In addition to Talkhoops and Cowbell Kingdom (The TrueHoop Network’s Kings blog), Zach Harper is now writing every Thursday over at RaptorsRepublic (The TrueHoop Network’s Raptors blog).  Yesterday, Zach did a great job of breaking down the Raptors’ comeback against the Hawks.  Here is a tiny sample:

The recipe of a comeback has to have a couple of essential parts in no particular order. You usually need:

- A little bit of luck

- Multiple defensive stops

- Some offensive execution

- A fortunate occurrence

- Some late-game heroics

Go back in the history of every comeback in the NBA and you’ll see this same recipe. Actually, don’t go back and check on that. It doesn’t always happen. But it does happen often and it certainly happened for the Raptors on Wednesday night. Let’s check out what happened.

The first part of the comeback happened with about 1:15 left in the game with the Hawks up 105-101. Here’s how the recipe played out from here:

There is a lot of great stuff here, so yeah, definitely check it out.