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VanVleet and Siakam paced the Pistons
With Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam scoring 63 points combined, the Raptors narrowly defeated the Pistons 119-118 for their 4th win in their last 5 games.
The Raptors continue to compete for a spot in the East Play-In tournament. Thus, after their hard-fought 119-118 win over the Pistons, they moved up, albeit marginally, to 10th place in the East and improved their record to 27-31 against the 26-30 Bulls.
Fred VanVleet was the leading scorer for the winners with 35 points, with Pascal Siakam adding 28 points and Scotty Barnes adding 20 points.
For the Pistons, Bojan Bogdanovic had 33 points, Alec Burks had 21 points, and Jayden Ivey and Hamidou Diallo had 18 points each.
THE DODECALPTA: 31-29, 53-52, 84-77, 119-118
birds of prey: Siakam 28 (1 treble, 6 assists), Atshua 11 (11 rebounds), Barnes 20 (3), Peltle 6 (5 rebounds), VanVleet 35 (6/13 trebles, 8 assists), Young 4 (5 rebounds), Bouche 7 (5 rebounds), Flint 5 (1), Bandon 3
PISTONS: Bogdanovic 33 (3/8 threes, 5 rebounds), Stewart 16 (3), Duren 6, Ivey 18 (3 threes, 7 assists), Hayes 2 (1/10 shooting, 0/5 threes, 5 assists), Livers 2, Joseph 2, Burks 21 (4/7 3-pointers), Diallo 18 (7 rebounds)
Source: sport 24
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