And now for something completely different.
After much angst and consternation about the perceived third-quarter shortcomings of the Raptors, they went out Tuesday and posted a season-best scoring binge in the third on the way to pasting the Phoenix Suns 126-113 at the Air Canada Centre.
The Raptors hung a 42-point run on visitors — punctuating their highest-scoring third quarter of season with a 10-point flurry in the final 90 seconds — to run their winning streak to four games overall and improve to an NBA-best 10-1 at home.
Despite a sluggish start to the fourth quarter, when an 11-2 Phoenix run made it a game again, the Raptors had enough to put away an opponent playing its sixth consecutive road game and second on consecutive nights.