All night long, it was easy to imagine the worst. Great start, but the Indiana Pacers were hanging around, hanging around. The Raptors were better, but you could see the seams, the holes, the rips in the fabric. Paul George wasn’t going to do it again, was he? Not again. It would be devastating, if he did it again.
And then the Toronto Raptors won Game 2 of their first-round series, and avoided the flood of panic and pressure that was waiting to be unleashed. Truth be told, they eventually made it comfortable. By the end you could see that the Pacers were a one-man offensive team that struggles when you don’t hand them the ball 20 times, and also waste all kinds of chances at the other end.