Raptors dry up late against the Celtics

Raptors fell behind a huge boulder going into the second quarter as the Celtics lead 30-17 into the second quarter as the D was locker in the locker room as the Celtics went 14 of 19 from the floor in the quarter (73.6%). The Raptors got their jack hammers out and chipped the C's lead to down to 4 and went down 8 going into the third quarter and behind 11 of Andrea Bargnani's 15 points in the third quarter the Raptors had chipped that boulder down to a two-point thin smooth rock at 63-61 with 3 and a half minutes that they were ready to throw a cross a calm river but then in the last 3 and a half minutes of the third quarter the C's torched the Raptors to the tune of 16-3 as the Raptors only made three free throws to end the quarter and when Terrence Ross hit a 3 ball with 9 minutes left to cut the lead to 85-67 the Raps first round draft pick in this past draft ended a 6 and half minute drought and stopped a 24-4 run over that span. The C's cruised to a 107-89 victory behind 20 assists from Rajon Rondo which was 2 less than the Raptors had as a team and the C's ended up with 37 on 43 made field goals and shot 56.6% (43 for 76) from the floor. The C's rested their players late as Kevin Garnett only played 17 minutes while 7 players played 24 and 32 minutes and were lead by Jason Terry who had 20 points while Garnett had an efficient game going 6 of 7 from the floor and 3 of 4 from the line and had 15 points and 5 boards. Paul Pierce had 19 points and 6 boards and Jared Sullinger had a double-double of 12 points and 11 boards. The Raps hurt themselves at the line as they came in with the third best free throw% with a over 80% in their first 8 games and then went out and shot 21 of 31 today from the line (67.7%) with DeMar DeRozan a top 10 free throw attempt guy not getting to the line oncefor the first time since the first game of the season.Andrea Bargnani had 15 points to lead the team with John Lucas III and DeRozan went 5 of 10 from the floor and had only 10 points in the game. Heading into tomorrow's against the Orlando Magic the Raptors will be well rested as nobody movre than Andrea who played 26 minutes and are looking for their third win in the second game of a back-to-back as they have only won a game when they had played the night before. Valanciunas had a tough day as he fouled in only 19 minutes against Garnett and had only had 3 points and 2 boards while Ed Davis had 9 boards in the game in 20 and half to go with 7 points Tom Mehegan