Five thoughts on last night: Celtics 117, Raptors 108

Everything started so beautifully. Heading in to the game, the Celtics were spiralling, and the Raptors were rolling; the first 10 minutes of the game made it seem like the trends would continue. Then a shaky bench finish to the first quarter led into a terrible second quarter for the Raptors... but that was nothing compared to the horrendously brutal, disastrous final three minutes.

I Literally Just Can’t Even

I was the living embodiment of that Saturday Night Live sketch during that fourth quarter stretch last night. The Raptors’ inability to manufacture any kind of offense, while allowing Kyrie Irving to continually break them down at the other end, was just horrifying. I wanted to bury…