Raptors hurt by frustratingly familiar defensive breakdowns in latest loss
The Sacramento Kings defeated the Toronto Raptors 126-124 as the Raptors were without O.G. Anunoby and Norm Powell.
| January 29, 2021, 11:07 PM
January 29, 2021, 11:07 PM
As the Toronto Raptors try to turn their season into a place of calm and consistency, where the unconscious mind can take over -- basketball as a Zen Garden, basically -- they keep getting rudely interrupted by the record scratch of reality.
The NBA doesn’t work that way -- calmly, that is. While Toronto has been spared the roster and schedule tumult that some teams have had to deal with due to the pandemic, the Raptors have had to adjust to a last-minute relocation to Tampa, an early-season skid down the Eastern Conference standings and more lately a steady drumbeat of minor physical tweaks and nicks and knocks that has disturbed their line up just enough.