If there is a silver lining to the Raptors' recent playoff losses, it's that they offer plenty of lessons. juliackreuz breaks them down:
“We’ve been forced into go off-script a lot,” Nursethe week before the playoffs. “We’ve been looking at different lineups, different second units, different starting lineups, different combinations, small, big, super big. And I guess the whole point of that was we get some type of familiarity with things not just being perfect all the time. And I feel good about that.”
From that first-round loss to the Brooklyn Nets in 2014 to consecutive sweeps by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the past two post-seasons, to a drastic restructuring process, Toronto has gone from overlooked surprise to prime-time contender.“If we had LeBron, we would have won,” DeMar DeRozan said back in 2017 after the Raptors were eliminated by the Cavaliers the first time.
When asked about how a team could beat the Golden State Warriors, Raptors president Masai Ujiri said:Those are some examples of the underdog mindset that needed to be eradicated from the Raptors locker room.
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