Part two of the schedule dropped today, and it does not include any meetings with the Miami Heat. This is a good thing.
Toronto lost to the Heat on Wednesday in the way they typically lose to the Heat. There were elbows, there were clutch Jimmy Butler buckets in crunch time, and there was a seemingly impenetrable zone defense in the Raptors’ way for more than half of the game. The Raps battled through such obstacles nobly for long stretches, as they do in these types of games. But some poorly-timed, wretched possessions in the fourth quarter, some weak sauce defensive rebounding, and a complete write off of an evening for Pascal Siakam left Toronto on the wrong end of a 116-108 final score.