Let’s be clear about something: Game 1 of the Raptors-Nets first-round series was lost in the first 24 minutes of play. Toronto flexed their title-winning chops on a truly exasperated Nets offense, pressing Brooklyn’s “bubble” creators with their humming defensive machine of hard hedges and blink-of-an-eye traps, thereby placing scoring duties on Brooklyn’s understudy options. Compared to the Charmin Ultra Soft Portland defense the Nets faced in their final seeding game, Toronto’s harmonious and almost laughably-switchable nature was inhumane cruelty personified on a basketball court.
Here’s what Joe Harris had to say to our Anthony Puccio about Toronto’s aggressive nature…
“They were definitely just the more aggressive team, both offensively and defensively to start.