Dewayne Casey was not impressed with the Raptors" D "

Dewayne Casey in the halftime interview with TSN was not impressed with the Raptors effort on "D" fence in the first half as he said that "they needed to come out ready to play" and that "they needed Defense toughness". This was after the Raptors were down 10-0 to start the game and allowed a staggering 61 points in the first half to the Orlando Magic and shooting of 53.5% including almost 50% from beyond the arc (9 of 19). In the third quarter he did not see what he wanted to see as the Magic came out in the beginning of the second half and quickly had the lead up to 20 and by the end of the third quarter the Raptors had given up 93 points for a team that usually gives up an average of just less than 95 points in a full game and the Magic went 4 of 7 from beyond the arc and shot over 57% in the quarter from the floor and were shooting over 55% in the game after three quarters. The Magic after fourth quarter garbage time were still shooting 54.3% from the floor and ended the game 15 of 34 from beyond the arc in a 117-101 wipe washing of the Raptors where Ryan Anderson took 13 of his 15 shots from beyond the arc and 8 of 9 baskets from there too and ended up with 28 points and 6 boards in 35 minutes while Dwight Howard and a strange game as he shot better from the line (7 of 10) than from the floor (8 of 14) and sit came down with 10 boards in 36 and a half minutes to go with his 23 points. Jameer Nelson added 18 points and 7 assists which was on behind team leader Hedo Turkoglu with 8 assists and the Magic had 36 boards and 18 assists which was one better than the Raptors in each aspects of the game.

The Raptors were lead by Gary Forbes with 21 points and Kleiza with 18 points and Jose Calderon had 11 assists but it was Jamaal Magloire who was the most impressive in just less than 11 minutes he lead the team with 7 boards and was an amazing plus 28 on the court which means that the Raptors were outscored by 44 points when he was not on the court. Jerryd Bayless had 6 points, 4 assists, and 2 boards in his return to action and because it was a lose cause in the second half he only played 11 and a half minutes.

It was a bad game after some great efforts in the past few weeks

Tom Mehegan