What A Comeback!

By: Jonathan Joubran

Incredible game last night at the Palace in Detroit, as the Raptors and the Pistons squared off. The Toronto Raptors overcame the largest point deficit in franchise history to win the game. Down by twenty-five in the third quarter, the Toronto Raptors faught back hard, and ending up taking the game 120-116! Boxscore is here. Raptors used a strong fourth quarter, outscoring Detroit 37-17 to take the game.
What was key in our comeback was the phenominal play by point guard Jerryd Bayless tieng his career high with 31 points, to go with a solid 7 assists, 5 rebounds and a steal! Great job by Bayless yesterday in the absense of Jose Calderon. Bayless is really fitting in with this Raptors crew nicely and I love it! Centre Andrea Bargnani is showing signs of consistancy which is what we need from the Italian star, dropping 22 points, but he still needs to work on those rebounds! Mr. Barbosa played absoloutley great off the bench dropping 22 points to go along with 7 assists. If Barbosa keeps up this stellar play, I see another 6th man of the year ballot coming along! DeMar also played nice, dropping a great 16 points.
Key preformance for Detroit: Ben Wallace.. how old is this guy again?! His age didn't show yesterday, as he dropped 23 points, to go with 14 rebounds and 5 steals. He even dropped a three!

What THEY said (Courtesy of Raptors Game Rap)
Jay Triano: "The second half we had four turnovers for four points and they had second chance points worth three.  It is not about coverages and it is not about intensity, it is about taking care of the basketball and we did that in the second half and I have never been down by 20 and shooting 65 percent from the field.  I knew we had no problems scoring but we had to take care of the ball and we had to box out, I thought we did a lot better job in the second half."
Amir Johnson: “We just had to be accountable for ourselves out there and step up to the plate. We knew what we had to do, there was no question about that, and we just stepped it up."
DeMar DeRozan: "We said that we didn’t want to be get embarrassed and then we responded and got on a roll and won the game."
Overall great game by Toronto, they need this win, good job fellas!

Next up for Toronto is the Bobcats on Tuesday, then they're back at home on Wednesday against the Bulls where it is going to be Italian night! And yes, the Fanatics will be there!

'Till next time, LETS GO RAPTORS

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