Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse expresses his belief on his team ahead of their Eastern Conference Finals showdown against the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks.

The Raptors are coming off a second-round series against the Philadelphia 76ers that took seven games to decide. Meanwhile, the Bucks are well-rested ahead of the East finale after closing out the Boston Celtics in five games.

Nurse knows that the Bucks have the rest and homecourt advantage, but he warned not to count out his team who has been on the edge and has been playing some high-level basketball.

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“We'll find out when the ball goes up,” Nurse recently said, via Josh Lewenberg of TSN. “But there's certainly a theory or history that the team that's been on edge stays on edge. And we've certainly been on edge and had to play at a very very high level.”

The No. 1 seeded Bucks are obviously the best team that the Raptors will play thus far into the postseason. Prior to needing all seven games to defeat the always dangerous Sixers, the Raptors quickly downed the Orlando Magic to open the 2018-19 postseason. As for the Bucks, they swept the Detroit Pistons before toppling the Celtics.

The winner of this series will take on the winner of the Western Conference Finals matchup between the defending champion Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail Blazers.