It is still a work in progress, there are tiny kinks to be worked about, but you can see it coming, And it’s going to stand the Raptors in very good stead when the NBA playoffs arrive and experience counts for so very much.
A veteran point guard and a very big man, each with basketball IQs near the top of the charts, are figuring each other out. And watching Marc Gasol and Kyle Lowry develop some symbiotic existence just five games into their Toronto coupling is exactly what coach Nick Nurse imagined when he was presented with the 11-year veteran centre at the trade deadline.