We have been working with our counterpart at Raptors Rapture to discuss the East Finals. With the Raptors heading home, we checked in one last time:
Fill in the blank: Overall, the city, the fans and the team feel _______ about this season. Why?
“Relief”
The last thing the Raptors needed was a millstone around their neck, one labeled Playoff Flops. The series wins over Indiana and Miami were hardly classics, but the team’s core, which has been together for several seasons now, had to get them in the plus column. Otherwise fans would have been screaming for the head of Dwane Casey on a stick, the dumping of DeMar DeRozan, and other burning-down-the-house “solutions”.