The general consensus around last night’s performance by the Raptors in San Antonio is clear: it sucked. The Raps were beaten up, shook, rim-rocked, shell-shocked, and every other descriptor one would care to apply to the method in which the Spurs defeated them. We’d hoped it would be a different way, but, sadly, it was not.
That’s just the text of the game, however — a humdrum performance by one team, an excellent effort by another, a win, a loss, a January NBA game coming and going, on to the next one.