There were rough patches and bright spots, and the road will likely only get bumpier from here. But for one night at least, the Raptors found a way to navigate through the great unknown created by their injury woes. via michaelgrange l WeTheNorth
. Some shaky bench minutes from the Raptors suddenly razor-thin bench allowed the Wizards to come back from a down 12 in the fourth quarter to tie the game with 3:43 to play. in the final 9.9 seconds were enough to hold the Wizards off despite 37 points from Washington’s Bradley Beal.
The wildcard would be who would soak up Siakam’s 37 minutes. Nurse opted to go small and start Patrick McCaw, who was playing just his fifth game since missing 19 after knee surgery.After that? Nurse was open to pretty much anything from the 11 healthy bodies he had on hand. Over a six-minute stint spanning the end of the third and the start of the fourth quarter against the bench of the NBA’s worst defensive team, the Raptors were outscored 21-16. The ball movement was not – let’s say – fluid.
It helped that the Raptors were playing the Wizards, decimated by injuries themselves and who limped in with an 8-18 mark and sporting a league-worst defensive rating of 116.1 per game which their fourth-ranked offence can’t quite offset.
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