It’s often said that the first contest in a best-of-seven series is a feel-out game, and in the case of the Raptors—who got blasted by Philadelphia this past weekend in Game 1—they’ll likely need that to be the case.
In the series opener, Toronto had a Murphy’s Law sort of performance on defense: Just about anything that could go wrong did go wrong.
- The Raptors’ intricate web on D, like the countless inner parts of a pricey wristwatch, accomplished its main objective, holding scoring champ Joel Embiid and future Hall of Famer James Harden to just 11-of-32 from the field combined.