Man, did we get loaded up this week at Ye Olde Mailbag .

Here’s a whole bunch of stuff to digest before the NBA season really opens here Monday and the baseball playoffs are upon us.

Have fun.

Hi, Doug. St. John’s Ambulance has extra staff around the Rogers Centre, no further comments on that topic!

On to basketball! Some questions:

1) Following up on the “aimless” question from last week, similarly many NBA writers seem to expect virtually no improvement in the Raptors win total. This is regardless of the presence of Brandon Ingram. Any idea why that is? It seems like there’s doubts surrounding fit or chemistry or something? Why the nearly unanimous hate? Basketball

Bobby Webster doesn’t know if these Raptors will work yet. He knows what to do if they don’t

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