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Cavaliers-Raptors Preview |
Kyrie Irving’s NBA debut against the Toronto Raptors was completely Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers look to win their third straight While Cleveland saw Irving as a player it could build around when it drafted Since that game, it’s clear why the Cavaliers (3-2) are so high on Irving. Irving had 20 points, six assists and no turnovers in Cleveland’s 115-101 “Kyrie makes everyone around him better,” coach Byron Scott said. “He gets Thompson, the fourth overall pick in the same draft, had his most effective Tuesday’s victory moved the Cavaliers above .500 for the first time since Cleveland has been better defensively since that last game against the The Raptors (2-3) snapped a three-game losing streak with a 90-85 win at New Andrea Bargnani and DeMar DeRozan each scored 21 points as Toronto opened a Despite the scare, the Raptors gave up their fewest points of the season Bargnani, averaging 22.6 points, scored four in the final 47 seconds after Dwane Casey wants Bargnani to take on a bigger role and the coach is liking “He ran the floor really well and … he’s really giving it to us on the The Raptors have won three of four against the Cavaliers. What do you guys think about this. Posted in nba, raptors, Uncategorized | Comments Off
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Raptors hang on to edge Knicks |
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Toronto Raptors beat Knicks in New York |
NEW YORK—Go on, all you Raptor fans who mocked coach Dwane Casey and his “pound the rock” mantra and rolled your eyes at the thought of some 1,300-pound boulder as some talisman for the season. Make light if you will but in the aftermath of a rather impressive victory, a guy who’d struggled all season before playing a significant role in a 90-85 road win invoked the rock, the mantra and the importance of doing your job every day because good results may come at any time. “There are no moral victories and for us to come through tonight was good because we’re a young team and it’s going to help us with our confidence and knowing we can win tough games by closing them out,” said Rasual Butler, who had 13 points and 10 rebounds in the victory. “That’s why coach (Dwane) Casey and the coaching staff, we have this statement: Pound the rock. We know it’s going to take work, just like the statement says, it might be the 101st time that you finally crack the rock; you have to continue to work every day.” Casey has tried to instill that kind of work ethic in a team that, so far this season, has responded with a consistently hard effort. But before Monday night, they hadn’t had any tangible things to show for it. They’d dropped three games in a row, blown good leads in the last two, and another group might have been in danger of throwing up their arms at the futility of it all and taking at least a night off. But this team didn’t. And when the Knicks made an inevitable run and carved an 18-point lead to one with just over a minute remaining, they found some inner reserve to make the right play and fight through the mental fatigue. Andrea Bargnani made a clutch jumper in the low post to make it a three-point game and then matched a Knicks basket with two clutch free throws with 17.7 seconds left. And after the Raptors forced Carmelo Anthony into badly missing a potential game-tying three with 13.2 seconds left, Anthony Carter sealed the game with two foul shots of his own. “At halftime, we talked about that: they were going to make a run, we needed to keep our composure, make the easy plays,” said Casey. “We still had 18 turnovers, that’s way too many turnovers for us. Great win for us but we’ve got to learn from it and cut down on our turnovers.” Bargnani finished with 21 points, the same as DeMar DeRozan, as the Raptors were finally rewarded with a win from a good night’s work. “(Sunday) coach told us to stick with what we were doing,” said Bargnani. “Keep working, keep doing the same thing because it was working . . . we just had to finish the game. “That’s what we did today, we finished the game. We played for 48 minutes and in the fourth quarter, we made really good decisions.” Jose Calderon, with nine points and 12 assists, logged a season-high 43 minutes but calmed things down offensively late in the game when the Raptors needed it most. Anthony led the Knicks with 35 points and Toney Douglas had 22. The Raptors did have the benefit of catching a Knicks team with a barren bench and a distinct lack of offensive firepower. Amar’e Stoudemire missed the game with a bad ankle, a knee injury has rookie Iman Shumpert on the inactive list, and Baron Davis is still weeks away from being able to even practise. Stoudemire, who hurt the ankle on Thursday against the Lakers, said before the game that he could be back Wednesday night against the Charlotte Bobcats, but that there were no guarantees. That means extended minutes for the likes of rookie Josh Harrellson, who was a nonfactor, and a thin bench that puts all kinds of pressure on the starters to play long minutes. Running low on time today, i’ll be back tomorrow hopefully with some more news. |
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Raptors hold off the Knicks |
National Post Staff Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey has told his new team among all the things they will learn under his tutelage the most important is to know how to deal with run, because the opponent will, at some point in a game, start burying shots, and stopping that momentum could determine everything. The Raptors could not not stop the run Sunday, when Orlando went on a 16-0 run in the final period to erase a double-digit deficit and bury Toronto. And it almost got the best of them Monday in New York, when the Knicks found their groove in the third quarter and cut a 17-point lead down to three. But the Raptors turned some strong defensive rebounds and some key points off the bench into an 88-85 win. The Knicks, powered by Carmelo Anthony’s game-high 35 points, trimmed the Raptors’ lead to just a single point inside the game’s final seconds, but two key three throws from Andrea Bargnani, who had 21 points, sealed Toronto’s second win of the season. Although Toronto shot nearly 53% from the floor in the first quarter, the Knicks took a 23-22 lead thanks to five three-pointers — three from Anthony. Bargnani