First Quarter
The Raptors started slowly not being able to find their shot and Celtics scored the first 5 points of the game and 22 of the first 31 points of the game to take a 22-9 lead with 4:45 left in the first quarter and the Raprtors got on a roll by finding their shoot and going to the basket ending the quarter on a 14-9 run. The Celtics were lead by Nate Robinson who scored 16 in the quarter and Ray Allen had 7 points while Shaq O'neal and Kevin Garnett both had 3 boards. The Raptors had even scoring with Bargnani (5), Weems and Calderon (4), Evans and DeRozan (3), and off the bench Johnson and Kleiza (2) while Weems had 3 boards and Evans had 2 boards as the Celtics out rebounded the Raptors 13-10.
Second Quarter
The Raptors were 12 of 16 from the free throw line in the quarter lead by Bargnani who was 6 of 8 in the quarter from the line and made up almost half of his 13 points in the quarter and Evan was a monster on the boards with 6 boards to go with his 4 points and Johnson off the bench had 5 boards and 7 points as well. While Weems has 6 and Calderon had 5 points and Barbosa off the bench as the back-up PG has 4 assists in 6 minutes to lead the team. For the Celtics Paul Pierce has 7 and Kevin Garnett had 6 points while off the bench Big Baby Davis had 5 and Marquis Daniels had 4 point and 7 Celtic players have a board in the quarter. As the Raptors outscored the Celtics 35-22 in the first 10:45 of the Second quarter to take a 58-53 which going back to the first quarter is a 49-31 run during 15:30 of game time on their way to a 61-58 half time lead.
Third Quarter
The Raptors continued their good play and Andrei Bargnani lead the charge with 7 points while Barbosa and Johnson both had 4 points and Johnson had 3 boards too but Reggie Evans was the board monster in this quarter with 6 and DeMar lead the team with 2 assists in the quarter. While the Celtics were lead by Marquis Daniels with 5 points while Glen Davis and Nate Robinson had 4 and on the boards Garnett and Allen both had 2 and the Raptors lead 82-75.
Fourth Quarter
The Celtics went on a 13-2 and with 4:45 it was tied at 94 and a 17-2 to take a 98-94 lead and the Roptors took 8-3 run to take a 103-102 lead with 2.7 seconds left and Paul Pierce took the last shot and it rimmed out for he Raptors 5 win of the season. The Raptors were able to handle not scoring in a 6 minute spand and Evans had 2 more boards in the quarter and Barbosa had 6 points while Bargnani and Johnson both had 4 points and Johnson had 2 boards as well while the Celtics were lead by Peirce with 7 and Allen had 6 and Allen had 3 rebounds.
Final Thought
The Raptors were in tough until they found their shot and then they took a 7 pointlead into the fourth where the Celtics woke up and made it tough for the Raptors down the stretch. To think this is the first win aganist the Celtics since the 2007-08 season with a small bench with the trade going down last night and not having Jack, Anderson, and or Banks in the game and the Raptors won it on the line and Bargnani had 29 points and Evan had 16 boards so it could be good going into Wednesday aganist the sixers with the new players in the lineup.
Tom Mehegan
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