With the Raptors looking sluggish to start Monday night’s game against Orlando, it was fair to wonder if maybe the Magic really do have Toronto’s number. Coach Nick Nurse said as much before the game, noting that this aspirant Orlando squad has killed the Raps twice already, allowing Toronto just one ugly buzzer-beating win in November. Maybe, with their mix of youth, bounce, and length, the Magic are just a bad match-up for the Raptors. In my best Nurse cadence, let me ask: it’s possible... right?
Wrong. For all of the Magic’s exuberance, the missing link in their three previous games was a full Toronto squad bringing themselves together and to bear on solving the problem that is (was?