Halfway through the third quarter I started hearing some laments from Matt Devlin and Jack Armstrong that I don’t quite agree with. Matt and Jack were evoking the Raptors Boxing Day game against the Dallas Mavericks, a game in which a sluggish Raptors team hit the court still full of turkey and got sonned by J.J. Barea. They described tonight’s game against the Bucks as a “hangover game” for the Raptors, especially highlighting what they believed to be a lack of effort defensively.
This, in my humble opinion, wasn’t actually a hangover game for the Raptors defense.