First Quarter

The Raptors look like they liked the Fla sun too much as they have been out rebounded 16-5 lead the Wizards JaVale McGee with 7 boards in the first quarter and Blatche had 8 points, Arenas has 5, Hinrirch and Thornton along with Nick Young all have 4 points. While Sonny lead the Raptors with 11 of the raptors 23 points in the game and if the Raptors get boards along with strong active hands defense they come back from the 4 point deficit 27-23 after 1 quarter.

Second Quarter

The Wiazards have 12 more boards in the quarter and 28 boards in the half and the main reason that the Raptors are down 7 54-47 at half time and Nick Young had 10 points in the quarter and Blatche has 5 points and Hinrich has 6 of the Wizards 13 assists in the game. Jack has 8 points in the quarter while Evans is the rebound leader with 4 so the Raptors need to still be more active on the boards and on the defense to get back into the game to have a chance to win the game.

Third Quarter

Gilbert Arenas has gone off in the quarter to help the Wizards have biggest lead of the game with 22 and with 3 minutes left the Raptors need to cut the lead by having good effort on offense with better shot selection and active hands defense in the last 15 minutes of the game.The Raptors outscored 36-21 in this quarter and head coach Jay Triano was so hot coming out of half time that he said that the team played like horse shit in the first half. Gilbert Arenas scored 10 points to lead the Wizards and Kirk Hinrich had 7 points and 5 assists in the quarter. Bargnani has 0 rebounds in the game so far but he had 9 poiints (2 in the first half) while Reggie Evans had 5 rebound (4 in the first half) and Amir Johnson had 3 rebounds (2 in the first half) but the story is 4 assists in this quarter and 14 in the first three quarters.

Fourth Quarter

The Raptors outscored the Wizards 26-19 in the quarter lead by Linas Kleiza who had 6 of his 15 points in the quarter and out rebound the Wizards 12-8 in the quarter too and basically the Wizard had a lot of players get 2 or 4 points in the quarter.

Final Thought

The Raptors looked like they had not played since Staurday and that they enjoyed the sun and the Miami nightlife a little to much and were not ready for the game and it sounded like Triano let them have it at half time and then lad an egg in the third quarter (-15 point difference) and it hurt because the other 3 quarters were tied 73-73. To also let the worest rebounding team (averages 38 a game) without their best Rebounder John Wall to take down 47 rebounds and a +11 on the boards and finally have Bargnani having no rebounds in 3 quarter. Then to have Jerrett Jack lead the team with 5 assists and that is 1 more than Reggie Evans who had 4 while the rest of the team had only 10 to give the Raptors only 19 assists in the game and Kirk Hinrich himself had 12 meaning that the Raptors need to share the ball a lot more in Philadelphia tommorrow night and the other 70 more games after tommorrow night.

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