On our That’s A Rap Podcast last week, I mentioned that I thought this Raptors-Thunder home-and-home series was the only thing left to look forward to in this Raptors regular season, what with the Thunder being the only real contender left on the Raptors’ schedule.
For 2.5 quarters last night it looked like I might be wrong! Then things got real, and proved that an NBA Finals series between these two teams could actually be pretty great.
Late-Game Execution Struggles
You don’t have to be a basketball savant to see that the way the Raptors played in the final eight minutes or so was significantly different than how they’d played through the first three quarters.