Serge Ibaka gives the Raptors a much better chance against the Cleveland Cavaliers. But aside from looking at the makeup of his team and addressing concerns about the present, he might have been casting a furtive eye at Ohio and thinking “if we’ve got to beat Cleveland, we’ve got to do this” before making the transactions. Tucker have given the Raptors since they were obtained in February, a lot of their worth will be determined by the impact they have on the next two weeks. “Hopefully we focus more on how we got the lead,” Patrick Patterson said of the 25-point advantage the Raptors coughed up in Milwaukee. Defensively we talked, we were physical without fouling and got stops and rebounds and that led to transition.

Source: thestar April 28, 2017 17:49 UTC