Raptors lost a bowling shoe ugly game to the Pistons

The first half of the game was the lowest scoring first half in the 2011-12 NBA season as there was a combined 63 points (Raps 34-29) and the Raptors shot 13 of 38 in the first half (32.4%) while the Pistons were 10 of 36 (27.7%) but then in the third quarter the Pistons went 10 of 19 from the floor and scored 24 points in the quarter while the Raptors were 7 of 17 and they scored 16 points and the Pistons took a 53-50 lead and it was the march to 75 as the first to 75 was believed to win the game and the Raptors were 4 of 16 down the stretch and the Pistons would live on the line down the stretch and win the game 76-73. The Raptors had Alan Anderson take a three-ball with just under 9 seconds left in the game and the ball was loose for 2 seconds before Ben Gordon picked it and he was fouled and hit the first of two free throws and missed the second Solomon Alabi got the board which was his tenth of the game and Kleiza took the last second three which missed. The Raptors in this ugly game who shot 37.7% in the game were lead by DeMar DeRozan who was 7 of 15 from the floor with 16 points while the rest of the team were 15 of 52 and shot 28.8% from the floor. Kleiza was 4 of 10 from the floor and ended up with 12 points while Gray (7) and Davis (8) helped Alabi (10) with out rebounding the Pistons (45-40) in the game while there were 21 assists on only 29 made field goals in the game so the Raptors will diffidently figure out who will be the next true point guard after Calderon (assist first, score second). The Pistons got a good rebounding game from Greg Monroe who had 17 boards in the game but it was Brandon Knight (7 of 17 and 19 points) and Ben Gordon (6 of 11 and 19 points) did more than half their scoring while the rest of the team shot 13 of 43 from the floor and shooting 30.9%. The Piston lived at the line as they took a third of their shots from there (35 of 106) and still made only 22 of them (62.9%) while the Raptors only took 16 and made 11 (68.8%). It was a bowl shoe ugly game Tom Mehegan