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Yeah, I honestly preferred the play-in format of the bubble, where teams needed to be within a certain number of games-back of the 8th-place team, in order to be play-in eligible. There's no reason to give a team that's more than 4 games back of 8th a play-in.

Regardless, really entertaining game by the Raptors last night. Can't complain about the style of basketball they're playing right now. Great to see Flynn and Trent Jr in particular playing well. I was also kinda impressed with Gillespie. Granted this was mostly garbage time against the Cavs, but he definitely didn't look like an undrafted, first-game in the league guy out there. Could be a guy they hold onto and try developing.

An interesting stat about the Raptors, they're currently on pace to be the worst (standings-wise) team to finish with a positive plus/minus in NBA history, by a wide margin. I think that speaks to the theory that they could do a relatively quick retooling and return to the upper levels of the league.