Nothing really worked for the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night. They couldn’t make a shot, they lacked intensity, and they played to the level of a weaker opponent.
Then the bench happened.
In the kind of game that pops up in the dog days of an NBA season, which they are surely in, the Raptors needed one shot of fourth-quarter adrenalin from their backup group to beat the Atlanta Hawks 106-90 at the Air Canada Centre.
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C.J. Miles made a couple of three-pointers, Jakob Poeltl and Pascal Siakam were energetic defensive presences and Delon Wright and Fred VanVleet took care of the backcourt duties to turn a one-point deficit at the end of third quarter into a 10-point lead with four minutes remaining.