Are the Raptors Gap Year Contenders?

With the Raptors currently sitting with the league's fourth best record, behind three teams that didn't even make it past the first round last year, could this be one of those years when a dark horse ends up winning the title?

Very thankful to Seattle for a win

Seattle SuperSonics 106, Raptors 114 Thank God for those 22 Seattle turnovers. After the first half it looked liked the Raptors were going to embark on their upcoming 5-game Western nightmare coming off another no-defense lazy loss, but whatever was said at halftime (pretty obvious stuff) sparked the Raps. They finally got around to playing…