WASHINGTON—In the lead-up to Sunday’s Raptors-Wizards Game 4, Toronto coach Dwane Casey posed a rhetorical question for public consumption.
“How do we respond?” the coach wondered.
The Raptors had been run off the Capital One Arena floor in a Game 3 loss, dropping their first game of the series in a turnover-rife shambles of a contest that saw Toronto’s players, veterans and youngsters alike, lose their cool in the face of Washington’s timely injection of physicality.
“How do you respond when someone is up in your chest and trying to make you feel uncomfortable?” Casey said.