raptors game 3

Toronto Raptors Starting lineup
F - Linas Kleiza F - Reggie Evans C - Andrea Bargnani
PG - Jarrett Jack SG - DeMar Derozan

Sacramento Kings

F - Omri Casspi F - Carl Landry C - DeMarcus Cousins
SG - Tyreke Evans PG - Beno Udrih

First Quarter

Raptors Lead 33-16 over Kings after the first quarter and Reggie Evans is

keeping up his strong start to the season with 10 rebounds and 6 points

along with an assist. Andrea Bargnani has 10 points and so does DeMar

Derozan and the Raptors 12-13 from the free throw line and the Raptors

came out fast scored and kepted the Kings off the scoreboard.

Second Quarter

Raptor still lead 62-51 at half but the Kings faught a little to bit off a

little of the lead while Andrea Bargnani had 7 points in the quarter to

give him 17 (5 of 7 from the floor)in the half and DeMar Derozan has 5 in

the quarter to give him 15 points (4 for 6 from the floor) at half. The

Raptors shot 58% from the floor and lead in fast break points 21-6 at half

while Tyreke Evans is the reason the Kings are somewhat in the game with

16 points (7 for 12 from the floor).

Third Quarter

Raptors lead after three quarters 86-78 and the Raptors were 3 for 13 in

the last 6 minutes of the quarter but an important 3-ball by Jose Calderon

helped stop the bleeding going into the fourth quarter. Linas Kleiza

scored 11 points in the quarter and Reggie Evans had 5 rebounds in the

quarter to give him 17 going into the fourth.

Fourth Quarter

Kings outscored 11-3 to start the quarter and they kept coming and ended

up takening a 8-point lead in the late stages of the quarter but the

Raptors came back and had a chance to tie it on the last shoot but could

not send it to overtime and the Raptors lose 111-108.

Final thoughts

The Raptors started on fire but the Kings cooled them down as the game

went on and the Raptors got a little nervous when the Kings went on big

runs and Jay Triano could have used his timeouts and settled the team

down. In the end the Raptors are still very young and winning in

Sacramento is really tough for the Raptors because they have only won

twice in francise history in Sacramento especially with Tyreke Evans going

off in the last 3 quarters for 21 points and his supporting cast chipped

in when needed. While the Raptors got solid games from Andrea Bargnani

with 28 points but could have helped with more boards (only 2) and DeMar

Derozan with a career tying 24 points and Reggie Evans had an amazing 19

rebounds but needs some help but it still earily and they will pick up

road wins along the way.