Toronto is playing better having won eight out of 10, part of their success is because they’re playing better defense. KAT played a hard 39 min last night and this number seems a tad high.

Karl-Anthony Towns has already faced the Raptors three times this season. In those games, he scored 24, 31 and 27 points. While Towns logged 38 minutes against the Rockets on Monday, he has not had problems in the second game of back-to-back sets. In five previous situations this season, he scored at least 24 points in all five games. The Raptors have the sixth-worst defensive rating in the league, so look for Towns to have another big scoring performance against them.

Once Toronto got healthy, it got good as the Dinos have won eight of 10. Now they get a Knicks team that played a very back-and-forth game tonight in rallying to beat Houston without injured former Raptor OG Anunoby -- and he almost surely won't play Tuesday. Jalen Brunson, KAT, Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges all had to play at least 37 minutes on Monday night, so we could see at least one of them sit here (Hart was iffy as it was). Wait, I forgot that Tom Thibodeau considers the term "load management" to be akin to someone insulting his mother. But I have to think the Knicks will be dragging in the second half regardless Tuesday.