It wasn’t the final indignity nor was it the first or the last, but with about half of the second quarter remaining, Nick Nurse had seen enough.
Steven Adams of the Memphis Grizzlies, a powerful man but not one blessed with blazing speed, had simply beaten every Raptor down the court after a missed Toronto shot, taking a pass from Ja Morant and completing a lightning quick transition opportunity.
Nurse marched onto the Scotiabank Arena court, angrily called timeout and quickly made a pair of substitutions.
It didn’t really matter who came out and who went in — it was Chris Boucher and Jeff Dowtin Jr.