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Almost there.

Or to hear Dwane Casey tell it, about 44 minutes out of 48 minutes of the way there.

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One could easily make the case that the biggest area of improvement for the Raptors this year has been ball movement.

Everything else they have done stems from ball movement. Even the success of the second unit is due in large part to ball movement.

When the ball is hopping and switching sides and the defence is moving, shots open up and scoring becomes easier.

Those assist numbers that everyone is always talking about — Toronto has gone from 30th in the league a year ago when they averaged 18.5 to 10th this year with 23.4 a game — obviously don’t happen without ball movement.

And for the bulk of the game, the Raptors coaching staff has been more than satisfied with what they have seen.

But for whatever reason, and not even Casey is sure why this happens, that ball movement tends to slow down in the waning moments of tight games.