Locked On Raptors

In Episode 1620, Sean Woodley is joined by Vivek Jacob (Sportsnet, Raptors in 7) to eat some crow and perform some mea culpas as they reflect back on the things they got the most wrong about the 2023-24 Toronto Raptors. Off the top, they chat about the Raptors' teams they've most misjudged historically, before they get into how they both erred in their predictions that the Raptors would retain Pascal Siakam before the 2024 NBA Trade Deadline. Next, they get into how Sean wildly overestimated the quality of the Raptors' defense at the start of the season with Dennis Schroder in as the lead point of attack defender, while Vivek cops to expecting an O.G. Anunoby offensive leap that never came. Lastly, they chat about Vivek's realization that he was entirely too easy to practice patience with the Raptors' front office and some of their less-inspired moves in the last couple years, while Sean admits that he was oh so very wrong to want the Raptors to trade Scottie Barnes for Damian Lillard -- although the push to