Friday, April 6, 2012
Raptors come up empty in the fourth
With Jose Calderon's eye swollen shut yesterday and unable to play tonight and Gary Forbes injured the Raptors are going with two point guards who are both on 10 day contracts in starter Ben Uzoh and off the bench they have a brand new 10 dayer Justin dentmon. It was working ubtil the fourth quarter when it showed that the the two player offense died a horrible death as the Raptors were outscored to start the fourth quarter 24-5 lead by the Raptors fourth overall draft pick in 1998 just before he was traded for VC, Antawn Jamison who had 15 of the Cavs first 19 points in the fourth quarter as he had 16 of the Cavs 33 fourth quarter points and also had 5 of 8 boards in the fourth as well. Lester Hudson had 8 of his 23 in the fourth quarter and was truly the only Cav on the floor that could shot from the line as he was 11 of 13 from the line while the rest of the Caves were 18 of 27 and the Raptors were an even worse 15 of 24 and 7 of 8 from DeRozan made a real different as the rest of the team were 50% from the line.
In the 84-80 Cavs win that stopped the Raps three game win streak and winning 4 of their last 5 was looking like Wednesday Sixers game as the Raps took a 42-39 lead into half time with Bargnani having 13 of his 19 in the first quarter and in the third quarter when the Raps took a 63-50 lead into the fourth DeRozan had 11 which was the same as the Cavs in the quarter as the Raptors outscored them 21-11 and he ended up with 19 of his 28 points in the second half while Bargnani who started hot hitting first 6 shots then only made of his final 16.Not having a real third option or Jose Calderon hurt them in the final quarter with Ozoh next with 9 points and it also did not help only having 13 assists on 31 made field goals in the game. The Raptors out rebound the Cavs by 10 (49-39) and it was a group effort as Justin dentmon was the only Raps player without 4 boards and 4 of the other 8 had at least 7 boards and Kleiza lead the team with 8.
So it maybe a bad day for the Raptors on Easter Sunday in OKC *just saying)
Tom Mehegan
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