The game began off as an excellent microcosm of what you’d expect from the Raptors and Knicks, two of the top ten offenses in the league right now — two squads running, gunning and playing exciting, high powered offensive basketball. The score was a continuous see-saw, alternating between one to two-point leads for each team through the first nine minutes of the opening frame.
Eventually, as we’d hoped, Pascal Siakam and the bench entered the game to quickly inject their relentless energy into the contest on both ends (not just on offense, as was the case before Siakam’s entrance).