The Raptors come out played hard and held the Hornets to only 20 points and took a 7 point lead into the second quarter where the Hornets outscored the Raptors 11-4 to tie it @ 31 which was one of many bend but not break moments of the game as the Raptors outscored the hornets 26-11 to take a 57-42 lead into the second half. The Raptors kept the Hornets to 20 points in the third quarter but still lost the quarter 20-15 and took a 72-62 lead into the fourth quarter where things got very interesting as the Hornets went on another 11-4 run to cut the lead to 3 @ 76-73 but then went up and down for the majority of the rest of quarter as the Hornets got to 2 @ 84-82 but finally got the key boards to stretch the lead as they won 96-90. The only bad thing that happened is that James Johnson found the pine at different times like in the second and fourth quarter even though he put up 9 points in the low Raptors quarter of 15 points in the third and I know he had turnover trouble in the game but to see him being sat like Julian Wright or Joey Dorsey is a scary thought because I know I do not want him to see the same fate as the others. Jose Calderon turned a little bit into a shotting guard with 7 for 10 from the floor (3 of 4 from 3) for 22 points and yes he still was the point guard as he also got 16 assists in the game and got 7 boards too while Amir Johnson struggled badly from the floor with a 3 of 10 for 8 points but did no great in other ways with 10 boards and more impressively got 7 of the 11 raptors block shots while DeMar had 17 points (8 for 17 from the floor) and Bargnani had 14 points (with a struggling 6 for 16 from the floor). Ed Davis did have 8 boards in the game to go along with his 6 points while James Johnson had 5 boards, 3 assists, 2 blocks, and 13 points. The Raptors out assisted the Hornets 29-17 while the Hornets out rebounded 36-30 lead by David West with 10 boards and he also lead with 19 points while Carl Landry (4 boards and an assist) and former Raptor Jarrett Jack (2 boards and 2 assists) both had 17 points. It looks like the Raptors players are hating the London England idea as Jay came out and said that the team needs to be embracing the trip as it is an experience and then Amir Johnson sounded disinterested in going basically because he has never been there before and not know what to expect from the trip which os like what the players quietly say about being in a new country (i.e. Canada)
Lets see how the last quarter of the season goes down
Tom Mehegan
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