TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors took care of business at home, evening their Eastern Conference finals series with the heavily favored Cleveland Cavaliers at 2-2 on Monday night and surprising a lot of people in the process.

But now they’re headed back to Cleveland, the place where they lost Games 1 and 2 by a combined 50 points, and they know they need to be better if they’re going to pull off a road upset in Game 5 on Wednesday night.

"Does it give us some confidence winning two games at home? Yes," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said during a conference call Tuesday. "But I will say this: It’s going to be a different animal back in Cleveland, as it is in every series. When you go into another team’s home territory, it’s a little bit tougher. But it does give us more rhythm and more confidence going against them, now that we have a little bit better feel of what we can and cannot do against this team."

According to ESPN Stats & Information, in a best-of-seven series tied at 2, the Game 5 winner goes on to win the series 82 percent of the time. The Cavaliers took control in Game 1 with a 15-0 run bridging the end of the first and the beginning of the second quarters, and then pulled away with a 16-2 spurt at the end of the first half in Game 2.

"Hopefully we have it figured out -- the rotation and the personnel on the court -- to cut down on those runs," Casey said.

Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan are coming off a Game 4 in which they combined for 67 points, the most points they have ever scored together in a playoff game. DeRozan in particular has been extremely consistent since scoring just nine points in Game 4 against Miami in the previous round. Since then, with the help of Alex McKechnie's shoelace treatment on his injured right thumb, DeRozan has been averaging 27 points on 48.1 percent shooting from the field and 90.9 percent from the free throw line.

"He’s just playing with a great rhythm right now and knocking down those shots," Casey said of DeRozan. "It’s good to see. He’s one of those guys that, once he sees one go in, he kind of gets into that rhythm. He’s in a pretty good rhythm right now. We want to make sure we maintain that. We need to make sure we continue our spacing, continue our ball movement and make sure we continue to screen for him to get him a lot of those open looks."

Bismack Biyombo has averaged 8.9 points, 12.1 rebounds and 2.4 blocks since taking over for Jonas Valanciunas (sprained right ankle) in the starting lineup. Casey hopes he'll be able to use Valanciunas, who has said he’s comfortable being a "helper" off the bench, in Game 5.

"Hopefully we can get him involved, but it depends on the lineup they have on the court," Casey said of his 7-footer. "I know he’s our starting center, but it’s tough to put him out there if they’re playing Channing Frye big minutes at the 5. We just have to make sure that he has a matchup, and he’s not out there chasing 3-point shooters all over the perimeter.

"But if he does get called, we’ve got to be able to make them pay and have him in the paint, posting up and getting touches down there. And also, too, he’s going to be valuable for us because he is an excellent passer and can make plays at the top of the key."

LeBron James has been mostly dominant as always during this series, averaging 25 points on 64.4 percent shooting. But the Cavaliers are shooting just 33 percent from 3-point range, and Toronto was somehow able to hold Cleveland to 1-for-10 shooting from the field to close out Game 4 after the Cavs hit their first 11 shots of the fourth quarter. The hope for the Raptors is that Lowry and DeRozan carry over their play at home to the road and the Cavaliers continue to misfire from beyond the arc.

It’s a lot to ask for, but the Raptors plan to give it all they’ve got.

"We’ve been playing with our backs against the wall," DeRozan said Monday. "We never cared what anybody else thought. It was a challenge for us every single day. We’ve been counted out, and we like that challenge."