Less than 24 hours after Raptors coach Nick Nurse said Terence Davis II’s eight minutes against the Portland Trail Blazers were “probably five too many,” the guard found himself in Toronto’s starting lineup for the second night of back-to-back games with something to prove.
The rookie shooting guard did just that in Tuesday’s 112-110 overtime win at the Charlotte Hornets. If the 17 points and nine rebounds Davis put up in regulation time wasn’t enough, a pair of threes and a pair of rebounds in the extra five minutes likely got Davis back in Nurse’s good books. Davis also did enough defensively to ensure hot-handed Terry Rozier III, who led the Hornets with 27 points, was off the mark with a buzzer-beating three-point attempt.