Three biggest factors needed for game 6 win

A layup from Kyle Lowry put Toronto ahead by 10 with 1:55 remaining.

The Toronto Raptors were able to close out their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series, while the Indiana Pacers have stretched their first-round series to the limit. The Raptors trailed by 53-50 at half; they were 0-23 in playoff games where they trailed at the half before today. Beal had to take on a bigger role with Wall missing two months with a knee injury. Over the course of the series, the Wizards realized their best strategy was essentially doing the opposite of what used to work: switching pick-and-rolls and trying to lure Toronto’s guards into being simply scorers, not passers.

The Raptors finally took their first lead of the game, 65-64, with 6:52 left in the third quarter when Lowry tossed up an alley-oop lob to DeRozan, a play the two had wowed Air Canada Centre crowds with numerous times in the regular season.

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The Raptors missed their first three shots of the game, but then made six of their next seven. VanVleet is questionable for tonight’s game, but regardless of his status Wright has carved out a defined role this series. He led the team in scoring with 24 and added six points and six boards.

Ty Lawson is shooting a playoff-best 5-7 (71.4%) from 3-point range, but just 2-15 (13.3%) from 2-point range in this series.

Head to head, the home team is 5-0 ATS in the last five meetings, the favorite is 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings and the under is 4-1 in the last five meetings in Washington. Toronto has drilled at least 11 three-pointers in four of five games in this series, and they have also received a solid contribution from several players. When VanVleet was on the floor, the Raptors were a +12.

Obviously Fred VanVleet returned and boosted the confidence of his bench Broskis considerably. “Which, again, we didn’t want”. Celebrate it until midnight. We’ve been fighting a lot, trying to figure out our groove and just trying to get back to where we are.

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“It’s nothing different than we’ve done, we were just adding Freddie to the group”, Casey said after the win.

During their last five games, the Wizards have scored an average of 110.2 points per game (3.4 above their season average) and allowed an average of 110.6 points per game (4.3 above their season average).

“In my humble opinion, he’s the coach of the year“. The Raptors pulled away at the end behind a great effort from Kyle Lowry. “We’ve got to shoot more threes, we’ve got to play faster, but we’ve also got to be disciplined in knowing what the gameplan is, and we’ve got to stick with the gameplan”. I kind of felt bad.

If you’ve been following the league for more than a year, you’d know the Golden State warriors have two sharpshooters on their team in Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, nicknamed the Splash Brothers.

“You hate it, you hate it for him”, Brooks said.