It got worse from there as the Raptors were down by five with 2:41 to play, but they were helped immeasurably by a pair of triples down the stretch by Patterson, including one that rattled home with 28 seconds left to tie the score at 102 and sent the game into overtime after the Raptors forced a 24-second clock violation and Lowry missed a prayer at the end of regulation. They made a mess of it in the third as they allowed Denver to recover from a 14-point deficit to draw within a point to start the fourth. The other pieces yielded by Gay combined for six more as Toronto took a 62-52 lead into the half.
Williams hesitated and paused and shifted speeds on his way to 13 of the Raptors’ 27 second-quarter points.
Led by their bench Toronto looked like it was going to end the Nuggets’ night early.
