Trust the Toronto Raptors. Yes, they trail the Boston Celtics in this second-round series three games to two, because Monday night in Orlando they got smoked. It’s hard for every player to play badly at once, even with a seven-man rotation. Monday night, the Raptors did.
But now it doesn’t matter if the Raptors got smushed in Game 5 because they were tired, because you can trust they’ll bring it on Wednesday. The only question is whether they’ll still be tired when they play Game 6, with the season on the line.
“We just weren’t with it tonight, which was disappointing,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said after Toronto’s 111-89 loss in Game 5.