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Chess game plays out in Raptors-Bucks playoff cauldron

Gaining any edge in the post-season only gets harder the deeper you go into the post-season.

Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo found less room to operate under pressure from Raptors P.J. Tucker and Jonas Valanciunas in Game 2 on Tuesday night.

MILWAUKEE—It is predictable and important that the Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks spend hours trying to figure out how to make subtle adjustments to their games as their best-of-seven NBA playoff series rambles on.

Coach Dwane Casey and his staff have poured over video trying to help the Raptors get free of the swarming, trapping Milwaukee defence, figuring out different ways to loosen it up, perhaps with different combinations, perhaps by taking different angles of attack.