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in News & Regeln 12.07.2019 09:10
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DALLAS -- DeMar DeRozan showed lots of love for former teammate and mentor Jose Calderon before Toronto played in Dallas. Then the pupil one-upped his old teacher in the game. DeRozan scored 15 points, including the go-ahead basket on a wild shot while getting fouled in overtime Friday night, and the Raptors overcame a season high in points from Calderon to beat the Mavericks 109-108. Toronto trailed 108-107 after a 3-pointer by Calderon when DeRozans pump-fake got Brandan Wright and Shawn Marion in the air. DeRozan threw up a shot as he was bumped and it went in for the final points with 1:11 remaining. Kyle Lowry led six players in double figures with 20 points for the Raptors, who lost to Charlotte in overtime two nights earlier and were 0-3 in OT this season. "We understand what not to do from the previous one," said DeRozan, who led the Raptors with nine assists. Calderon led Dallas with 23 points, including 11 to go along with three of his nine assists in the fourth quarter, and was 7 of 10 from long range. "Thats just Jose, man," DeRozan said. "Jose seems like every time the ball leaves his hand the balls going in." But not on the possession after DeRozans go-ahead basket. Down by a point, the Mavericks missed three times in one trip in the final minute when Nowitzki misfired from 3-point range and Calderon was off target after the rebound bounced back to him beyond the arc. With a chance to reset, the Mavericks got the ball to Nowitzki again, but he missed a fadeaway jumper from the baseline. Nowitzki scored 22, but missed his last six shots to finish 10 of 22 from the field. "You know its going to be one shot, one stop, and I think we did the right things," said Calderon, who spent most of his first eight years in Toronto before a midseason trade to Detroit last January. "But we couldnt make the last shot." DeRozan missed the free throw after his circus shot, but the Mavericks were off target on their last four, including a runner in the final seconds by Monta Ellis, who had 21 points and a season-high 11 assists. Toronto had its biggest lead at 89-81 when Calderon scored 11 straight Dallas points to get the Mavericks to 93-92. Calderon then drove and zipped a pass to Nowitzki for a 3-pointer to put Dallas in front 95-93. Calderon also assisted on Marions go-ahead basket with 20.9 seconds left, but DeRozan got Toronto even at 101-all with a tough jumper over Marion just 4 seconds later. Nowitzki missed a turnaround jumper with Amir Johnson defending just before the buzzer to end regulation, which included a 14-1 run by Dallas for a 41-22 lead followed by a 27-6 Toronto burst that put the Raptors in front 49-47 in the final minute of the first half. "Its a PG rated show and I cant really say it," Toronto coach Dwane Casey of his first-half message to his team in the building where he was an assistant to Dallas coach Rick Carlisle for three seasons. "Guys responded. They hit us with a haymaker, and Im proud at the way our guys fought back." Torontos Jonas Valanciunas had 18 points and 13 rebounds, including a sequence where he rebounded his own miss twice and eventually scored for a 93-89 lead. Johnson and Terrence Ross scored 15 apiece for the Raptors, who started the fourth quarter on an 11-0 run. Greivis Vasquez had eight of his 14 points during the spurt, including a pair of 3-pointers on assists from DeRozan, who also hit a shot from long range. Ellis inbounded to Nowitzki with 2.9 seconds left in the third quarter, sped around Nowitzki as he got the ball back and hit a high-arching finger roll layup just before the buzzer to put the Mavericks up 81-78. The Mavericks had to fly to Phoenix after the game for their eighth back-to-back of the season and third game in four nights after they had a three-day break between a pair of home games. "It went wrong in the first half," Carlisle said. "They chewed into the lead very quickly. Its hard to build a 19-point lead in this league." Marion scored 14 points and matched Nowitzki with a team-high nine rebounds. NOTES: Mavericks G Devin Harris is now targeting a January return after a setback in his recovery from off-season toe surgery on his left foot. He has stopped basketball activities because of swelling. ... Nowitzki needs 35 points to pass Alex English for 13th on the NBAs scoring list. Joe Montana Youth Jersey . - The Minnesota Vikings have ruled Christian Ponder out for Sundays game at Baltimore, because the quarterback has not yet passed all of his post-concussion tests. Solomon Thomas 49ers Jersey . 