The New Jersey Nets swept the Raptors in London England as they won 137-136 in triple overtime as Brook Lopez lead the Nets with 34 points to go with 14 boards and 8 block shots and when he fouled out early in the second overtime when Andrea took a charge it looked like they had a chance to win the game. They ended up having to get a big stop and win the game in all the overtime period and they tied it up with a Sasha Vujacic in the first overtime and Bargnani missed a 22 footer that could of wom them the game and DeMar was not happy about the shoot selection. In the second overtime in a broken play Deron Williams hits a 13 foot jumper to tie it up but then DeMar had a chance to win it but misses a 22 foot jumper and then in the third overtime the Nets scored the first 7 points and the Raptors then outscored the Nets 7-2 to make it 135-133 and then Barbosa hit a 3 ball to take a 136-135 and then Travis Outlaw knocked down 2 free throws to take a 137-136 and then Andrea missed another 22 foot jumper. This means that the Raptors had chances to win the game on both on defense and offense and could not get the key defensive stop or on offense just having stall offensive possession where they tried to go for one on one and settled for a jumper. The Raptors had some defensive stops early in the fourth quarter and built up a 6 point lead but the Nets came back and forced overtime while taken a 2 point lead until DeMar made a lay up to send it to overtime. The Nets lead at half by a 65-62 score so that both teams tightened up their defense and once again the Raptors just could not close the deal and win the game.
The Nets were after Lopez where lead by Sasha Vujacic who made some key shots in the overtime while Deron Williams lead with 18 assists to go with 21 points and Kris Humphries had another 17 boards to go with 20 points too. The Leafs were lead by Andrea Bargnani who had 35 points to go with 12 boards for his second double-double of the season while DeMar DeRozan had 30 points with 5 assists and boards and Ed Davis was quite noisy in regulation with 15 boards to go with 12 points to have his own double-double in the game. Barbosa came up with 22 points off the bench but did not share the ball well with only 2 assists in 29 minutes of playing time and James Johnson played 19 minutes and had 4 boards and 2 blocks and his defense could of been used for key defensive down the stretch of the 4 quarter and more of the 3 overtimes.
The Nets out boarded the Raptors 62 - 54 especially down the stretch of the fourth quarter and into the overtimes while they out assisted the Raptors 34 - 27 and the Raptors were very good from the line going to 32 of 36 and after going 13 for 22 to start the game the Nets finished 16-17 to finish the game.
The Raptors are happy to get out of England
Tom Mehegan
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