Raptors-Cavaliers 3.0 gets going Tuesday night after a pair of mostly lop-sided decisions in favour of the side with LeBron James ousted Toronto in each of the last two post-seasons. By now, Raptors fans are mostly familiar with Cleveland — LeBron James is pretty good, their shooters like to get hot against Toronto, Predatory Loans Arena is a bit of a house of horrors, and Dahtnay Jones is probably lurking at the end of the Cavs bench waiting to dick punch someone in garbage time.
This is, however, a vastly different Cavs team from the one that swept Toronto last year, and even from the one that that suffered murder by bench in the Raptors’ 34-point win back in January.