The Crowd was loud but the team themselves struggled throughout the first half of the game with the Pacers leading 38-34 at half with the Pacers shooting under 40% in the first half while the Raptors shoot 40% from the floor and the Pacers' Paul George had 13 points in the first half with 8 points in the second quarter and the Raptors' Andrea Bargnani had 13 points with 9 of them in the second quarter.
In the second half of the game the Pacers and the Raptors both scored over 50 points in the half with the Pacers outscored Raptors 52-51 and won the game 90-85 which came down to the Raptors being down by 11 points with 6 minutes to go in the game and then the Raptors started to chip away at the lead with them getting it down to 5 points with 3 minutes left and the Raptors got it down to two points with a three point play. Then the Pacers got lucky with their offense as George lost the ball and it went right to Danny Granger who hit a three pointer to give the Pacers a 86-81 lead and with the Pacers up 3 points with 30.9 seconds the Raptors decided to play straight up defense and David West made a tough shot to finish the Raptors who are now 1 and 1.
The Raptors were lead by DeMar DeRozan who had 22 points with 16 of the Raptors 30 fourth quarter points and Andrea Bargnani had 21 points with 13 in the first half and Amir Johnson had 10 boards. The Pacers were lead by Danny Granger had 21 points and Paul George had 18 points and both Roy Hibbert (12 points and 10 boards) and Darren Collison (10 points and 12 boards) both had double-double.
The Pacers made 19 (of 22) free throws which was almost three time more than the Raptors 7 (of 13) free throws while the Raptors had three more turnovers (19-16) with 7 turnovers in the first quarter and 6 in the third quarter which is why the Raptors lost the game because the Raptors shot 45.6% and held the Pacers to 39.5% while the had 21 assists on the 36 made shoots from the floor.
Raps are 1 and 1
Tom Mehegan
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