No, the culture reset hasn’t reset.
The Toronto Raptors have the sample size of an entire regular season and two playoff games to tell us who they are. They’re a team that’s embraced ball movement — they don’t have assist numbers in the stratosphere, but incremental changes and a team buy-in has made this team fun to watch. 59 wins doesn’t just happen, you have to believe that how you’re playing is the correct way. For most of the season, the Raptors have done just that.
In Games 3 and 4 of this Washington series, though, a few factors have piled up and the Raptors have regressed as a result.