Toronto Starters
F - Amir Johnson F - Sonny Weems C - Andrea Bargnani
PG - Jose Calderon SG - DeMar DeRozan
Indiana Starters
F - Danny Granger F - Josh McRoberts C - Roy Hibbert
G - Darren Collison G - Mike Dunleavy
First Quarter
The Pacers 20-5 with a 30 seconds left and had 6 turnover so that they are down 31-18 after 1 quarter. Danny Granger had 10 points and 4 boards and Brandon Rush has 7 points off the bench while Josh McRoberts had 3 boards and 3 assists and the Raptors Jose Calderon had 7 points and Amir Johnson have 4 boards and 4 points. The Raptors has 1 assist and are being torched 3 for 6 with 3's and getting out rebounded 16-11 and the Raps need to find their defense and cut into the lead by half and take over the game in the second half.
Second Quarter
The Pacers were 6-9 with 3's and shoot 61% from the floor and the 13 point disadvantage after 1 was doubled until the last and the Raptors are down 24 68 - 44. The Pacers are lead by Bandon Rush with 9 and Danny Granger had 7 points and he had 3 boards along with Mike Dunleavy had 7 points while Josh McRoberts had 3 boards and 2 assists. Leandro Barbosa has 10 points and 2 boards and an assists and Amir had 7 points and 3 boards while Calderon had 5 points. The Raptors have been out assisted by 19-5 and out rebounded 26-19 and if the Raptors want to make a game of it they need to pass the ball, take good shoots, active hands defense, and rebound, rebound, rebound.
Third Quarter
The Pacers only scored 11 points in the first 9 minutes of the quarter but one problem the Raptors were 0 for 5 from the floor to start the quarter and with 3 minutes left the Raptors only had 20 points and were down 15 79-64 and then the Pacers outscored the Raptors 10-2 to end the quarter and were behind 89-67. The Pacers were lead by everybody as nobody had more than 4 points and Mike Dunleavy has 4 boards and have out assisted 24-19 and the Raptors are lead by Sonny Weems had 6 points and it was the only points from the SG or SF and Ed Davis had 4 boards while Bargnani heads into the fourth quarter with only 5 points and 3 boards which can not happen.
Fourth Quarter
It was 12 minutes of garbage time as the Pacers were up 22 after 3 and the Pacers won the game 124-98 and it was a lot of bench players for each team were on the floor for the fourth quarter. For the Raptors Bargnani had 7 of his 12 points in the quarter while Kleiza played the whole quarter and had all of his 12 points in this quarter and Jose Calderon and DeMar DeRozan had 5 points while Kleiza, Dorsey, and Barbosa all came off the bench to all have 3 boards. The Pacers were lead by Darren Collison had 8 points and Brandon Rush had 7 points in the quarter Danny Granger and Roy Hibbert had 2 assists each.
Final Thoughts
The Pacers had more assists 33-16 than the Raptors and the way the Raptors had been winning games before the last 2 days is by passing and sharing the ball and it looks like they have forgotten that lesson as they had only 9 assists in the first three quarters of this game. A big problem in the last 2 games is that the oppenents have been shooting big 3-ball numbers as the Pacers went 13 for 26 and the Knicks went 12 for 27 and also Jose Calderon has not been passing the ball as he only had 4 assists and was 9 for 16 from the feild with 26 points which is the opposite of what he was doing before and he needs to pass before shoot again. Andrea Bargnani showed up for the fourth quarter and he needs to be the guy all game so he needs to get better touches and be in better scoring position and if the Raps can get back to the game plan that helped them win 6 of 8 games they should continue to challenge for a playoff spot but it is still early.
Better luck on Wednesday
Tom Mehegan
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