With the Raptors coming off an enormous victory over Houston, a 26-point win over the Knicks, and riding an eight game win streak, Tuesday night’s game versus the Brooklyn Nets could very well be described as a trap game.
There would be two ways the game would go for the Raptors: they’d either win like they did against the Nets on December 15 (a 33-point win) or they would see a motivated Nets team like they did on January 8, where the Raptors squeezed out a one-point overtime win.
It would be more of the latter, with the Nets controlling a majority of the first half but losing control late in the fourth, allowing the Raptors to pull out a 116-102 win.