Bismack Biyombo played the best postseason game of his career to help spark his team to a 99-91 win in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, a tandem that has been criticised so far in the playoffs, secured the victory.
The duo combined for 59 points, with DeRozan going for 34 points on 11-for-22 shooting while knocking down every last one of his 11 free-throw attempts, and Lowry filling out the stat sheet with 25 points to go along with 10 rebounds, six assists and three steals.
It was his late shots, a rainbow of a 25-footer the top of the key against the shot clock with 52 seconds to play that put the Raptors up six and a baseline jumper with 23 seconds to go, that sealed it.
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But nobody did it like Biyombo underneath, especially early.
Biyombo, playing increased minutes after Jonas Valanciunas went down for the rest of the series with an ankle injury, set things off for the Raptors on their way to taking a 3-2 series lead.
Toronto jumped out to a 9-0 lead and never trailed in the game. Biyombo scored all 10 of his points in the first half, adding a postseason career-high four blocks as the Raptors built a 20-point lead that shrank to 10 by the break.
He infused the Raptors with enthusiasm and did his part to make sure they established a presence in the low post defensively in the early goings of a game that also didn't feature Heat shot blocker Hassan Whiteside.