Well that was certainly underwhelming, wasn’t it? The Toronto Raptors returned from their six-game road trip on a high, having gone 4-2 and generally playing consistently good basketball for the duration of the trip. A home game against the league’s worst team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, should have been an opportunity to right any wrongs from the previous game — a loss to the Boston Celtics — before a tough stretch that will seem the face the Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers twice each.
Instead, the Raptors came out with no urgency, let Minneosta control the tempo and needed a last-second chance to tie it — which deservedly, rolled off the rim.