The Warriors scored the first 7 points of the game and the Raptors then went on a 10-2 run to take the lead that it would take almost til the end of the third quarter as the Warriors went inside almost constantly as they shoot 60% in the second quarter after both teams shoot about 35% in the first quarter while the Raptors shoot less than 33% in the second quarter. Dave Lee was playing out of his mind in the the half going 6 of 7 from the floor and 4 of 4 from the line and had 16 points while Barbosa had 8 points and DeRozan had 11 points for the Raps in the half as the Warriors lead at half 47-38.
In the second half the Raptors shot over 40% and the Warriors shoot around 30% from the floor including shooting 23% in the third quarter while the Raps shot 42% but until DeRozan hit a floating jump shot @ 4:33 of the quarter the Raptors were still down by 8 as the Warriors lead 56-48 but then the Raptors realized that losing another to the Warriors would not be good and they outscored them to end the quarter on a 12-2 run to take a two point lead at 60-58. In the fourth quarter the Raps kept it going outscoring the Warriors 23-17 as the Raptors broke their personal 5 game losing streak to the Golden State Warriors with the final being 83-75.
The Raptors were able to dominate the boards 51-41 behind a hungry Ed Davis who back to cleaning the boards with 12 along with the Johnsons who had 25 boards with Amar having 13 and James 12 while the rest of the team had 14. The Raptors for once was to the line more than their opponents 24 to 19 and they actually shot the ball well from the line as they hit 21 of them for 87.5% and it was lead by DeRozan who was 6 of 6 from the line as he had 25 points while Jerryd was 5 of 6 from the line but was 0 for 6 from the floor with 4 boards and 4 assists. Barbosa had 17 points, Amar with 12 points, and James was 11 points to help DeRozan cut down the Warriors as the Raps also had 11 assists in the second half compared to 8 in the first half.
David Lee ended up by basically by the Warriors team as he had 22 of their 75 points and 12 of their 41 boards Monty Ellis was the only Warrior in double digits with 12 points and had 7 of the Warriors 17 assists.
It was simply another game that they were not ready to get dirty and then they decided they wanted to put an effort out there and they won the game
Tom Mehegan
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