But Antetokounmpo and company are showing nothing will come easy for Toronto in first-round series.
The solution, then, was to be themselves, but better. In fairness, this is a solution for many of us: Be what you are, but not the version that eats a whole bag of jellybeans for dinner three times a week. In the case of the Toronto Raptors, they lost Game 1 of their first-round series with the Milwaukee Bucks so badly, with such a series of thuds, that they could hardly be worse.