Eric Spoelstra, the Miami Heat coach, was saying it the other night. You can prep and scout and draw up the best offensive schemes, and you can run your intelligently selected sets with precision and force. But in the world’s best basketball league, sometimes even the smartest moves of the human chess pieces still won’t be enough. Sometimes the play breaks down, the defence gets the best of you, and there’s only one way to avoid turning a broken play into an empty possession. You need the type of rare NBA talent who, to use Spoelstra’s phrase, can “create something out of nothing.
Raptors’ roster may be bruised, but it’s not broken
