Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan named Eastern Conference player of the week

MAGIC 89, PELICANS 82: Serge Ibaka scored 16 points, and Nikola Vucevic broke out of his shooting slump with 10 points and 14 rebounds to help lift Orlando at home.

This was the Cavs second match-up against the team that many believe to be the second best team in the eastern conference. The Cavs’ Kevin Love will be another key attraction of the game. “The Crown Chase: LeBron James, Cleveland’s Deliverance and the Making of the Modern NBA” will explore how the Cavs lost LeBron and how they worked for years to get him back, up through his return and, of course, last year’s championship.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the game was effectively won in the second quarter, when his team outscored Toronto by 32-15 to forge a 66-53 lead at half-time. “We were down, we were up; we were down, we were up”.

“We got away from our defensive focus”, Casey said on the second-quarter lull.

LeBron James carried much of the load, scoring 28 points, on just 15 shots, to go along with 14 assists and nine rebounds. Since then, the Cavaliers went on a run to get their ninth win of the season which is tied for the franchise’s best start of the season.

“Of course it’s different”, Miles said about facing the Cavaliers without James. The Toronto Raptors will travel to Cleveland to face the Cavaliers. The Cavs made 13 3-pointers in the game, meaning they have made at least 10 3-pointers in each of their first 10 games, an National Basketball Association record.

How all that happened, however, got quite interesting.

Though Toronto eventually mustered up some amount of control, their offense grew stagnant in the final minutes. Toronto came in 5-0 in games where Lowry and DeRozan combined for more than 50 points. Not long after a debatable Kyle Lowry technical foul (Lowry’s take: “I’ll save my money”), Frye waited out the Toronto defence and nailed his fifth trey of the game to restore a two-point Cavs edge with 59 seconds remaining, DeRozan missed a three, Cleveland rebounded and James somehow got free for a layup following a timeout. Toronto reversed the tide of the game and ballooned a lead of their own to seven points. Ballgame.”I wasn’t going to dribble it”, Frye said.

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James did that with five points and six assists in the pivotal fourth quarter, while Irving had 10 points. It’s a shot. I’d take it 100 out of 100 times. “That’s who I am”.

The Cavs and the Raptors met last month, a meeting won by Cleveland in Toronto. “He’s right where he wants to be right now”, Lue said.

Golden State pushed the advantage to 19 points over the first 1:30 of the third quarter, but DeRozan brought the Raptors back with 19 points to send the Raptors into the fourth trailing 95-86. In three games against the Pacers last season, he averaged 28.7 points and 7.7 rebounds.

Kevin Love tallies another double-double while Kyrie Irving adds 24 points as the Wine and Gold fall to 9-2 on the season. You know it’s a good Lowry game when there are multiple sequences late in the game where he’s running like a insane person, arriving first at the basketball or keeping possessions alive for Toronto.