RAPTORS: Post-Game Notes

POST-GAME NOTES
(26-48) TORONTO RAPTORS, 120 vs. (31-43) BOSTON CELTICS, 124
AIR CANADA CENTRE
Tuesday, April 4, 2006

With the loss, Toronto falls to 26-48 on the season and is officially eliminated from playoff contention … With the win, Boston improves to 31-43 … Toronto is now 10-11 all-time at home versus Boston and 16-25 overall.
A total of 935 points were scored during the recent four-game home stand (Toronto: 453, Opponents: 482).
First Quarter: Toronto 31, Boston 31, …Boston out-shot Toronto .611 (11-for-18) to .444 (12-for-27) from the field in the opening frame … Toronto made seven-of-seven from the line … Peterson led all scorers with 13 points (4-6 FG, 5-5 FT), to go with three assists and two rebounds … Peterson is averaging 10.8 points, while shooting .600 (15-for25)from the line and 1.000 (12-for-12) from the line in the past four first quarters … Raef LaFrentz made three-of-three from the three-point line for nine points …Wally Szczerbiak had nine points … Boston committed eight turnovers (12 points) to Toronto’s zero (zero points).
Second Quarter: Boston 32, Toronto 30, …Boston made 10-of18 (.556) and Toronto made 10-of-24 (.417) shots from the field … Bonner had quarter highs of 11 points and eight rebounds in the quarter … Paul Pierce and Raef LaFrentz paced the Celtics with seven points each … The Raptors made eight-of-eight free throw attempts.
Third Quarter: Toronto 29, Boston 26…Toronto made 10-of-19 (.526) shots from the field and Boston shot .471 (eight-for-17) … Mike James had a quarter-best 10 points, while Paul Pierce netted a Celtics-best eight ... The two teams combined for 10 turnovers (19 points) in the quarter … The Raptors had seven fast-break points, while the Celtics had none in the quarter.
Fourth Quarter: Boston 35, Toronto 30 … Boston made seven-of-14 (.500) shots … Toronto connected on 12-of-29 (.414) shots from the field in the quarter … Boston made 24 trips to the line going 19-for-24 (.792), while Toronto made five-of-five … Mike James had a quarter-best 10 points, while Ryan Gomes had seven for the Celtics … Tony Allen had five points and four assists in the fourth quarter.
Game Totals: Toronto – 44-99 (.444) FG, 4-20 (.200) 3FG, 28-28 (1.000) FT, 42 rebounds, 24 assists. Boston – 36-67 (.537) FG, 12-24 (.500) 3FG, 40-53 (.755) FT, 38 rebounds, 26 assists.
Toronto made a franchise-record 28-of-28 free throws, none missed (17-for-17, April 16, 2002 at Milwaukee) ... Toronto has been perfect from the line 10 times in franchise history (most recent, April 14, 2004 at New Jersey, 11-for-11).
Boston had a season-high tying 12 three-point field goals (Nov. 13 vs. Hou.) on 24 attempts.
Boston had Raptors opponent regulation season-highs 40 free throws made (33, Jan. 3 vs. Atl.) on a season-high 53 attempts (49, Nov. 13 vs. Sea., OT) ... The 40 free throws made (37, Dec. 21 vs. Utah) and 53 free throws attempted (47, Nov. 2 vs. New York) were both Celtics season-highs.
The Celtics had 10 turnovers (17 points) in the first half, while Toronto had three turnovers (five points) … Boston finished the game with 20 turnovers (29 points) and Toronto finished with 11 (20 points) … In four games versus Toronto this season Boston averaged 17 turnovers (21.3 points).
Boston’s bench shot .667 (18-of-27) from the floor for 53 points.
Morris Peterson played 48 minutes (third time this season playing the entire game) and had a game-high 32 points on 11 of a career-high 27 field goal attempts (26, Apr. 2 vs. NOK) to go with eight rebounds and a team-high tying six assists … During the four-game home stand Peterson averaged 31 points on 46-of-92 (.500) shooting from the field, 15-of-34 (.441) from beyond the arc and 18-of-20 (.900) from the line.
Matt Bonner had a season-high 16 points (15, Mar. 7 at Cle.) and a career-high 13 rebounds (12, Mar. 24, 2006 vs. Min.) for his second career double-double (Mar. 24, 2006 vs. Min.).
Mike James had 25 points and made 11-of-11 shots from the charity stripe … James made one-of-six shots from the field in the first half and three-of-three field goal attempts in the first half … James made six-of-nine from the field and eight-of-eight from the line in the second-half for 20 points.
Eric Williams had eight points, five rebounds and a season-high five assists (three, Mar. 26 at Mil.).
Wally Szczerbiak had a team-high tying 22 points on six-of-nine shooting from the field and seven-of-seven from the line.
Raef LaFrentz made five-of-seven three-point attempts and finished with 20 points to go with eight rebounds.
Paul Pierce had 22 points and eight rebounds … He made a Raptors opponent franchise-record tying 18 (18, Allen Iverson, Dec. 23, 2003 vs. Phi.) free throws on a Raptors opponent franchise-record 24 attempts (23, Allen Iverson, Dec. 2, 2003 vs. Phi.) … Pierce tied team season highs for free throws (18, Nov. 2, vs. New York) and free throw attempts (24, Nov. 2 vs. New York).
Boston had three players with 20+ points (Paul Pierce, 22, Wally Sczcerbiak, 22 and Raef LaFrentz, 20 ) … The last time a Raptors opponent had three 20 point scorers was March 31 vs. Phoenix (Leandro Barbosa, 28, Boris Diaw, 26, Shawn Marion 21, Steve Nash, 20).
Prior to the game Toronto announced they had signed point guard Andre Barrett for the remainder of this season and the 2006-07 season.