The Raptors started Monday’s game in Portland a little slow, sputtered a bit in the fourth quarter, but managed to come out of it with a 95-91 win over a short-handed Blazers team without starting point guard Damian Lillard to improve to 22-8 on the season and 11-3 on the road.
Thanks to 29 points on 12-for-23 shooting from C.J. McCollum, and Toronto shooting just 33.7 percent from the field and committing 12 turnovers, the Blazers hung around for most of the game. But in the fourth quarter, when the game got close, Kyle Lowry took over again, finishing with 27 points on 8-for-18 shooting, making five threes and adding seven rebounds and four assists.