Fred VanVleet scored a career-high 36 points and had a big deflection in the dying seconds to lead the Raptors to a victory over the MiamiHEAT.
Pascal Siakam had 22 points, while Serge Ibaka had 15 and Kyle Lowry chipped in with 14 points and eight rebounds as the Raptors stretched their win streak to six games, and improved to 2-0 in the NBA’s restart after the COVID-19 hiatus.
Olynyk’s three-pointer midway through the fourth put Miami up by three, but Siakam’s three-pointer sparked a mini Raptors run and when Lowry dished off a short pass to Ibaka for a dunk, Toronto was back up by six with 6:11 to play. “I think we certainly had a really rough game for a lot of minutes down there last time,” said coach Nick Nurse. “That was a good learning experience for us. We probably practised a little bit more, put in a few more looks, worked on some different scenarios against not only that zone but other zones that we see, and may see. Just part of the learning process for us.”
The Raptors face the toughest opponents of the 22 teams in the NBA’s “bubble” at Walt Disney World. But their big 107-92 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers — in which they held the Lakers to a season-low 35 per cent shooting — in Saturday’s opener showed the Raptors aren’t concerned.
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