At least it wasn’t as bad as the OKC Thunder loss.
For a bit, it looked like coach Nick Nurse and his Toronto Raptors had enough to get a win against the Indiana Pacers, but whatever worked for the Raptors in the first half felt like an illusion as they got run off the gym by the Pacers in the second half, dropping their third game in four, 118-104.
Life was already tough without Pascal Siakam, and the Raptors were also without Fred VanVleet for tonight’s game. It pushed Nurse to go with an even more unconventional lineup, inserting Otto Porter Jr.