{"id":74391,"date":"2016-04-17T02:37:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=74391"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:47:20","slug":"george-scores-33-pacers-beat-raptors-100-90-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/17\/george-scores-33-pacers-beat-raptors-100-90-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"George scores 33 as Pacers beat Raptors 100-90 in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BERgAF1xHIw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BERgAF1xHIw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:550; line-height:18px;\"> View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; 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JV finishes with 12 points and 19 rebounds in the loss.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/raptors\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Toronto Raptors<\/a> (@raptors) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-04-16T19:48:33+00:00\">Apr 16, 2016 at 12:48pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 For Paul George, missing the playoffs after he was sidelined by injury most of last season was a painful experience.<\/p>\n<p>Now healthy, he couldn&#8217;t be happier about being back in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>George scored 33 points, Monta Ellis had 15 and the Indiana Pacers beat the Toronto Raptors 100-90 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>George missed all but six games last season after breaking his right leg while playing in a scrimmage with Team USA before the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lexapro online <a href=\"http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/images\/gif\/lexapro.html\">http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/images\/gif\/lexapro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Without their star for much of the season, Indiana slumped to a 38-44 finish and missed the playoffs for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat hurt more than the actual break, not getting this team to the playoffs last year,\u201d George said. \u201cThis means a lot, it means a lot to be back here, it means a lot to be on this stage again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After shooting 2 for 9 in the first half Saturday, George shot 10 for 13 in the second, a performance Pacers coach Frank Vogel called \u201cawesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest reason we won,\u201d Vogel said. \u201cPaul\u2019s shot-making late in the game was spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Valanciunas fouled out after scoring 12 points and setting a Raptors\u2019 playoff record with 19 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>All-Star guards Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan both struggled for the second-seeded Raptors. Lowry made 3 of 13 field-goal attempts while DeRozan made 5 of 19. The pair went 1 for 10 from 3-point range and 8 for 15 at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to shoot like that again,\u201d Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto shot 38 percent and made 20 turnovers, leading to 25 Indiana points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a team, I thought we were tight offensively and that frustration carried over to the defensive end,\u201d Casey said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t us. I hadn\u2019t seen us play that tentative on the offensive end all year. That\u2019ll change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan finished with 14 points and Lowry had 11. Cory Joseph scored 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not panicking,\u201d DeRozan said. \u201cWe understand we just played bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto dropped to 0-8 in the first game of an opening-round playoff series. This was the seventh straight playoff defeat for the Raptors, who were swept out of the first round last year after losing the final two games of a seven-game loss to Brooklyn the year before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not last year,\u201d Lowry said. \u201cWe\u2019re very positive, we\u2019re very confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Hill scored 13 points while George Hill and Myles Turner each had 10 for the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of free throws by Bismack Biyombo tied it at 76-all with 6:46 left in the fourth quarter but Rodney Stuckey answered with a 3 for Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto trailed 84-81 after Lowry made 1 of 2 at the line with 4:02 to go, but the Pacers scored 11 of the next 12 points to lead 95-82 after a 3 by Ellis with 1:49 left.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto, first-round losers in each of the past two seasons, has never won a seven-game playoff series. Its only postseason triumph was a five-game series over the Knicks in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Valanciunas had eight points and nine rebounds in the first and the Raptors made 7 of 10 free-throw attempts to lead 24-19 after one quarter.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy metformin online <a href=\"http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/images\/gif\/metformin.html\">http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/images\/gif\/metformin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A 3 by Patterson put Toronto up 36-28 with 5:44 left in the second, but C.J. Miles scored five points and a 3 by Ellis tied it at 41 with 1:19 remaining.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis super force online <a href=\"http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/images\/gif\/cialis-super-force.html\">http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/images\/gif\/cialis-super-force.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Joseph had eight points in the quarter and the Raptors led 45-43 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>George scored 17 points in the third by connecting on 6 of 7 field-goal attempts, including three 3-pointers and a fast-break dunk, as the Pacers took a 70-67 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip-ins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pacers: Indiana snapped a five-game losing streak at Air Canada Centre. The Pacers had not won in Toronto since March 1, 2013&#8230; Solomon Hill finished 10 for 10 at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors: Valanciunas set a franchise record with 15 first-half rebounds&#8230; The Raptors outrebounded the Pacers 52-38, and had 20 offensive rebounds to Indiana\u2019s nine&#8230; Toronto had not led at halftime in the first game of a playoff series since Game 1 of their conference semifinal series at Philadelphia on May 6, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is Monday night at 7 p.m. in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 For Paul George, missing the playoffs after he was sidelined by injury most of last season was a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[3479,10262],"class_list":["post-74391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-toronto-raptors","mauthors-ian-harrison","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281834,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74391\/revisions\/281834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}