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RSS FeedsRaptors earn best shot at the King: Arthur
(The Star Health)

 
 

28 april 2017 05:48:56

 
Raptors earn best shot at the King: Arthur
(The Star Health)
 


MILWAUKEE—Maybe you were howling it at your television screens when the 25-point lead was down to 13; maybe you were screaming it when the lead was eight, then three, then gone. There were so many times to bellow from the rooftops: SAME OLD RAPTORS.But they couldn’t hear you. In fairness, they couldn’t hear anything, because that lead was vanishing like Pepto-Bismol poured down a drain, and it felt like every man, woman and child in Wisconsin was emptying their lungs in the Bradley Center. The Bucks had found life and the Raptors looked like the ball had been coated in school-room glue, and that 25-point lead vanished in the din. Oh, hell. Game 7, again.And then, unexpectedly, they didn’t let it happen. The Raptors pulled out Game 6 over the Milwaukee Bucks, 92-89. They will play Cleveland and LeBron James, starting Monday night.“We just kept fighting, kept scratching, kept competing . . . but we made it harder than it needed to be,” said coach Dwane Casey. “I loved our resiliency. I love that our guys didn’t cave in. I’ve coached guys that would have caved in under that pressure — the arena, the crowd.”Down two with three minutes left, DeMar DeRozan’s endless well of self-confidence got them a bucket. Down two again, Patrick Patterson — the formerly indispensable Raptor who had been recently forgotten, lost in a slump — played give-and-go with Cory Joseph and dunked to tie it again. The Raptors got a stop, moved the ball, and Joseph, who was 0-for-3 for the game, nailed a three.“You’ve got to play until that clock reads zero, zero, zero,” said Joseph. “I was just saying in the timeout — because it seemed a little bit intense, and guys were a little bit uptight on the bench — I was just telling them, relax, let’s run some plays, let’s move the ball, let’s keep doing the things that got us up that high in ...


 
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