Point guards ruled the game for the Raptors as they scored 48 points and 11 assists and 10 boards in an overtime win 114-110 win in overtime against the Memphis Grizzles in which overtime took over 30 minutes to play 5 overtime. This was the first win against the Grizzles in 7 games. Jarryd Bayless had a monster game with Calderon still injured and Barbosa now a Indiana Pacer as he went off for 28 points, 6 boards, and 9 assists before fouling out in overtime and Gary Forbes finished off the game with 20 points, 5 boards, and 2 assists. The Grizzles had three players with at least 20 points who were Rudy Gay who had 26 points and 11 boards who fouled out in overtime and he had only 3 before 3:17 left in regulation and had 5 before overtime while Zach Randolph had 25 points and 9 boards in only 24 and a half minutes in his first game back from injury and Marc Gasol had 28 points and 8 boards.
This game was actually a low scoring game going into the fourth quarter 72-69 and then everything went haywire in the fourth with the Grizzles outscoring the Raptors 34-31 with the Raptors took 13 free throws in the quarter while the Grizzles were 12 of 19 and James Johnson had three fouls before the 1:30 minute point and fouled out with 14 points and 7 boards with 5.7 seconds left in regulation. It looked like with 13.7 seconds left and the Raptors up 100-96 it looked like it was over but Rudy Gay hit two 3's in the last 7.4 seconds and when with .9 seconds left to tie it up @ 103 it looked like it was heading to overtime but Andrea Bargnani almost ended with a buzzer beater 30 footer that almost hit and he would end up with 18 points and in overtime the Raptors salted away the game with 112-109 Raptors up and Mike Conley at the line for three throws to tie up the game but after hitting the first he then missed the second and missed the third hoping that a Grizzle would get it and put it back to tie the game but instead it went out of bounds off the Grizzles. Then the Raptors tried to get the ball in but called a timeout when they could not get it in and then DeMar was fouled with the ball coming in and he hit both free throws to give him 18 points and the Raps the four point victory.
Andrea Bargnani played 39 minutes and may be given the night off against the Bobcats tomorrow which is four game and five nights for Andrea
Tom Mehegan
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