It took some doing, but Toronto did it. They made the Golden State Warriors — the most super of all past super-teams, an unstoppable vehicle of basketball destruction, a team owned in part by at least one overweening shithead — sympathetic. Even by Toronto sports standards, this is a whole other level of accomplishment.
By now you know the story. The first quarter of Game 5 featured the Raptors playing catch-up, engaged as they were in a new game of slowing the Warriors with a returned Kevin Durant.