At some point in a playoff series, a team breaks from itself. It doesn’t mean they lose, necessarily, or have lost; it means the plan they walked in with has been tested, and fractured on the shoals. So you break what you were, and change it.
The Toronto Raptors may already be there. Two losses into the Eastern Conference final against a relentless Milwaukee Bucks team, the hard choices are here. Danny Green has had a great year, but he is creaking. And centre Marc Gasol, two games in, has been frazzled, even cooked.