Everything is different in the NBA Finals: the daily schedule, the practices and the games. Bigger and different and more laser-focused and busier.
Always busier.
It’s not normal, and it’s hard to deal with the changes to routine. As the series between the Raptors and Golden State Warriors got back underway Sunday night at Scotiabank Arena, one of the prevalent emotions for all connected with it was: finally.
That’s mostly because there would be fresh questions and fresh issues to discuss.
“I don’t know, maybe we have another media session scheduled for 5 o’clock this evening and I’ll say the same thing, which is that transition defence is where it starts, and we were just careless getting back,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said in one of his many between-games media sessions.