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MAGIC - RAPTORS PREVIEW

 

ESPN GO.com

Saturday, March 29, 2014

 

The Toronto Raptors just locked up a playoff spot, but they aren't ready to take their foot off the pedal just yet.

 

Toronto looks to inch closer to the Atlantic Division title when it visits the last-place Orlando Magic, who try to avoid a seventh consecutive loss in the series Sunday.

 

The Raptors (41-31) are headed back to the postseason after sweeping a home-and-home set against Boston with Friday's 105-103 win. DeMar DeRozan had 30 points and Amir Johnson made a tiebreaking layup with seven seconds left as Toronto improved to 30-2 when leading after three quarters.

 

The Raptors have given the Magic fits since the start of last season, taking all six matchups while allowing 88.7 points per game. Kyle Lowry and DeRozan scored a combined 52 points and Toronto held a 50-32 rebounding edge in a 105-90 win Feb. 23 the last time these teams met.

 

Lowry also thrived in this season's first matchup, posting a season-high 33 points and 11 assists in a 98-83 victory Jan. 29. Lowry had to be helped off the court after injuring his right ankle Friday, but he isn't expected to miss any time.

 

Orlando (21-52) has followed a nine-game losing streak with back-to-back wins, 95-85 over Portland on Tuesday and 110-105 over Charlotte in overtime Friday. Nikola Vucevic led the way with 24 points and a season-high 23 rebounds as the Magic stormed back from 16 down.

 

"I knew it would turn around," Vucevic said. "A 15-16 point lead in this league is nothing. You have to keep fighting, grinding and that's what we did."

 

Arron Afflalo finished with 17 points -- including a tying 3-pointer with seven seconds left in regulation -- and Jameer Nelson had 11 and eight assists in his first game back since missing four with a sore knee.

 

 

LINK:__http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/preview?gameId=400489969

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Some pretty poor calls. We outshot them, out rebounded them, out-assisted them, had only 4 more TOs...-13 disparity on FTAs. There's your difference in the game. One of their players took more FTs than our entire team. Cannot overcome that kind of junk.

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Those 5 seconds were really a questionable call. Anyway, bad way for the refs to kill the interesting finish of the game.

 

Good for our team is that they climbed back into the game after the bad 1st half (specially that horrific 2nd quarter).

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Some pretty poor calls. We outshot them, out rebounded them, out-assisted them, had only 4 more TOs...-13 disparity on FTAs. There's your difference in the game. One of their players took more FTs than our entire team. Cannot overcome that kind of junk.

That pretty much sums it. Makes one think of 30Assists' thread...though it's not like this game meant a lot to us.

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I do love Vic and Vooch as a combo going forward

Victor's first half was awful to watch though, TO after TO...it looked like he had a tough night. But, he really stepped it up in the second half. Don't get me wrong, I think he will be great, just commenting on his Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde game from last night.

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