MILWAUKEE—All Nick Nurse wanted from the Raptors defence was everything.
Help in the paint to close off passage to the front of the rim for the Milwaukee Bucks; still get back out to close out on three-point shooters before they had time to comfortably get set and shoot; be able to get back in transition and not get confused or out of whack in finding someone appropriate to guard.
It was a large request from the team’s head coach and probably an unfair one, but it was to be one of the ways the Raptors were going to be able to steal Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Conference final here Friday night.