Raptors’ Game 1 loss self-inflicted swoon

The Toronto Raptors react before heading back out for the final second of overtime in Tuesday night’s loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of their second-round NBA playoff series at the Air Canada Centre. (Rick Madonik / Toronto Star)There’s a sequence of events that probably can’t keep repeating itself if the Raptors hope to defeat LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the best-of-seven playoff series that opened with a thud at the Air Canada Centre Tuesday night.

Maybe you observed the disturbing pattern: The Raptors, attacking a laughably porous Cleveland defence, would come down and make an inexplicably dumb play — you know, such as one of their nine first-half turnovers, or…