You can’t start a basketball game much worse than that. Going into Milwaukee to face the Bucks, the Toronto Raptors found themselves down 26 less than 18 minutes after the opening tip. The offense looked disjointed, the defensive rotations were sloppy, and in the rare occasions of a clean look, nothing seemed to drop.
Toronto started the game 5-28 from the floor with six turnovers. On the other side, the Bucks were hitting 54-percent of their looks from the field and over 50-percent from beyond the arc. It was the definition of a woodshed beating.
Then all of a sudden, shots started to fall, Milwaukee wasn’t hitting everything, and at the half, the lead was a somewhat reasonable 16-points, even if it felt like 40.