At first, last night’s game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Toronto Raptors looked awful. Both teams looked rusty and neither seemed to want to play D. And the shorthanded Raptors looked like they wouldn’t put up much of a fight against the Hawks, falling behind by as many as 19 points in the second quarter.
Then things turned around and the Raptors suddenly looked like the better team, dominating the third to take the lead and pushing that lead to 15 midway through the fourth. They were well on their way to a win… until they ran out of steam and gave up a 28-8 run to close the game, one that ended on a Tony Snell three-pointer as time expired.