The Toronto Raptors endured one of those nights against the Denver Nuggets. Perhaps they might have gotten away with such a poor performance against a cellar-dweller, but the Nuggets are anything but. The visitors slipped away with a late victory.
What jumped off the page, so to speak, in this one?
Second-chance points are killers
We may need to strike a search party to uncover the remains of the Raptors’ defensive rebounding. Denver outscored Toronto 23-2 in second-chance points, which looks like a typo unless you saw the game. The Nuggets pulled down 15 offensive boards, to the Raptors’ 7.