The history of Raptors elimination games is, to put it kindly, not great. There's really only one good memory -- Game 5 of the Raptors/Knicks series back in 2001. That's it; that's all we've got. One game in which the Raps' star player lived up to his moniker, the role players did what they were supposed to do, and the breaks of the game went Toronto's way. It still feels good in retrospect.
Today's Game 6 between the Raptors and the Pacers is fraught with a lot of needless tension. It's needless in the sense that many -- like me -- feel as though we shouldn't be here.