They are patient men, Masai Ujiri and Bobby Webster are, they are not prone to making rash decisions. They are basketball executives who like to let a team breathe and grow and take its time figuring out precisely what it is.
But eventually the Raptors president and general manager must strike, to do something to either give the existing roster a boost or to retrench for the longer term. Decision time is coming up on them and the patience they have shown since the middle of the summer may now be tested.
The unofficial NBA trade season opened Sunday and, with 25 games behind them, Ujiri and Webster have enough of a baseline to know what they want to do.