The scene in Brooklyn on Wednesday was a common one—and no, the sellout crowd was not it.
The familiar sight was D’Angelo Russell doing his best to shoot the Brooklyn Nets back into contention with the Toronto Raptors. He made three straight three-pointers in the fourth quarter that revved the crowd yearning for a comeback win as he brought the Nets to within five of the Raptors’ lead.
The deficit would have been closer, if not for Pascal Siakam.
As Russell took the game into his own hands, Siakam was the only Raptor to stop his run—capturing one of his five offensive rebounds and putting up a tip shot off Kawhi Leonard’s miss.