The Raptors can win, Nurse said, without the 33-year-old Lowry doing the kind of heavy lifting that was once expected of him. Kawhi Leonard, left, led the Raptors in Game 1 with 25 points on 10-of-18 shooting; Kyle Lowry had zero points, going 0-for-7 from the floor. Lowry’s dismal, deja-vu-inducing shooting performance had to be heaped onto the long list of suboptimal ingredients the Raptors tossed into Game 1’s unappetizing stew. “I thought he was impacting the game,” Nurse said. It’s the same old Game 1 result, sure, even if we’re pretty sure these aren’t the same old Raptors.

Source: thestar April 14, 2019 02:03 UTC