With the benefit of hindsight, 24 games from now it may seem obvious to say the Milwaukee Bucks couldn’t have had a better possible opponent to face on their return from the All-Star break than the Toronto Raptors.
In a rematch of last season’s hotly contested first round playoff series, the Bucks and Raptors went to overtime for the second time this season at Air Canada Centre, yet on this occasion it was the Bucks who prevailed with the win.
Clearly motivated and determined to get a win against a team that has regularly beaten them in spite of a variety of factors shaping it into one of the East’s most exciting rivalries, the Bucks meant business on Friday night.