It is smart business practice to take what you’ve experienced and apply it to future endeavours and it goes for the Raptors as it does for any corporation in the world.
The team has come through an up-and-down first half of the NBA season — 17-19 as it prepares to start the second half Thursday against Atlanta in Tampa, Fla. — and it has shown flashes of being able to vault to the upper echelon of the Eastern Conference. But that’s only if some things they saw in the first half are fixed or maintained in the second half.