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RSS FeedsBruce Arthur: It´s a series now after Raptors come to Kawhi´s rescue in Game 4 win over Bucks
(The Star Television)

 
 

22 may 2019 11:40:38

 
Bruce Arthur: It´s a series now after Raptors come to Kawhi´s rescue in Game 4 win over Bucks
(The Star Television)
 


Kawhi Leonard looked like your dad, creaking and slow, first thing in the morning. Who wouldn’t, really? He had taken everything, eaten all that he could, gone past what he probably thought were his limits. Finally, Kawhi looked tired. Carry a team long enough and it wears on the legs. And that’s before you really start to limp.And finally, in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final, the Toronto Raptors were the ones who picked him up.“We know,” said backup point guard Fred VanVleet, after Toronto blew out the Bucks 120-102 to even the series at two games apiece. “We know we’ve got to be better. We see all the stuff. We see what the narrative has turned into, Kawhi Leonard and the backup singers. We understand that. Sometimes it’s been like that, and there’s a lot of stuff that goes into that. We’ve kind of formed our team around him, and there’s a give-and-take there.“But we knew we had to be better, so just do the same s--t we did tonight.”In an Eastern Conference final that could have been lost in this game, or the last one, it was Toronto’s bench that finally arrived. Kawhi had played a career-high 52 minutes in Game 3 while taking the primary defensive duties on Giannis Antetokounmpo, the elastic Shaq. Kawhi started that game limping on his left leg, and ended it limping on his right, holding the quad that cost him a whole season in San Antonio, and whose treatment or mistreatment paved his path to Toronto.And when he dunked on Giannis on a cut in the third quarter, he limped to the free-throw line. His jumper was short, short, short. He was hunting steals, trying to keep Giannis out of the paint, trying to bash his way to the free-throw line. Pascal Siakam, meanwhile, had played 51 minutes in Game 3, and was collecting fouls. It had to be someone else.“I mean, yeah, we were concerned,” said Raptors coach Nick Nurse. “I think he’s fine. I think he’s fi ...


 
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