They play fast, they attack the rim, they turn defence into offence. And if the Raptors aren’t the best three-point shooting team in the NBA it may not matter a lick.

In a debut that put on display all the best attributes of the team, the Raptors whacked the Hawks 138-118 in Atlanta on Wednesday night in as well-scripted a start to the regular season as they could have hoped for.

It was the highest output on an opening night in franchise history, and in a throwback to a different era the Raptors had 35 baskets inside the semicircle at the rim with only six from behind the arc. Raptors season preview

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They’ve been telling anyone who’d listen that

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