Jose Calderon gets triple-double and Raps win ugly

Jose Calderon put it all together tonight as he was the strong shooting the ball going 5 of 10 (50) when the team as a whole went 26 for 72 (36%) in the game while leading the team in defensive boards with 9 of their 37 defensive boards and 10 in the game to lead the team who had 45. He had 10 assists and did have of Raps 12 turnovers as they did protect the ball but so did the Pacers and Jose Calderon became the 11 Raptor to pick up a triple-double. The Raptors won their second game of the season as they went into Indiana and sneaked out with a 74-72 victory which is the first road victory and they won the first three quarters but it was not easy. This is because Dwayne Casey had to a timeout 2 minutes and 15 seconds into the game and the Raptors were down 9-2 but the Raptors went on a 27-12 run in the last 9:45 of the first quarter to take a 29-21 and a 8 point lead. The Raptors added a two-pointer in the second quarter and had a 46-36 lead at half and added a free throw in the third quarter to make it 69-58 going into the fourth quarter and they tried to just milk the clock down and take a late shot in the final quarter and it did not work as they went 1 for 15 from the floor with the only field goal was at the 9:26 point of the quarter. Kleiza got the only basket of the quarter and in the last 9:26 of the game the Raptors only scored 3 free throws and if it was not for the defensive rebounds the Raps would of been killed again in the quarter and the Pacers only scored 14 points in the quarter and shot only 32% from the floor (24 of 72). The Raptors only shot 16 of 19 from the free throw line but was 3 of 4 in the fourth quarter and they could of done much better down the stretch from the line as they should of been driving to the basket. DeRozan continued going to the basket and getting to the line as he had 5 of 6 from the line and 5 of 13 from the floor after playing a hour the night before and still lead the Raps with 15 points. Kleiza went 2 of 9 from the floor but went 6 of 6 from the line and had 10 points and Jonas Valanciunas played 22 minutes which is the highest amount in a long time and pulled down 7 defensive boards (8) and was 4 of 8 from the floor and was 1 of 2 from the line. In the end for the Raptors who played 6 players over 20 minutes it end up being Andrea Bargnani who was falling flat in huge minutes as he played 30 minutes and went 3 of 13 from the floor and instead of getting closer to the basket to shot as he was struggling (no free throws) he moved further out (2 of 6 from beyond the arc). The Pacers big guy of Paul George (3 of 14 and 4 of 4 from the line and David West (3 of 12 and 5 of 8 from the line) were a combined of 6 of 26 from the floor but 9 of 12 from the line. George Hill went 8 of 20 from the floor and 2 of 2 from the line and 18 points and the Pacers had 49 boards and had 4 boards more than the Raps and Paul George and Roy Hibbert both had 9 boards and 3 offensive boards each of the 14 offensive boards in the game. DeMar DeRozan will be sleeping a lot over the next few days until Saturday afternoon when they play the Celtics Tom Mehegan