King James reigns over collapse
Hidden, perhaps, in the wake of Cleveland's 93-90 victory that stunned an Air Canada Centre crowd into silence, will be the way the Raptors blew a 20-point lead with lackadaisical efforts in two key components of any game.
It will be the team's utter inability to finish quarters with a sense of purpose that ticks them off. It will be the abject failure to rebound that makes them angry.
Cavaliers superstar in a league of his own
But helping James' cause was the way the Raptors played him in that decisive fourth quarter, when he outscored Toronto 24-20. Instead of sending a double-team or trapping him to force him to get rid of the ball and then try to deny him the chance to get it back, Toronto played him relatively straight up.
It was a costly decision because even when he didn't score, he made plays
