In a match-up of two top-10 offenses, it was the Toronto Raptors’ suffocating defense that led them past the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night.
Fourteen minutes and nine seconds represented the difference in the Raptors’ second-straight win on the west coast. Between an Ed Davis bucket with 2:14 left in the first quarter and an Evan Turner put-back with 5.4 seconds to go before the half, the Raptors’ held the Blazers without a single make from the field.
It wasn’t a mere random cold streak against a regular NBA defense, either.