Raptors take care of wounded Wolves

Behind another performance by the back court of Kyle Lowery (22) and DeMar DeRozan (22) who had 44 of the Raptors 105 points and they took apart the wounded Wolves piece by piece by taken advantage of 24 Wolves turnovers. The Wolves had 16 of their turnovers in the first half and the Raptors got 27 of their 56 points off the turnovers and lead 56-47 at halftime while Wolves lost J.J. Barea in the first half to a concussion after being hit in the head by a teammate's knee as he lay on the floor and this was after they went into the game without teo of their top players Kevin Love or Ricky Rubio in the lineup. In the second half the Wolves got the raptors in foul trouble and chipped away at the lead as they outscored the Raptors 26-23 in the quarter as the Wolves went 11 of 12 from the line in the third quarter but were down 79-73 going into the final quarter. In the fourth quarter the Raptors finished the game by outscoring the Wolves 26-13 behind the scoring of Alan Anderson off the bench with 10 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter as the bench put up 18 of their 40 points in the last quarter. The bench was needed in a big way in a back-to-back as Landry Fields is still finding himself in the system as he went 2 for 4 from the floor and 1 for 1 from the line for 5 points while the starting front court of Andrea Bargnani (4 of 16, 10 points) and Jonas Valanciunas (2 for 8 and 4 points) had 14 points on 6 of 24 from the floor. The Wolves had over 53% shooting from the floor in the first half and in the second half the Raptors clamped down on them as they shot around 40% and ended the game shooting 45.3% for the game. They were lead by Andrei Kirilenko (17 points) and Nikola Pekovic (15 points) and Derrick Williams lead everyone with 8 boards. The Raptors out boarded the Wolves 39-36 as Kyle Lowery, DeMar DeRozan, Ed Davis all had 7 boards and Lowery added 5 assisrs as both teams had 18 assists in the game. Kyle Lowrie and DeMAr DeRozan are on fire for the Raps with 97 combined points over the last two games Tom Mehegan