I have a jerk friend, let’s call him “Jon H”, who has been needling me about the Raptors since the beginning: “Your mascot is Barney”, “Kobe Bryant scored 81”, “They’ll never win the East”, “Popeye Jones”, and so on. Well, this year I’ve placed a wager with Jon H that the Raptors will make the East final. So now, to silence jerk friends everywhere, I need Dwane Casey to fix his team’s clutch problem.
In the last minute of their games when the scoring margin is not greater than 5, a.