The Raptors played without Andrei Bargnani this game and the Mavs had a chip on their shoulder after the Raptors went into Dallas and beat them playing with only bench players while it is surprising to see Peja in Dallas's starting lineup (not really) and Ed Davis was in the starting lineup and did not give as much effort as he usually has in his rookie season.
Big Dirk comes out and gets the first basket of the game and then the Raptors went on an unbelievable run of 22-1 to take a 22-3 lead and Amir Johnson had 10 points and Calderon had 6 points while the Mavs missed 12 straight shots and James Johnson stayed on the court in the quarter and was very good on the defensive end and was 1 for 5 from the floor but no big deal. The Mavs finally got their wake-up call and closed the lead by the end of the quarter to 30-24 and got the first 4 points of the second quarter to get it to 30-28 which was a 25-8 lead by the bench who had 27 points in the half while the Big Dirk had 16 of the Mavs 26 second quarter points while having 7 boards in the half and is the only start scoring as the other starts have 5 points including are good friend Peja Stojakovic. Jose Calderon on his way to a triple double with 6 boards and 5 assists along with 11 points while Amir Johnson leads with 12 points while also having 4 boards and James Johnson has 5 assists and 5 boards with 6 points as the Raptors got 17 assists on their first 23 baskets in the first half with 26 boards while Mavs got 11 assists and 21 boards in the first half and Mark Cuban could not believe what he saw in the first half. The Raptors played no defense as the Mavs peeked in the quarter at 74-65 as they started the quarter on a 24-8 run and then the Raptors decided to fight a little as they scored 7 of the last 8 points to close out the quarter to make it 75-72 and the Mavs had 30 field goals in the first three quarters. The Mavs had 15 field goals in the fourth quarter and scored 39 points in the quarter and had a 23 point lead in the quarter which means that the Mavs out scored the Raptors by 20 points and ended up winning going away as they won 114-96 as the Mavs got 13 points in the second half while the Mavs bench got 37 points in the second half as the Mavs other starters went really cold tonight as they went 7 for 24 from the floor. The Raptors really let the refs get to them as of course Dirk got the star calls and especially DeMar DeRozan just needs to check his ego at the door because he is still upset about the slam dunk contest along with not getting the calls since the all-star game. He needs to stop yapping at the refs because unlike most times when a player gets a friendly whistle when talking to the refs as the refs are keying on DeMar DeRozan and is not only not getting the call he is also getting whistled for more fouls and he still had 19 points in the game and went 5 for 5 from the line in the game. While Calderon lead the team with 8 boards while the Johnsons had 7 each and Amir Johnson lead with 20 points until he fouled out and Jose Calderon had 15 points. The Raptors had 13 boards in the second half and 11 assists on their 18 second field goal while the Mavs had 19 boards and 17 assists in the second half and it looked like the Raptors were the team playing back to back instead of the Mavs as they fell apart on both ends of the court as they gave up 39 points and 8 points in the first half of the final quarter and can not get anywhere with no fourth quarter defensive effort while their was a huge drop off late in the first quarter and did not get really back to it the rest of the game.
One more game until they go overseas
Tom Mehegan
No comments:
Post a Comment