TORONTO — “As soon as I got the rebound.”

That’s when Toronto Raptors point guard Immanuel Quickley made up his mind about what he was going to do in the final possession against the Indiana Pacers.

There were 11 seconds left in the game.

Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl had just come from across the lane to swat his old friend Pascal Siakam’s potentially game-winning lay-up off the backboard, and the floor was scrambled in what was a tie game that the Raptors probably didn’t deserve to win, at least on paper.

Teams that shoot 5-of-25 from the three-point line and 38.9 per cent overall on their way to scoring just 97 points in the super-charged offensive era of the NBA don’t win too many games like that.

The Raptors hadn’t scored fewer than 100 points in any game this season. Their lowest

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