The Toronto Raptors dismantled a reeling Bulls team by 39 points on Saturday evening, behind a complete and total team effort. Fred VanVleet led all scorers with 18, while Danny Green and Serge Ibaka chipped in 17 and 16 respectively.
The story coming into tonight’s game was the short-handed roster that the Toronto Raptors trotted out — four of the team’s most important wings were on the bench due to injury, or in the case of Kawhi Leonard: “load management.” To pick up the slack, reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week Pascal Siakam was expected to handle a sizeable chunk of the offensive load after posting 17.