Following a season that saw the Raptors win 59 games and land the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, Toronto was swept (again) by LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
While it’s disconcerting for a top-seed to be swept — and in any round, much less the second — caveats apply when it concerns one of the best two or three players to ever lace ’em up in the NBA.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, and while there’s certainly questions that need to be asked of the coaching job (i.e. the method that Casey chose to deploy in trying to stop the Kyle Korver–Kevin Love pick-and-roll, or how they tried to slow down James), it was hardly Casey’s fault that the Raptors lost.