Title: Reviewing our 15 bold predictions entering the Raptors 2019-20 season
Date: September 23, 2020
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I reviewed some of the more aggressive predictions I made before the season.
Vindicated. I am selfish, I am wrong. I am right, I swear I’m right, swear I knew it all along.” – Dashboard Confessional
There are a lot of ways you can make yourself feel better about the predictions you made.
That’s especially true for an exercise like our preseason “bold” predictions for the 2019-20 Toronto Raptors season. After all, the entire point was to be bold, and that’s going to lead to a lower success rate. You can also talk yourself into things like process over results.
“Hey, I got this wrong, but the thinking behind the pick was prescient.” And the fact that the season was paused for over four months because of a global pandemic gives you some cover.
But if you want to claim the ones you got right, you have to own what you got wrong. And so it is with a heavy heart and a single missed Matt Thomas 3-pointer, that we look back at the 15 bold predictions we made back in October for the Raptors season.
Blake Murphy Sports Writing 