associated with the team is “annoying”.
Toronto’s roster is built to be a collective pest, with a bunch of 6’8” bodies representing the ugly, hairy arms — poking, prodding and needling opponents into submission, even when it looks clumsy.
To be annoying, though, you have to put in the effort. That’s why this season is so tenuous for the Raptors — when the team has a flat effort, it’s going to be obvious... and it’s going to hurt.
Such was the case on Wednesday evening, as the Raptors came into TD Garden and got more or less flattened by the Celtics.