The Star · Apr 16, 2016
Maybe this time, Raptors won’t let fans down: Arthur
Raptor president and GM Masai Ujiri has fired up Raptor fans at Maple Leaf Square before Game 1 for the last two playoffs, swearing on each occasion and he wondered whether he put his team in a bad position because of it.Let’s go back to Paul Pierce for a second, because it matters. Remember what he said, before his Washington Wizards played the 49-win Toronto Raptors, who had swept Washington in the regular season?
“We haven’t done particularly well against Toronto, but I don’t feel they have the ‘It’ that makes you worried. There isn’t a team I look at in the Eastern Conference that makes me say, ‘They are intimidating, we don’t have a chance.’ ”