The Raptors spent about 45 minutes of Sunday’s game giving the struggling Brooklyn Nets hope. Then they flipped the switch in crunch time and won a game that, on paper, should not have been close.

Key defensive stops and a couple of clutch plays on offence had fans at Scotiabank Arena on their feet late in Toronto’s seventh straight win, 119-109 at Scotiabank Arena.

“We really needed good offensive execution there,” head coach Darko Rajakovic said after the Raptors improved to 12-5, second in the Eastern Conference. “I thought that guys got to their spots on the floor. I thought that Brandon Ingram made a couple of great plays there offensively, finding open people.”

Ingram, who passed the career 10,000-point mark, was double-teamed by Nets defenders most of the night. In a thri

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