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Never got sick or hurt while frolicking in the fields of Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.ANAHEIM, Calif. - When Mike Moustakas smacked a high fly into right field in the 11th inning, the Kansas City Royals No. 9 hitter had no idea whether it had enough juice to get out of the Big A.I knew I hit it pretty good, but that fence out there is pretty tall, the Los Angeles born-and-bred slugger said.Although this group of Royals only has two crazy games of playoff history, its becoming clear that good things happen to Kansas City in October.The Royals went a few more extra innings, withstood a few more scares and figured out another dramatic way to win a playoff game a€” thanks to the local boy.Moustakas homered leading off the 11th, and the Royals kept rolling in their first post-season in 29 years with a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in their AL Division Series opener Thursday night.Kansas City had managed just two baserunners since the fifth inning when Moustakas hit the first extra-inning homer in post-season history for the Royals, a high shot off Fernando Salas that barely reached the elevated right-field stands at Angel Stadium.Its probably the biggest one Ive ever hit so far, said Moustakas, who had dozens of friends and family members in the Royals tiny cheering section. It felt really amazing.Game 2 in the best-of-five series is Friday night at the Big A, with Angels 16-game winner Matt Shoemaker taking on fellow rookie Yordano Ventura.Alcides Escobar had an early RBI double for the Royals, and their bullpen repeatedly escaped trouble in Kansas Citys first game since that spectacular, 12-inning comeback victory over Oakland in the wild-card playoff Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium.Chris Iannetta and David Freese homered early in the Angels first playoff game since 2009, but the majors most productive offence stranded eight runners in the five innings before Greg Hollands perfect 11th.This is the type of game that we play, Royals manager Ned Yost said. We dont score a bunch of runs ... so we have a lot of confidence in our pitching.Winning pitcher Danny Duffy worked the 10th for Kansas City, and Holland picked up the save after arriving at the ballpark around the fourth inning. He went to North Carolina on the Royals off day to attend his childs birth.Mike Trout was 0 for 4 with a walk in his playoff debut. The favourite for AL MVP grounded into a fielders choice in the 10th before Albert Pujols popped out to end his 0-for-4 Angels playoff debut.Josh Hamilton popped up to end the game, capping his 0-for-5 return to the lineup.We had some guys in scoring position, just couldnt get that one hit, especially late, Angels manager Mike Sciosccia said.ddddddddddddThose guys hung in there and got the big outs and got the big hit late. So we hit two home runs to keep ourselves in the game, but outside of that, we didnt really pressure those guys very much.Jered Weaver, Joe Smith and Huston Street combined to retire Kansas Citys final 15 batters before extra innings a€” and thats when the Royals went to work. Kevin Jepsen let two runners on in the 10th, but retired Salvador Perez and Omar Infante to escape.Salas wasnt as lucky, giving up a homer to a third baseman who grew up in the San Fernando Valley before making his big league debut and hitting his first homer in Anaheim three years ago.A raucous crowd banged balloons and cheered on the Angels throughout their post-season return after a half-decade away, but the fans got tense while the teams managed just three hits apiece in the first nine innings. Los Angeles earned home-field advantage throughout the post-season with a big league-best 98-64 record.The Royals cant match Los Angeles lineup on paper, but theyve got some remarkable post-season mojo.Even before Moustakas homer, Nori Aoki made dramatically awkward catches on the right-field warning track to end the sixth and seventh, twice making up for poor routes to the Angels drives with a last-instant stab. Lorenzo Cain also made two exceptional plays in centre field in the first two innings, underlining Kansas Citys stellar defence.Lorenzo Cain is one of the best centre fielders in baseball, and Aoki made some unbelievable plays, Moustakas said. We were able to cut their rallies down a little bit on some of the huge catches there in right field and centre field, and hats off to those guys.Weaver yielded three hits over seven strong innings for the Angels while Jason Vargas, his good friend and Long Beach State teammate, pitched six innings of three-hit ball for Kansas City.TRAINERS ROOMRoyals: RHP Kelvin Herrera walked Freese on five pitches leading off the seventh and then left the game with right forearm tightness. Herrera, a key member of Kansas Citys vaunted bullpen, will be re-evaluated Friday.Angels: Hamilton played left field and batted seventh after missing 21 of the Angels final 22 regular-season games with upper-body injuries.UP NEXTShoemaker (16-4, 3.04 ERA), the 28-year-old rookie who gets credit from Scioscia for saving the Angels season, makes his playoff debut. He hasnt pitched since Sept. 15, when he strained an oblique muscle. Kansas City counters with Ventura (14-10, 3.20), who struggled in the sixth inning of the wild-card game, but possess

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