For the first time in 9 games the Raps did not lose the first quarter as they tied the Nets after one quarter @ 24 and took a 5 point lead into half 44-39 and took control of the game in the third quarter by taking down the Nets 26-14 in the quarter and won the game handily 94-73 as the Raps won 3 of the 5 in their 5 game road trip and it is the first win by the Raps without Andrea Bargnani and are now 1 and 7 without him.
It was the DeRozan show as he really took advantage of Dwayne Casey's choice to put Jerryd Bayless in the starting lineup instead of a guy like Kleiza or Davis and DeRozan was in as the wing forward and went 8 of 12 from the floor and got to the line 16 times and made 11 for 27 points in 41 minutes. The rest of the team did not play than 34 and a half minutes as Bayless and Calderon played exactly the same minutes and Calderon had 10 points, 9 assists, and 5 boards while Bayless had 17 points, 6 boards, and 3 assists. Then nobody else had more than 27 and a half minutes with Kleiza (15 points and 3 boards) and Ed Davis (6 points and 9 boards) were the strongest of the bench.
The Nets struggled 36.5% from the floor and only two players scored who were Deron Williams had 24 points and 6 assists and 4 boards and Anthony Morrow had 14 points for half the Nets points with 37 of the 73 points of the game. The Nets had two players Kris Humphries (8) and Shelden Williams (9) getting the boards as they had 17 of the Nets 39 boards.
Great road trip Raps
Tom Mehegan
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