Lowry made a halfcourt shot at the buzzer of regulation to send the game into overtime, but he shot just 3-for-13 from the field and 1-for-7 from three-point range in the game.
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Outscored the Pacers by 1.8 points per 100 possessions in the first half of games, but were outscored by 10.9 points per 100 possessions in the second half (16.7 in the third quarter).
“I unfortunately had a very good look at it”, Wade said.
“The Raptors are not just Toronto’s team, they’re Canada’s team”, said Delaxshi Nageswaran, who has waited patiently for the team to make it this far since she saw Vince Carter dunk through the legs on television when she was just a kid.
One has to think that Lowry will break out of this slump eventually – he’s too good of a player. Lowry said the fact he’s in a slump now, in the biggest stretch of his career, is what’s most frustrating.
With the Warriors up 2-0, despite playing both games without injured star Stephen Curry, the best-of-seven series moves to Portland for Game 3 on Saturday. Part of the reason why Toronto lost this game was Lowry’s inability to get anything going on offense. “But we’ve got to get out of this next series and I have to play better and shoot the ball better, score the ball better”.
“When you’re in a seven-game series, you get to learn your opponent a little more and their offensive sets, but these just mean a lot more”, Wade said. “I feel like if he can get back to having fun playing defence and playing hard on the defensive end his offence will come easily”.
Canadian sports network Sportsnet says the Raptors’ first-round Game 7 win over the Indiana Pacers had average audience of 1.53 million viewers Sunday night, making it the most-watched Raptors game ever in Canada. Lowry has not shot better than 38.1 percent in any of his eight games this postseason and stayed in the gym after finishing up with his media responsibilities on Tuesday to shoot jumpers. You have to be like: “‘I’m the Kyle Lowry that played the 82 games, all-star, ‘” Carroll said. “What makes it worse is that it’s the playoffs”.
THE SERIES: Miami leads the all-time series between the clubs, 49-26.
The Heat and Bosh announced Wednesday that he wouldn’t play again this season, ending speculation in recent days that the All-Star forward would try to return during the playoffs. Hassan Whiteside had 17 rebounds for the Heat.
The Miami Heat were better than the Raptors after that moment.
When there’s an elite playoff performer such as Dwyane Wade to run an offence and force a defence to collapse on him, Dragic can play off the ball, spot up and drain shots. But we’re a team that will play it out.
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Jonas Valanciunas scored a team-high 24 points and 14 rebounds. “He is a handful”, Casey said. “He’s there, but we have to believe in him, we do believe in him, and he’s going to come out of it”.
