The Toronto Raptors are off to a 1-5 start to the new season, and Kyle Lowry is not happy about it.
After Monday's 126-114 loss to the Boston Celtics, the Raptors point guard did not hold back with his criticism of his own team:
“We just need to get a little bit grittier, get a little bit tougher and a little bit nastier, and have a little bit of a swagger to us,” Lowry said, via of Mike Chiari Bleacher Report. “Right now, we have no swagger to us. We have nothing. There's nothing to us. Teams are looking at us like, ‘All right, let's go eat' … That's not a good feeling.”
Lowry isn't wrong here. Things haven't been going well for Toronto so far this season, and the truth is, the Raptors are not playing like they are legitimate title contender.
This was on full display on Monday, as the Raptors struggled to match the Celtics all night long. Toronto had no answer to Boston's Jayson Tatum, who feasted against a lackluster Raptors defense en route to a game-high 40 points on 11-of-19 shooting and a perfect 13-of-13 line from the charity stripe.
Fred Van Vleet did his best to try and carry a struggling Raptors side, with the 26-year-old finishing with 35 points, six triples, eight rebounds, three assists, and two steals in 33 minutes of action. It was all for nothing, though, as Toronto succumbed to the C's to mark their fifth defeat in six games.
As Kyle Lowry expressed in his message, the Raptors have to start righting the ship soon.
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