Andrea Bargnani was solid but was invisible late

Andrea Bargnani put up 34 in the game but the Raptors lost 90-89 to the Pistons as he did not get a touch in the second last passion for the Raptors in the game as Kyle Lowery took a jumper with less than 17 seconds left in the game. With the Raps up 1 89-88 with the clock running down Brandon Knight slipped through the Raps D for a lay up with 8 seconds left and Kyle Lowery went down and missed another jumper without getting the ball into the Bargnani hot hand and the Raps go 0 and 3 on a winnable road trip and are now 3 and 10 on the season and it looks like the season may already be over. Andrea Bargnani had 17 of the Raptors 20 first quarter points and they trailed by 1 21-20 and had 9 fourth quarters for a pretty good offensive game and did get a couple of defensive stops as well and had 5 boards and 4 assists. Kyle Lowery had 4 points at half and then came out in the third quarter and wiped away a 13-point Pistons lead 63-50 with 12 of his 19 points in the quarter and helped the Raps with a 14-3 run to cut the lead to 4 at the end of three 72-68. Jonas Valanciunas got kicked by Terence Ross in the third quarter and twisted his ankle and was slowed down by the injury afnd after being taken off the court for a few minutes but still was hurt. DeMar DeRozan has begun to not go to the basket and struggled shooting as he shot 2 of 9 and had only 5 points in the game in 34 minutes. Their shooting was down to almost 41% because they had only 20 assists on their 32 made field goals but did do very well from the line as they went 20 of 25 with the exception being Lowery missing the two of three free throws early the fourth quarter. The Pistons got double-doubles from Greg Monroe with 19 points and 11 boards and Andre Drummond came off the bench and got 13 boards to lead the Pistons who had a 47--37 on the boards and added 13 points in half a game. Tayshaun Prince had an efficient night shooting 8 of 11 from the floor and had 16 points and helped the Pistons shot 46% in the game while they got a lot of points in the paint as in the third quarter they had a 40-20 lead in the category. Raptors face Spurs on Grey Cup Sunday and I do not know how low this season is going to get Tom Mehegan