Raptors can seal a 10-win month of March Sunday against woeful Sixers

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When it comes to NBA tanks – Aragon, the Raptors continue to lose their time-honored game as the competitive packaging loses its historic game.

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As a Washington Wizard, he won a rare victory when Jamal Shead’s obvious buzzer hitter was overturned by video comments.

When they hosted the host in Indiana Thursday night, the Pacers beat the Wizards 53 points in a high score of 162 points.

In terms of defeat, the room for victory became the third-highest game of the season, trailing the Los Angeles Clippers’ 62-point victory in Brooklyn and Boston’s 54-point victory in New Year’s Eve.

When it comes to historical losses, the 53-point margin of failure is the most unbalanced in wizard history.

Boston’s 54-point embarrassment is the biggest room for failure in the history of the Raptors.

The loss is in an ugly stretch that will leave Toronto losing 16 of 17 games.

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The way times change, even if one can make strong arguments about Toronto’s latest success, reduces the opposite effect of the lottery draft.

The three-straight winner, with a championship of 14 against a secondary opponent, is a relative term that, considering the Raptors’ lot, ends with the seventh seed in the league’s reverse ranking, seems to be a virtual lock.

Naturally, things may change as the Raptors season dwindles to the last eight, but they look unlikely.

Sunday’s opponent, host Philadelphia 76ers, threw a towel a few weeks ago.

Almost the time of eliminating its season from Philly, there were almost signs of surrender after the club’s offseason acquisition of Paul George.

The start of 3-13 sets the tone and it gets worse.

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The Sixers entered Saturday’s residence date, while the Miami Heat lost six straight games.

Nick Nurse is the former NBA coach of the year, leading the Raptors to the NBA title in the popular seats.

Raptor franchise icon Kyle Lowry was hurt, leading many to believe Lowry’s game day is over.

Philadelphia entered Saturday with a record of 1-9 in the last 10 games and was hard to recognize as a casual fan of the basketball team along with the roster.

In the last 10 games, the 76ers, Utah Jazz, Wizards, Hornets, Nets and New Orleans Pelicans have been 12-48.

By comparison, the Raptors have won 6-4 in their last 10 games and won 9 of their last 14 games.

The schedule was very favorable, beating a two-game victory over a exhausted Orlando Magic, two beat a horrible Jazz team that was fined $100,000 for violating the league’s player participation policy, two against the Wizards, two against Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Charlotte.

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The Raptors are still beating the Nets and Hornets, who will play Toronto in their home finale on April 9 before the Raptors ends the season with Dallas and San Antonio.

Philadelphia’s tank method is obvious, and if it lands outside the top six, it will convey its first-round pick to Oklahoma City Thunderbolt.

It is unnecessary every day, and the Sixers tend to do everything they can to retain their top six protected draft picks.

As of Saturday, Utah, Washington and Charlotte had a 14.0% chance to win the lottery draft and had the right to choose Cooper Flagg of Duke University.

As of Saturday, the Raptors had a 7.5% chance to land in the No. 1 pick, 7.8% chance to finish second, 8.1% chance to land in slot 3, and 8.5% chance to draft fourth place, which is where they used the Tampa Tank to ride in the Scottie Barnes slot.

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The Raptors are unlikely to even replace Miami, who entered Philadelphia with a record of 32-41.

The Raptors will enter Sunday’s game 27-47.

The Chicago Bulls will host the Raptors hosts on April Fools’ Day in April, sitting down 33-40, but their lottery odds dropped as they won four of their 10 straight games, while seeing their playoff chances increase, winning four of them.

With current success rates, the Raptors have a chance to avoid a 50-loss season.

There was a time when a 50-win season was the norm, and it was five years of play that would have allowed the club to win a franchise-high 59 games under Dwane Casey.

The Raptors have not made the playoffs since Barnes’ rookie season.

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Obviously, they won’t be this season.

But no matter where they land in the lottery, they have to wait for better days.

When fully healthy, the Sixers will be the best team in this year’s tank country.

If they happen to be Land Flagg, Philadelphia would be a champion contender, and the fragile health of Joel Embiid is dependent on the champion.

Without Embiid, Philly’s Big Three Embiid, George and Tyrese Maxie, the Sixers have been with Guerschon Yabusele, Justin Edwards, Quentin Grimes, Ricky Council IV and Adem Bona, among others.

Grimes scored 22 points on Thursday night in Philly’s 119-114 home loss, the ninth straight game, and he scored at least 22 points.

During that time, Grimes made a 46-point game in Houston.

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His offense didn’t do his best to improve the Sixers, who won two wins twice in Grimes’ scoring frenzy.

The Raptors were 9-5 in March, partly due to improved defense, but mainly due to poor opponents.

Since the embarrassment on New Year’s Eve, the Raptors have scored 17-12.

What to do can be explained and debated.

As far as tank work is concerned, the Raptors’ approach has not completely disappeared.

They can always be lucky on the May 12 lottery and the team with much lower odds, namely Chicago (1.7%), when it grabbed home point guard Derrick Rose in 2008, they showed it could happen.

But this is rare, and reality is still a chance for the Raptors to raise their flag.

fzicarelli@postmedia.com

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