gave the Raptors early energy, however, making his first four shots. The Knicks appeared happy to continue to launch the ball from beyond the arc in the second period, but went scoreless for more than four minutes as the Raptors went on an 8-0 run. With Bargnani and Calderon on the bench, Anthony Carter fired quick, crisp passes to DeMar DeRozan and Amir Johnson as the Knicks were negligent to screen Toronto around the rim. Not even Anthony, who had 18 points before halftime, could stir New York’s offence. The Knicks were passive all over the floor and the team’s field-goal shooting dipped as low as 27.8% in the second quarter, while Calerdon spread the ball around and helped Toronto build a 17-point lead. Defensively,the Raptors tried to devour every shot that bounced off the rim and had 22 defensive rebounds compared to three offensive boards for the Knicks, who found it hard igniting their transition offence even after they abandoned a perimeter game and started driving to the basket. New York was far more aggressive after the interval, double-teaming high up the court and forcing Toronto to take quick, off-balance shots. As the Raptors began to struggle, Anthony and Tony Douglas started clawing the score line back. Douglas hit three three-pointers as New York outscored Toronto 24-16 in the third, but timely three-point plays off the bench from Rasual Butler, James Johnson and Leandro Barbosa helped maintain Toronto’s advantage, setting up an 8-2 for the Raptors to close out the third quarter. Bulter, who finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds, was key in the final frame, blocking out Anthony and hitting timely threes. Barbosa offered 10 points off the bench, while DeRozan started slow once again but also finished with 21 points. National Post Comment Below!. |
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Raptors hang on to drop Knicks |
The Knicks’ poor first-half effort gave Toronto another big lead. Then their poor final-minute execution allowed the Raptors to keep this one. Andrea Bargnani and DeMar DeRozan each scored 21 points, and the Raptors held onto a big cushion this time, beating New York 90-85 on Monday night. Jose Calderon added nine points and 12 assists for the Raptors, who blew a 16-point lead Sunday in Orlando before losing 102-96. They opened a 17-point advantage at halftime in this one thanks to the Knicks’ inept second quarter then held on to snap a three-game losing streak. “We didn’t let their run get to us,” DeRozan said. “The last couple of games you know teams made runs on us and we let it get to us and we kind of broke down on the defensive end. So tonight we didn’t let that happen.” Carmelo Anthony had 35 points and 11 rebounds as the Knicks played their second straight game without Amare Stoudemire, who has a sprained left ankle. But they couldn’t duplicate their impressive play from their victory without him on Saturday in Sacramento, shooting just 36 per cent from the field and misfiring on 25 of their 35 three-point attempts. Toney Douglas had 22 points for the Knicks, 12 during a third quarter that finally woke them up after a dreadful second period in which they made three baskets. But he appeared to forget the play when the Knicks inbounded down three in the final seconds, forcing Anthony to launch a long-range attempt that missed with 13 seconds left. Coach Mike D’Antoni was all the way on the court hollering for Douglas to move before the ball was thrown in, and he said after the game the Knicks forgot the play that was to be run. “I thought the whole first half our energy was down. We didn’t play real hard. And then I think we got a little snake bitten in the sense of when you’re not playing hard, things aren’t falling, it started being contagious and everybody started missing shots, and we were playing on our heels,” D’Antoni said. “Halftime we talked about it and we came out and played aggressive and I thought second half was really good, but we needed obviously 48 minutes and didn’t get it.” Missing a chanceThe Raptors missed a chance to extend a three-point lead in the final 90 seconds when Amir Johnson blew a dunk, and Anthony followed with a drive into the lane to cut it to 84-83 with 1:04 to go. Bargnani answered with a jumper, and after Tyson Chandler’s dunk, Bargnani sank a pair of free throws to keep it at a three-point edge with 17 seconds left. Anthony missed the three-point attempt and Anthony Carter, who finished last season with the Knicks, hit two free throws to make it 90-85 with 10.7 seconds remaining. Rasual Butler had 13 points and 10 rebounds for Toronto. “A little bit different than last night,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “They made the run. We knew they were going to make a run. Our guys bounced back, hung in there, took the blow and absorbed it.” Stoudemire could be back Wednesday against the Bobcats, and Iman Shumpert could return this week, ahead of the two to four week absence that was expected when he sprained a right knee ligament in the Christmas opener. The Knicks showed how badly they could have used his help in the first half. New York led 23-22 after one, but then shot 3 of 19 (16 per cent) in the second quarter. They heard some boos at Madison Square Garden, where the loudest cheers came when receiver Victor Cruz of the playoff-bound Giants was shown in his courtside seat. The Knicks didn’t monopolize the ugliness — Toronto’s Jamaal Magloire threw up an airball on a free throw. But Toronto shot 56 per cent in the second quarter and ran off seven straight during one Knicks drought to open a 17-point lead before taking a 51-34 advantage into halftime. “Second half we played with a lot more confidence,” Anthony said. “First half, I really don’t know what was wrong with us. No excuses, but I think, I know, in the second half we did a better job defensively. Offensively guys made shots.” DeRozan hit a three-pointer to open Toronto’s second-half scoring, but the Knicks surged back behind Douglas, who had a four-point play among his 12 points in the period as New York got within three before Toronto took a 67-58 lead into the final period. Rookie Josh Harrellson, who had 14 points and 12 rebounds as Stoudemire’s replacement Saturday, was limited to two points and five boards. Chandler finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds. There is the quick update of the day. |
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