I just read a couple of [Raptors coach] Sam Mitchell quotes that sounded like he was going to be there.

Coach (Sam Mitchell) made adjustments and we executed well. It's a matter of us playing how we know how to play.

[In the TORONTO SUN, Steve Buffery writes that Raptors coach Sam Mitchell] firmly believes, despite all of the gloom and doom predictions by various NBA pundits who predict that the Raptors are heading for the Atlantic Division basement, that his club can make it to the playoffs this year. And one of the reasons for that is that he has a full season as an NBA coach under his belt. ... expects his veterans to step up and the rookies to play well.

It sounded like a super wind tunnel.

I heard something that sounded like a pop, and then I heard a couple seconds later, another pop, pop, pop.

You could see it in his demeanor that he wasn't used to this, ... He wasn't the same coach. A couple of times I had to ask him if he was having fun. He said, 'Mike, losing is never fun.'