First Quarter
The Pistons scored 6 straight points to tak a 21-20 lead and then the Pistons took a 29-28 lead into the second quarter. Ed Davis had 3 boards to lead the team in the quarter and Andrea Bargnani (8 points and a rebound) and Jerryd Bayless (4 points, 2 boards, 2 assists) and the Raptors had 8 turnovers which lead to 14 piston's points but shoot 79% and the pistons shoot 48% in the quarter. Tayshaun Prince (8 point and 2 boards) and Rodney Stuckey (10 points 1 assist) for the Pistons lead the Pistons along with Ben Wallace (6 points, 5 boards, and 2 assists) was an all around baller in the first quarter.
Second Quarter
The Pistons scored 43 points and took a 72 (2 less than they gave up the night before) - 53 to take a 19 point lead into half and the Pistons were lead by Charlie Villanueva (12 points and a board) and Tracy McGrady (6 points and 3 boards) so former Raptors went off in the quarter and Rodney Stuckey (8 points) along with Tayshaun Prince (4 points, 5 boards, an assist) kept it rolling from the first quarter. The Raptors 7had 7 turnovers (3 offensive) that turned into 16 points while the Raptors offensively were lead by Jerryd Bayless (9 points and a board) while DeRozan and Barbosa both had 5 points and The Raptors had a horrible second quarter with the Pistons going on a 13-3 run early in the quarter and then another 17-4 run late. The Raptors had turnovers that lead to 13 points and the Pistons bench out scored the Raptors 33-12 in the first half.
Third Quarter
The Pistons went on a 13-3 run run to open a 25 point lead, 89-64 with 5:54 left in the third quarter and the Raptors finished the quarter on a 7-1 run and after the Pistons took the 25 point lead the Raps played shut down defense and had only 3 turnovers for 6 points in the quarter.
Fourth Quarter
Leandro Barbosa came in and was the point guard that the Raps were missing as Jose Calderon did not make the trip to Detroit as the Raptors out scored the Pistons 19-7 in the first 6:30 of the fourth quarter and 26-8 since late in the third quarter and the Pistons had 6 turnovers to help the Raps. Then when they went down 110-104 and then the Raptors made the next 3 shoots (all 3-balls) to take a 113-110 and with the game tied 110-110 Bargnani hit a 3-ball to give the Raps their first lead since the first quarter 20-19 and out scored the pistons 10-6 down to the buzzer to win 120-116 and the 25 point comeback is the biggest in francise history and the Pistons had 44 points in the second half.
Final Thoughts
The Raptors were lucky that it was the Pistons as they tried to be too fancy especially in the fourth quarter when they could have slowed the game down and squeezed the life out of the Raptors and win the game. The Raps gave up 43 points in the second quarter and then 44 in the second half and out scored the Pistons in the last 18 minutes of the game 56-27 and Jerryd Bayless (31 points, 7 assists, and 5 boards) tied a career high in points but Barbosa was able to control the offense better (22 points, 7 assists, and 3 boards) as he had half the turnovers (2 compared to 4) of Bayless. Bargnani going 4 for 6 from 3 helped his #'s (22 points,5 boards, and 3 assists) and the Raps got a team effort on the glass with 4 players with 5 rebounds (Bayless, Amir Johnson, Bargnani, and Ed Davis) and everybody except for Sonny Weems (0) had atleast 2 boards in the game and Julian Wright had 4 of the Raps 9 steals in the game to help give the Raps more offensive possessions. Finally the Raptors can not play like this again and need to come out with a 48 minute effort aganist the Bobcats and lets hope Calderon will be over his cold by the game.
Sorry it took so long
Tom Mehegan
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