James Johnson scored the first 6 points of the game and 9 in his 9:35 in the first quarter and had a board and then sits for almost 11 game minutes while Barbosa took a lot of shoots with 13 second quarter points and was looking for his shoot every time the ball was in his hands and it diffidently did not hurt as he was making way more than he missed. Also Reggie Evans attacked the boards hard with 7 second quarter boards and 8 first half boards that helped the Raptors have extra offensive possessions and helped the Raptors take a 62-48 lead into half time while Ed Davis had 4 first quarter boards and 6 first half boards which helped the defense as well. In the Third Darren Collins scored 9 points while Tyler Hansbrough had 6 points, and Danny Granger 4 points to cut the 14 point half time lead to 7 @ 74-67 with 4:13 left in the quarter where the Raptors found some resolve and fought back by stretching the lead back to 10 points by the end of the quarter with 5 boards and the return of Barbosa who shoot it up again and scored more often than not with 4 points and he did pass at times and did find the open Raptor which is positive and should do more of it. With a 83-73 lead going into the fourth quarter the Raptors tried to match the Pacers score for score and did a good job of this and took the game home 108-98 with Weems (7 points) and Barbosa (7 points) to ease the pressure and keep it near the 10 point lead going into the quarter and the Pacers only got as close as 6 points as the Raptors were able to get the defensive stops they were lacking in Wednesday's game against the Jazz.
The Raptors were lead to their 18th win of the season by Barbosa with 29 points (12 for 21 from the floor) with 3 boards and 2 assists in 26 minutes along with Reggie Evans who had 16 boards in 26 minutes and Ed Davis with 13 boards (12 points) and they combined for 29 of the Raptors 46 boards in the game. DeRozan had 16 points (7 for 13 from the floor) but the sore thumb for the Raptors was Andrea Bargnani who was 1 for 13 from the floor even though he went to the line 8 times and made 6 of his 8 points from there but only had 5 boards in 31 minutes while James Johnson filled up the sheet with his 13 points, 4 boards, 3 assists, 2 blocks, and a steal in his 25 minutes on the court.
The Pacers were lead by Tyler Hansbrough (20) and Danny Granger (25) who had 45 of the Pacers 98 points in the game while they both 7 boards and 2 steals as well while Darren Collison was a distance third with 13 points and 7 assists which was an assist less than Jose Calderon's 13 points and 8 assists in the game and this game really hurts the Pacers who are hanging on to the final playoff stop by the tips of their finger nails.
Reggie, Reggie
Tom Mehegan
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