Baseball legend Joe Carter, who hit the game-winning home run to clinch the World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1993, had some solid sports advice for the Raptors ahead of the NBA Finals’ Game 5 – “stay in the moment.â€
“It’s not over,†Carter told Â鶹´«Ã½ Channel Monday. “They have to play this game like it’s game seven.â€
Carter also said part of the Raptors’ success hinges on their ability to play as a team, saying it’s not solely down to individual “superstar†players like Kawhi Leonard.
Carter said the trick to dealing with the pressure of a high-stakes game is to “put it [the pressure] on the other team,†citing that mindset as the reason he was able to hit his home run.