globesports.com: Raptors come up flat against Milwaukee
Mitchell didn’t accept the pregame notion that his team might be poised for a letdown against the Central Division Bucks, suggesting the buildup to the Nets and Celtics games was simply hype anyway.

Well, maybe some hype might have helped. He could have pushed the idea that his former assistant and now Bucks staffer Jim Todd was selling state secrets. For his part, Todd, who was responsible for the Bucks’ game plan last night, did say “he had a pretty good handle on what the Raptors do.”

Something worked. With Bucks head coach Larry Krystkowiak at a hospital with his wife, Jan, who gave birth to twin girls midway through the second quarter, Todd helped interim head coach Tony Brown, another former Raptors assistant, look like John Wooden.