What happens when a team designed to win games defensively suddenly stops defending? Well, they lose a lot of games. The Toronto Raptors are that team right now. Losers of five out of six and two straight, the collection of long-armed, multi-positional defenders who are on a mission to disrupt and smother and cause chaos are nowhere to be found. On Monday night they kicked off their six-game road trip by allowing the Portland Trail Blazers to shoot 56 per cent from the floor on the second night of a back-to-back. On Saturday they were present – more as spectators than anything – when the Detroit Pistons shot 54 per cent from the floor and scored 127 points. The Pistons came to Toronto as the league’s lowest-rated offence. In their next game, the lowly Sacramento Kings held Detroit to 40 per cent shooting and forced them into 17 turnovers. Against the Raptors? The Pistons looked like the 2017-18 Golden State Warriors. Meanwhile, the Raptors’ identity is shapeshifting before our v...