The Raps played bowling-shoe ugly basketball for 33 minutes as with 3:02 left in the third quarter the Wizards went up 18 points @ 79-61 and then Dwayne Casey finally got he was screaming for which was tough D and turning the D into points at the other end of the court as the Raptors went on a 11-3 run in the last 3 minutes of the quarter to cut the lead to 10. Which was lead by 3 of the Raptors 13 threes in game by Kleiza (20 points after three quarters), Anthony Carter, and James Johnson. Then with just less than 6 minutes left in the game the Raptors were still down 10 points @ 94-84 and then the Raptors went on a 21-11 run to end regulation and were lead by Jerryd Bayless as he hit 3 of his 6 threes in the last 5:06 of regulation and had 11 points in this time and Kleiza had 6 points in the last 6 minutes.
The Raptors did not have anything left in overtime as they were 0 for 9 in overtime because the only producers on offense were Bayless (6 of 10 from three) and Kleiza (11 of 16 from the floor) who ended up with 30 points each but it all came down to Trevor Booker second free throw and the Wizards up 110-108 with 6.7 seconds left and he missed it and Jamaal Magloire had his hands on the ball and it slipped through his fingers. The Raptors had a finally chance to send the game into double overtime and Jose Calderon who was 1 of 5 in the game but missed a buzzer beater three that ended up being an air ball and the Wizards won 111-108 and has gotten 2 of their 5 victories against the Raps. The Wizards got 31 points from John Wall (18 in the second half), 29 points from Nick Young (17 in the first half), and 19 from Trevor Booker and the Wizards put up 57 points in the first half.
The Raptors went to the line 34 times lead by Derozan (7 of his 15 points from the line) and Kleiza (4 of 8 from the line) with 8 attempts along with Bayless with 6 and he was perfect from the line.
This maybe another lesson for Raps as they took the Wizards lightly and it cost them a victory
Tom Mehegan
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