Raptors come up short against the Bobcats

The Raptors had 28 seconds down one to the one to the Bobcats and they got three different chances to get to the line or make a basket with DeMar DeRozan having a layup which missed it and did not get the call and then got the rebound and went back up with it and it was blocked out of bounds by Bismack Biyombo. The second chance was with just under 10 seconds and it got messy on the floor and it ended up in Jose Calderon's hand and he put up a 3-ball and he got his own rebound and got it and the Raps called a timeout with 3.6 seconds. Their last chance was with a Lowery jumper that was blocked and it got into Andrea Bargnani's hands and he took a long jumper and his shot was changed as he shot it and it came up short as he may have been hit on his arm with no foul and the Bobcats pulled out a 98-97 victory. The difference in the game was DeMar DeRozan who missed his third of the game which all came in the fourth quarter and with the Raps up 1 97-96 and Ramon Sessions made a jumper to put the Cats by one. The fourth quarter started with the Cats going on a 11-2 run to open the game up wisde open 86-76 and the Raptors fought back with a 17-4 run to go open 3 with 3:23 left in the game. The Raptors got a huge push by Jonas Valanciunas put up another double-double in back-to-back games with 16 points and 10 boards in 35 minutes and he was hustling down the floor. DeMar was a fourth quarter player as he 6 of his 14 points in the quarter and only had his three free throws in the quarter which gowa away from the positive game he has been playing most of the season. Andrea Bargnani had 25 points in the game and was 9 of 17 from the floor and 5 of 5 from the line and Kyle Lowery had 21 points but as the starter only had 8 assists in the game and the Raps were only able to have an assist on 23 of 37 made field goals and shot 46.2% from the floor. The bench was hugely soft as Terrence Ross had 11 of the bench's 20 points while Jose Calderon had 7 points and 4 assists. The Bobcats got Kemba Walker had 19 points while Kidd-Gilchrist had 14 points and Byron Mullens lead the team with 8 boards and 10 points and Bismack Biyombo had 11 points with 8 points and Ramon Sessions had 14 points off the bench. Detroit up next Tom Mehegan