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The Toronto Raptors are still holding onto the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, having won 10 of their last 11 games, as well as three in a row after taking down the Washington Wizards on their floor on Friday night.
With only 21 games left in the schedule, many wonder if coach Dwane Casey will finally start to shorten up his rotation in hopes to get his players acclimated to the heavy load that awaits in the postseason.
To Casey, there is no reason to, given how well his team has performed as of late.
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“We will find out. The goal is to find out,” said Casey, according to Jeff Zillgitt of USA TODAY Sports. “Why not? What is our record right now? So why change this because some rulebook somewhere, if you find it, please send it to me because I have been on some teams where you keep the same rotation, and somebody somewhere in the back of a room says well, playoffs you have to shorten your rotation, so we have to find out unless this group proves us wrong.”
The Raptors rank among the most productive benches in the league and for Casey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The likes of Fred Van Vleet, C.J. Miles, Delon Wright, and Jakob Poeltl have been nothing short of dynamite in the last 20 games of the season, allowing the team to surge and create a one-game gap with the Boston Celtics for first place.
