First Quarter

The Raptors have been passing the ball around (9 assists) and been getting rebounds (10) but are still down 1, 24-23 and are lead by DeMar DeRozan (6 points, 3 assists, and 3 boards) and Linas Kleiza (8 points, 4 boards, an assist) while Jose Calderon (5 assists / 2 turnovers) is helping a lot. Detroit Pistons are lead by Rodney Stuckey (11 points, a board, and an assist) and Charlie Villanueva (6 points, 3 boards, and an assist) while Ben Gorden (4 boards) so the Raptors need to continue to pass the ball and get easy shots while toughing up on defense.

Second Quarter

Just like most game the Raptors had a very bad second quarter with 10 turnovers and 16 points off this turnovers in the quarter helped the Pistons outscored 38-21 and the turnovers started with Jose Calderon with 3 turnovers and 4 assists which means he was trying too hard. Former Raptor Tracy McGrady (15 points, 4 assists, 3 steals, 2 boards) distroyed the Raps in the quarter along with Richard Hamilton (11 points, 2 assists, and 2 steals) both coming off the bench while Charlie Villanueva (6 points, a steal, snd an assist). The Raptors were lead by Andrea Bargnani ( 7 points and 2 boards) and Barbosa (5 points, a board, and an assist.

Third Quarter

The Raptors gave up 7 more turnovers and the Pistons got 10 points off them and the Pistons were lead by Rodney Stucky (8 points, 2 steals, a board, and an assist) and Charlie Villanueva (6 points and a board) and the rest had 9 points. The Raptors on the other hand were lead by Kleiza (7 points and 2 boards) and Barbosa (6 points) and 3 Raptor assist aganist those 7 turnovers in the quarter and the Pistons had more rebounds (9-6).

Fourth Quarter

The Raptors only 4 turnovers compared to 10 and 7 in the second and third quarter respectiable but the Pistons outscored the Raptors 30-25 in the final quarter lead by Richard Hamilton (19 points and a board) who send a huge message to everybody in the league which was I can still play this game. Julian Wright (6 points, 2 assists, and 4 boards)got play and Barbosa (10 points, 3 assists but 2 turnovers) got a big run with Sonny Weems out for the game but both off the bench which means the starters did not have as good a game.

Final Thoughts

The Raptors had 23 turnovers and 16 turnovers in the middle of the part of the game Jose Calderon had 8 turnovers in the game while having 13 assists and this is because he was trying for much tougher passes than usual maybe this is because Bayless was not playing and he felt he needed to do even more and should not be going for the difficult assists. Kleiza was the best of the starters (19 points, 5 boards, 2 assists, and a steal) while Barbosa (21 points, 4 assists, and a board) was the best off the bench while Julian Wright in 17 minutes lead the Raptors in rebounds with 6 and Andrea Bargnani went to the line the most for the Raptors (4 for 7) and also took the most shots (6 for 17). The Raptors still need to find the passion to play defense because defense is how you win games as the less your opponents score means the better chance of winning the game and if you play defense you can get your offense working off defense stops (steals and defensive rebounds) and turnovers while getting offensive boards continue the offensive possions. The Raptors need the holiday break to reset their game and get better going into the year 2011.

See u Sunday

Tom Mehegan