You know there’s garbage time when…

Raptors 112, Thunder 96

…when the picture of last night’s game includes :

1. Quincy Douby
2. Damien Wilkins
3. Malik Rose
4. Robert Swift
5. Jake Voskuhl

Ugh, the Raptors seemed to finally get it together but only 70 games too late into the season.  It’s a little frustrating to watch this happen now when the #8 seed in the East is just 3 games under .500, if they only woke up like 30-40 games ago.   The Raps are on a tear with a 3 game winning streak and beating opponenets with a margin of victory of 16.0+ ppg.   Chris Bosh and Shawn Marion both had 20-10 games while Bargs had 14 pts and 9 rebounds.  Kapono had 15 points off of the bench for the Raps.  The Raps, especially Shawn Marion, put out a good defensive effort holding Kevin Durant to 4-13 shooting and Russell Westbrook to 5-11 shooting.  Nick Collison led the Thunder with 21 points.  The game was out of the Thunder’s hands early on as the Raps never looked back.

Key Notes:

• The Raps have been outrebounding teams lately, and outrebounded the Thunder 54-37
• The Raps dropped dimes and had 36 to OKC’s 21 and also nailed 48 field goals
• Pops still plagued with the knee, had 0 points and 2 boards
• Roko B. Ware had a career-high 10 assists
• For more OKC coverage, check out Blue Blitz
• Raps play the Bulls on Sunday