Raptors in Milwukee for the first time in over 5 years to a great first week of 2013/14

1827 is the amount of days between w's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as it took since November 1, 2008 to tonight November 2, 2013 (5 years and a day later)but it is now over as the 10 game losing streak broken with a huge 97-90 victory to move to 2-1 on the early 2013-14 season. So the five years has changed a lot as Sam Mitchell has gone from having a month left in his Raptors coaching career (he was canned on December 3, 2008) and now Raptors analyst. While the Raptors still had 147 games left with Chris Bosh (he did not play in all of them) and the guy we the rights to Roy Hibbert for Jermaine O'Neil was still on the team (he lasted the first half of the 2008-09). So now back to November 2, 2013 and the Raptors 97-90 victory which looked easy going into the fourth quarter after their first winning third quarter 26-19 and a 12 lead (77-65) but the Bucks came out ran a 10-3 run into a 5 point hole and a tied game with 5:53 left in the game. The Bucks down the stretch could not cash in on the Raptor's charity at the line they missed 5 of 6 from the line and then also a pair of three balls and it helped the Raps to fight back and finished off the Bucks with a 12-5 run to end the game. They show another side of them as they finished strong instead of the usual folded chair act that helped them to lose a lot of close games in the three games which is hugely refreshing. Rudy Gay had off night from the floor (4-14) but made up for 1t by getting to the line 10 times (making 8) and Terrence Ross was given a huge opportunity playing 22 minutes and was smart with a couple of the four fouls he used as he made the Bucks work for their points instead of easy dunk points that would of gotten the crowd out of their seats and he added 5 boards. Landry Fields is a much different so far this season with 5 boards and 4 assists to go with 11 points (3 for 7 from the floor) and has averaged 23 minutes and 6.9 boards and 7.7 points so the new dad is more at eaz. Another new dad DeMar DeRozan came up with 17 points against the Bucks after 31 against the Hawks last night in a losing effort and is averaging 37 minutes and 20.3 points in the first three games. Tyler Hansbourgh has been a reminder in the first three games off the bench to the rest of the team as he had 6 rebounds and took 3 shots in the game had 7 points in 16 minutes tonight and went to the line 4 times but he showed what he could do in the home opener against the Celtics in a 93-87 victory when played 25 minutes and it felt that half of his 12 boards came in the first 3 or 4 minutes of the fourth quarter and set the tone after the Raps destroyed in the third by the Celtics. The Raptors have two horrible third quarters as they got outscored by the Celtics by 12 points (34-22) and fought in the fourth quarter to win and then gave 30 in the third after getting into a huge hole in the second quarter -9 (24-15) and after a strong fourth quarter (27-23) it was not enough (lose 102-95). If it was not for the second quarter the Raps would be 3-0 and they still have work to do on the dirty half (defensively) as they allowed the C's 47% shooting (over 60 in the first quarter) and 48% shooting to the Hawks last night. It looks promising with more practice O YA the Heat and that LBJ guy come to town (piece of cake) Tom Mehegan