It wasn’t perfection that Dwane Casey was asking of the Toronto Raptors, but it was pretty close to it.
So dangerous are the Cleveland Cavaliers, so multi-dimensional, that the only way to beat them is to play almost flawless basketball and that’s just what the Raptors did Saturday night.
Bismack Biyombo supplied the energy that fuelled the season’s loudest Air Canada Centre crowd and DeMar DeRozan took care of the offence as the Raptors clawed back into the NBA Eastern Conference final with a 99-84 win in Game 3.
The Cavs lead the best-of-seven series 2-1 with Game 4 in Toronto on Monday and Game 5 in Cleveland on Wednesday.