Andrea Bargnani rests as the Raps are thunder stuck

Til was going to be a very messy at the best of times tonight for the Raptors as the Thunder came in with a three game losing streak and are percentage points behind the Spurs but when Jose Calderon who has a nasty black under his right eye is the only Raptor shooting well as he was 8 of 12 (19 points) from the floor while the rest of the team was 21 of 66 from the floor (31.8) and they were 15 of 59 (25%) before going 6 of 7 down the stretch to finish the game. So in the game DeMar DeRozan was 6 of 22 from the floor (16 points) and only 1 for 8 from the floor in the second half and this after Andrea Bargnani left the game with a tight calf with 4 minutes left in the first half with 1 of 3 from the floor and 5 of 6 from the line for 7 points and took a seat for the just of the game and maybe diffidently a question mark going into tomorrow's game against the Indiana Pacers and Barbosa. The Thunder who were lead by Kevin Durant with 22 points, James Harden had 17 points, and Russell Westbrook had 15 points along with 6 boards & assists gave the Raptors a chance to stay in the game as they 6 of their 16 turnovers in the first quarter and the Thunder went on a 12-4 run to open the second quarter and take a 13 point lead and the Raptors found their shooting legs late in the quarter as they finished the quarter on 6-2 run to close to 50-43 @ half. The third started well for the Raptors as they outscored the Thunder 12-8 in the first half of the quarter but then the wheels came completely off as they were 0 for 8 from the floor and 0 for 3 from beyond the arc and got outscored 12-0. It continued into the fourth quarter where they were 0 for 1 from the floor and 0 for 2 from the line until DeRozan scored a bucker with just over 9 minutes left in the game and the Thunder scored the first 12 points in the fourth quarter and in just under 9 minutes the Thunder scored 24 unanswered points and took a 82-55 lead on their way to a 91-75 victory. This game really showed if a couple of scoring parts are missing in Bargnani and DeRozan it can be a tough night at the office and when the Raps offense goes dry then it really can go dry as they allowed the Heat to score 20 unanswered points as well and with Alan Anderson and Gary Forbes were third on the team in scoring with 8 points each it really says who weak can be. Also having 14 assists on 29 made fields is not good enough and more than 20% of your shoots are from beyond the arc (16 of 78) it is not a winning formula and that to go with the Thunder shooting lights out themselves as they hit 10 threes on 23 shots and the Raps hit 6 on 16 shots. The Raps will come out with a much better effort tomorrow against the Pacers and James Johnson finally after two games got out of coach Casey's dog house and was 2 of 11 from the floor Tom Mehegan