Pascal Siakam carefully stepped down off the press conference podium on Monday, resting a hand on a Raptors staff member for support.
Kyle Lowry spoke to reporters with his injured left hand stuffed in his blue compression oven mitt glove.A day after they clawed out a 118-112 victory over Milwaukee in double overtime, the Toronto Raptors were feeling every one of the 58 hard-fought minutes.
"It's all about recovery right now, rest as much as your body needs it to rest," said Lowry, who sprained his left thumb in Game 7 of the conference semifinals. "No one at this time of the season is 100 per cent but you get to a point where you feel good and go into the next game. Your job is your job, adrenaline takes over, preparation takes over so you'll be ready to go for .
A prevailing thought at Monday's Bucks' availability with media was that Milwaukee's loss was more about the Bucks playing poorly, not the Raptors playing well.The Raptors disagreed. Fred VanVleet, who TV broadcasters often call "Steady Freddy," has been anything but, his three-point shooting plummeting from 37.8 per cent in the regular season to 19.5 per cent this post-season. Sunday, he was a woeful 1-for-11 from the field, and made just one of his eight shots from deep.
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