Their first basket was a three-pointer that came after more than five minutes of the first quarter had elapsed. The Raptors didn’t make a two-point field goal until early in the second quarter and a highly-anticipated early-season NBA game went pfftt.
Done in by that terrible offensive start, the Raptors couldn’t fight all the way back, eventually dropping a 115-105 decision to the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night, the first meeting between the teams since last spring’s Eastern Conference final.
If there were “statements” to be made from the sixth game of the regular season — and that’s a dubious proposition — it’s that Toronto cannot win when it goes almost the entire first half without getting any of its offence untracked.