At some point, some of your options fail, or disappear. It happens to every team, really. Play enough basketball, and things happen. The question is always the same: What’s left?
Going into Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final against the Milwaukee Bucks — a game that would more or less determine whether this Toronto Raptors season had a chance to continue, or was just about done — the Raptors had spent much of the first three games, and some of the seven before that, trying to answer that question. It wasn’t that they had lost two or three starters to injury.