Raptors open and shut the game well against the Magic

behind a fourth quarter performances of Amar Johnson (14 points) and Kleiza (10) who had 24 of the Raptors 30 point Raps fourth quarter to close out the Magic 97-86 to pick their third victory of the season all on the second half of the back-to-back. The Raps took control of the game in the first quarter with a 13-point lead with a minute left in the quarter on 11 points of DeMar DeRozan who was back to the driven DeRozan as he picked up 3 of his 9 points the rest of the game from the line as he finished with 20 points and fell a board short (9) of a double-double. While Andrea Bargnani had 9 of his 17 points in the first quarter and the Raps took a 32-22 lead into the second quarter. The Raps took it easy in the second and the third quarter as they only scored 35 points and when they went into the fourth quarter they were looking up at the magic 69-67 and then went on a run of 23-9 which cemented by a 5-on-1 run out by the Raps that was finished off by ally oop jam and after a Magic timeout Kleiza finished the run with a 3-ball to put the Raps up 92-78 and cruised to a 97-86 victory. The Raps were lead by Amar with 15 points and Kleiza with 12 points and had 27 of the Raps 34 bench points and only 10 before the final quarter while Jose Calderon put up 18 of the Raps 22 assists on 38 field goals and he had 9 points. Jonas Valanciunas had a 23 and a half minute performance and had 6 points and 7 boards in the game. The Raps free throwing this continued to struggled this weekend as they went 14 of 24 from the line as they shot just over 60% and if it was not the Magic and their 40% shooting the Raps would of been destroyed by most of the rest of the league. Canadian Andrew Nicholson had a 8 point and 3 boards in 15 minutes and he struggled on the floor shooting 2 of 7 from the floor. Then they were lead by Glenn Big Baby Davis had a double-double with 16 points and 12 boards and really helped the Magic getting back into the game and off the bench E'Twaun Moore had 16 points and Arron Afflalo helped Baby in the starting lineup with 15 points. Raptors are on the road to Charlotte and Detroit which could be a winnable road trip Tom Mehegan