So the Raptors go back to the palace where they came back from 24 points down to win on December 11Th,2010 so how do the Raptors begin the game by allowing the Pistons to shoot a whisker under 61% from the floor led by Richard Hamilton with 10 points and they are getting a lot of dunks on back door plays as the Pistons led going into the second quarter 38-23. With Jose Calderon had 8 points and DeMar DeRozan had 6 points for the Raptors but the real killer is that the pistons hit 10 of their last 14 shoots from the floor. So in the second quarter Bayless went to the basket and lost his footing and was called for a travel and he and Triano start yelling and screaming about the call and I'm like you would think these guys thought they were the Chicago Bulls (48-18) than the Raptors (18-48) as they felt they deserve every call even when they do not play defense as they were down by 20 (51-31) in the quarter. Near the end of the quarter the Raptors put together some one and one's (defensive stops followed by an offensive basket) and the Pistons lead at half with a 63-52 lead and it was led by Tayshaun Prince with 6 points while the Raptors were led by Barbosa (still have not seen him pass) with 10 points and Reggie Evans with 6 points.
The Second half
The third quarter the Raptors tried to fight back and got it down to 6 points but the pistons fought back and kept 11 point lead @ 87-76 and they were led by Greg Monroe and Richard Hamilton both had 8 points and Tayshaun Prince had 6 points. While Andrea Bargnani woke up late in the second quarter and continued it into the third quarter with 9 points which was the same for James Johnson who could had more but the baby Raptors got another call against them and he had a soar face and Traino was yelling at the refs. O' that's right the Pistons were still shooting 60% can anybody teach these guys to work on keeping the basketball out of their basket and the gripping on the court and showing up the refs comes back to one guy whose name is Jay Triano and shows he has no control of the team (Pacers and Bobcats are fighting for 8th in the East and guess what they both changed their coach and got back in the race). The fourth quarter was a quarter that the Raptors got a couple of early spots but took bad shots on the other end and that was followed by the Pistons pulling away down the stretch and won the game 107-93 with Richard Hamilton with 24, prince 22 points, and Greg Monroe had 21 points (led with 10 boards) while Rodney Stuckey had 14 assists in the game. While the Raptors led Andrea Bargnani who had 20 points, Barbosa had 18 points with 3 assists, DeMar DeRozan had 16 points, Reggie Evans had 8 boards, and Jose Calderon had 6 assists (1 second half assist)
In the End .......
The Raptors have not taken the Pistons seriously all season with the 24 point comeback being the only win this season against the Pistons and under no circumstance should the Raptors take anybody lightly and to get mad at every call and feel that they deserve every call when they do not play hard at all is just disgusting. Lets see now the Pistons are they not the team that just had their players boycott a game basically because they did not like something and were these the Pistons that were a couple of games behind the Raptors and are now 5 1/2 games better than the Raptors who have now lost 14 straight road games.
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