Can you hear that? That’s the sound of the Toronto Raptors putting together a three-game win streak for the first time in 2020-21. Tonight, they’ll put it on the line against the Miami Heat. Dare they go for four? Well, that could be a taller order. Let’s unpack the situation.
The Raptors got two of their past three wins off the Charlotte Hornets, a renewed team but by no means a power house. And what’s more: both games were uncomfortably close affairs, the kind of game you just do not want to find yourself in against the dang Hornets.