PHILADELPHIA—The Toronto Raptors should have won Game 2 of this series, and didn’t. It wasn’t the end of the world; it was one game against a good team in the Philadelphia 76ers, but Toronto was still in good shape. Those things only come back to haunt them if you let them.
Well, it’s on the table. In Game 3, the 76ers played well for the first time in the series, and Joel Embiid was larger than life for the first time in the series, and you could see how this thing could unravel. Philadelphia is bigger, and in this game Philadelphia was better.