INDIANAPOLIS—All series long the Toronto Raptors have been waiting for Kyle Lowry. Not for all of him, because he was present, as much as he could be. He has spent the series picking locks, pushing levers, finding cracks in the walls.
But he couldn’t bust through them, because he could not shoot. DeMar DeRozan has had one lonely signature game; Lowry has not. And still, the Raptors led the series with the Indiana Pacers 3-2, and could have closed out their first-ever best-of-seven playoff victory on a Friday night in Indianapolis. One good game, you thought.