Raptors’ Kyle Lowry on Game 7: ‘It’s like our Super Bowl. Win or go home’

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TORONTO — Two years after Kyle Lowry got blocked by Brooklyn Nets veteran Paul Pierce at the buzzer, the Toronto Raptors are back in Game 7 again.

And this time, they’re hoping to finally advance past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since May 4, 2001.

“That Game 7 felt like life or death. I only experience it from a losing aspect, and that feeling sucks,” DeMar DeRozan said Saturday, harkening back to Toronto’s heartbreaking 104-103 loss to Brooklyn.

DeRozan has been with the franchise for his entire seven-year career, and has been through it all — the good, the bad and the ugly.

“By far (Sunday) is the biggest game of my career,” DeRozan added.

A lot is riding on the outcome.

“It’s like our Super Bowl,” Lowry said. “Win or go home. It’s one game. Survive or don’t survive. That’s the mentality that we have got to have.”

The Raptors had a chance to close out the Indiana Pacers in Game 6, but were blown out by 18 points. They will have a chance to redeem themselves on Sunday night in front of a raucous crowd inside Air Canada Centre and outside at Jurassic Park.

Toronto coach Dwane Casey’s message to his team on Saturday afternoon at practice was simple.

“Push the reset button,” Casey told them. “You’ve got to go out and do what you did for 82 games. You played at a high …

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