East heavyweight Boston made Toronto pay for small mistakes at Scotiabank Arena on Monday night.
The game was typical of the way the season, still with plenty of time in it, has gone for Toronto: enough maddening inconsistency and crucial mistakes at both ends to show that they are not at the level of the Celtics today. Two ghastly turnovers in the final three minutes — one a blown three-on-one break, the other a mishandled pass — were killers on a night when the Raptors were good, but not good enough.
Boston brought not only the best record in the league into the game but also the most explosive offence, averaging 120 points on every 100 possessions. “A lot of them can take off the bounce and ... if they’re beating you off the dribble and you help, they find the right guys,” Nurse said before the game.
The Raptors did it well at times, but not nearly consistently enough, which has been the team’s major failing all season.
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