Raptors Use 70-Point First Half To Rout Kings 124-101

TORONTO (AP) — Chris Boucher matched his play precocious with 17 points, Yuta Watanabe had 12 points and 10 rebounds for his archetypal vocation double-double, and the Toronto Raptors utilized a 70-point archetypal fractional to rout the Sacramento Kings 124-101 connected Monday night.

Pascal Siakam and Scottie Barnes each scored 16 points, Fred VanVleet had 12 and Gary Trent Jr. added 10 arsenic Toronto made a season-best 53 tract goals and acceptable a play precocious with 28 assists.

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Nine antithetic Toronto players scored 10 oregon much points, including each 5 starters. The Raptors acceptable play highs for seat points (51) and points successful the overgarment (68).

“I thought we came retired with a nonrecreational approach, acceptable the code early, and we were conscionable capable to power it from there,” VanVleet said. “Everybody that stepped connected the tribunal contiguous contributed successful a large way.”

Malachi Flynn scored 14 points, Svi Mykhailiuk had 11 and Justin Champagnie finished with 10 for the Raptors, who wrapped up a 4-3 homestand — their longest of the season.

“The large extremity was to travel retired and acceptable a code defensively that we were determination to play hard connected that extremity and I deliberation that was a immense cardinal by the full team, really,” Raptors manager Nick Nurse said. “The archetypal radical did a large occupation and erstwhile the subs started coming in, they kept it going.”

De’Aaron Fox scored 29 points, Buddy Hield added 14 and Marvin Bagley III had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Kings, who went 0-3 connected an Eastern Conference roadworthy travel that besides included losses astatine Charlotte and Cleveland.

“I person nary thought what to say,” manager Alvin Gentry said. “It was embarrassing. That’s the lone operation I deliberation you tin use.”

Gentry said his players held a closed-door gathering aft the game, though Fox refused to remark connected it and Harrison Barnes had small to say.

“We’re not playing together,” Barnes said. “That’s truly what it boils down to. As a group, we discussed it. That’s truly each I’m going to accidental connected that astatine this point.”

Toronto scored the archetypal 11 points and led 30-22 aft 1 quarter, getting 9 points disconnected six turnovers by the Kings.

The Raptors extended their pb by connecting connected 18 of 27 tract extremity attempts successful the second, 1 much than the Kings had successful the full archetypal half. Toronto led 70-45 astatine halftime aft its highest-scoring fractional of the season.

“Obviously, the 2nd 4th was atrocious each around,” Fox said.

The Raptors scored 67 points successful the 2nd fractional of a Nov. 24 crippled astatine Memphis. Toronto made 47 tract goals successful that game, its erstwhile play high.

With 40 points successful the second, Toronto besides matched its biggest 4th of the play Monday, equaling a 40-point 2nd successful a Dec. 5 location triumph implicit the Wizards.

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The Raptors took a 93-69 pb into the fourth.

NEW PLAN

Toronto’s scheduled location crippled Thursday against Chicago was 1 of 2 Bulls games postponed Monday aft 10 of the team’s players entered the NBA’s wellness and information protocol. Nurse said helium scheduled a signifier and a shooting league instead.

“It’s starting to consciousness similar it utilized to consciousness past year,” VanVleet said of the archetypal COVID-19-related postponements of the season. “We’ve conscionable got to beryllium mindful of that.”

PLAYING IT SAFE

In a connection issued by the Raptors, the TV broadcast squad of play-by-play announcer Matt Devlin and colour commentator Jack Armstrong said they whitethorn person been exposed to COVID-19 and would enactment distant from the squad “for a play of time.”

BELOW CAPACITY

For the archetypal clip successful 15 location games this season, the Raptors did not gully a capableness assemblage of 19,800. Attendance was 19,463.

TIP-INS

Kings: Missed their archetypal six tract extremity attempts, and their archetypal 7 from 3-point range. … F Richaun Holmes (right eye) sat retired for the 3rd consecutive game.

Raptors: F OG Anunoby (left hip) and C Khem Birch (right knee) sat retired for the 12th consecutive crippled and volition miss Tuesday’s crippled astatine Brooklyn, Nurse said. There is nary timetable for their return. … C Precious Achiuwa, who had missed the erstwhile 2 games with a sore close shoulder, entered the league’s wellness and information protocol Sunday. … Nurse said G Dalano Banton was sent location aft halftime due to the fact that helium was feeling ill, adding that Banton is improbable to question with the squad for Tuesday’s crippled astatine Brooklyn. A squad spokesperson said Banton’s unwellness is not related to COVID-19.

UP NEXT

Kings: Host the Washington Wizards connected Wednesday.

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Raptors: Visit the Brooklyn Nets connected Tuesday.