Toronto coach Dwane Casey demurs from coming up with a new backup plan as the likes of Fred VanVleet and Norm Powell struggle: “It’s up to us to let ’em play through it.”
They could probably make Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the posthumously-honoured poet laureate of this version of the Raptors.
All it takes is a little imagination to see how his words about the little girl with the curl could be adapted to the moment.