Monday, November 12, 2012

DeMar DeRozan works a lot of overtime but same result

DeMar DeRozan played a hour of basketball and he played the tough kind of basketball he has been playing since game two of the season but the Raps still fell 140-133 in triple overtime to the Utah Jazz who won their first road game of the season. So DeMar put together a game of 37 points (a career high) along with 8 boards and 6 assists and he was driving towards the basket and put his body on the line but not getting benefit of the whistle and the best part of his game was not arguing about the non calls. He shot a pretty good 16 of 33 from the floor and did get to the line 7 times where his fatigue showed only hitting 4 of them. Also for the Raps they got some other very good performance as Dwayne Casey used a rotation of 6 players lead by Jose Calderon who was a passing machine as he had 17 assists which is two of his career high and put up 20 points and off the bench he used Amar Johnson and Kleiza who both played 30 plus minutes and were the two players in the game to foul out for the Raps and Kleiza came in in the second quarter and put up 17 of his 20 points in the quarter and added 7 boards in the game while Amar Johnson had 13 boards and 11 points in the game. While Andrea had 10 of his 19 points in the first half of the first quarter while Dominic McGuire played 5 points and 3 boards in 32 minutes and then there was Jonas Valanciunas had 8 of 10 points in the first quarter and played 16 minutes. The Raptors had control of the game until the last minute of the game when Al Jefferson hit a late three-pointer and he had hit only hit one of his last 25 three attempts to tie the game at 104-194 and sent the game to overtime as the Jazz outscored the Raps 18-7 in the last 7 minutes of the fourth quarter. It was the down fall to the Raps as they were not able to put together enough defensive stops to close out the game and in overtime there was no D as the Raps allowed the Jazz to score at will as they scored 36 points in 15 minutes of overtime. The Jazz were lead by Paul Millsap who came up with huge shots in overtime and put 34 points and hit 3 of the Jazz 14 threes in 26 attempts and 9 of 10 from the line as the Jazz got 43 free throws and made 34 of them. Al Jefferson put up 24 points and 17 boards while Mo Williams had 17 points and 14 assists and it was the free throws in the third quarter as they went 15 of 17 after going 6 of 8 from the line in the first half and it was half of their 30 points in the quarter and the Raptors had 30 points in the quarter as well. The Raps had 13 less attempts and were fouled as much in the game and now the Raps head to Indiana for the second half of a back-to-back Tom Mehegan

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