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It's difficult to know the internal dynamics of a team, but I have a strong suspicion that Serge Ibaka is pissed off at the humiliating way the Raptors have been playing, and will probably jump at the chance of a big payday somewhere else after this season.

He and PJ Tucker were brought in to add some defensive meanness, but it looks like it wasn't enough to leaven the softness of the Raptors as a whole. They're shrinking violets right now. It's embarrassing.

Cleveland just looks mean. They set the tone right from the start with that showboating off the backboard alley-oop dunk, and Kyre Irving's been doing all his dipsy-doo dribbling like he's on a playground. I mean, one or both of those guys should have been knocked on to their keisters with a hard intentional foul by now, just as a show of self-respect, but it hasn't happened.

Charles Oakley must be absolutely cringing right now.