Raptors are a team in every sense of the word
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/NBA/article/280959Their 103-91 victory spoke to the essence of why they might be a squad to fear as the season tumbles forward.
If you’ve been around Raptorland from the get-go this season you get the sense that, though the personnel remains largely the same, this isn’t the same happy-go-lucky group that inhabited those red-and-white jerseys a season ago.
The ongoing mess that is Jorge Garbajosa’s left leg hasn’t exactly brought unifying cheer to the locker room. And while last year’s end-of-the-bench fixtures rarely were seen to mope – Uros Slokar played fewer minutes per game than anyone on the roster but was probably the sunniest guy in the room most days – this year’s non-players, almost all of whom can make a credible argument they should be playing, don’t always appear in the mood to tell jokes.
But maybe none of that matters, so long as you’re winning.
The Raptors, though they’ll probably never recapture the us-against-the-world camaraderie of last season’s unexpected run to the playoffs, are still playing, at their best, as unselfishly as they’ve ever done.
And what else matters?
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