Once the Toronto Raptors started running, the Philadelphia 76ers could not slow them down.
Alvin Williams and a host of reserves led a second-quarter assault and the Raptors rarely relented in a 100-85 over the Philadelphia 76ers, who suffered their fifth straight road loss.
Williams had 14 points and 13 assists and did a credible job on NBA scoring leader Allen Iverson, who managed just 18 points on 7-of-23 shooting before sitting down for good midway through the third quarter.
Williams handed out 11 assists in the first half, when Toronto raced to a 63-39 lead and made the 76ers look like the Eastern Conference's worst team rather than its best. He scored eight points in a 29-3 second-quarter run during which the Raptors repeatedly beat the defensive-minded Sixers downcourt for dunks and layups.
"We've wanted to push the ball more and more by controlling the ball," Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens said. "It allowed us to push the ball upcourt and we hit our shots."
"I haven't been in a game where a team had 35 points on the fast break in the first half, plus they had 22 assists and only one turnover," Sixers coach Larry Brown said. "They manhandled us. We took bad shots and we didn't guard. Everybody on their team made a significant contribution."
Reserves Keon Clark and Chris Childs scored 11 points apiece and also were in the middle of the explosion in the second quarter that gave Toronto a 59-33 lead. The Raptors also got a spark from backup forward Jerome Williams, who scored six points in the period.
"Alvin distributed the ball really well and I thought Chris and Alvin played well together," Wilkens said. "When you run and push the ball, you get into a rhythm. Guys were catching the ball and making shots."
"Everyone had energy tonight," Clark added. "It wasn't just myself or Jerome coming off the bench. ... Tonight was the smoothest offense we had all year. Nobody was forcing or rushing anything. We still need to be consistent."
Vince Carter scored 26 points for the Raptors, who never trailed and defeated the Sixers for the third consecutive time, becoming the only team thus far to take the season series from Philadelphia.
"They hit shots and we just did a bad job," Iverson said. "They outhustled us, and we rarely get outhustled."
The Raptors (41-33) won for the fifth time in six games and moved one game ahead of Orlando for sixth place in the East.
The Sixers (51-23) have lost seven of their last 10 games and fell one game behind San Antonio for the league's best record. The magic number for clinching their first Atlantic Division title since 1990 remained three.
Iverson's layup gave Philadelphia a 30-30 tie with 9:46 left in the second quarter before Toronto's onslaught began with consecutive fast-break dunks by Carter and Antonio Davis.
A jumper by Childs made it 40-30 with 7:46 remaining before a free throw by Philadelphia's Tyrone Hill only briefly slowed the deluge.
For the next five minutes, Williams thwarted Iverson at one end and scored or set up teammates at the other. Dunks by Clark and Jerome Williams preceded a 3-pointer by Childs that capped the explosion at 59-33 with 2:33 to go. Philadelphia called three timeouts during the burst.
"I thought we played good team defense, especially on Iverson," Alvin Williams said. "The guys were making shots and as a point guard, it made my job easier. They asked me to stick him (Iverson) and I did my best to make his shots difficult."
Any chance the Sixers had of getting back into the game ended when the Raptors scored the first 11 points of the third quarter, opening their largest lead at 74-39 on a tip-in by former Sixer Eric Montross with 8:39 left. Brown emptied his bench shortly thereafter.
Montross was a surprise starter for Charles Oakley, who was suspended one game by the NBA for hitting Sixers forward Tyrone Hill with a thrown basketball during Tuesday's shootaround. Montross had season highs of six points and 11 rebounds.
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The Philadelphia 76ers never lost track of Vince Carter, but the Toronto Raptors did.
The 76ers held Carter scoreless for the first 10 minutes of the fourth quarter as they rallied for a 104-98 victory over the Raptors in their home opener.
Allen Iverson scored 24 points for Philadelphia, which defeated Toronto for the sixth straight time. But it was fellow guards Eric Snow and Aaron McKie and forward George Lynch who shut down the explosive Carter.
"We got it done and got stops when we needed to," Lynch said. "Everybody wants to see Vince do something spectacular. We're a defensive team and we don't want to see our teammates get embarrassed. We play well together, we help each other out and that's what it's going to take to win. We're not going to let somebody come in and have a big night against us. We just look out for one another."
Carter scored 25 points but just four in the final period, when the Raptors went scoreless for over five minutes. He did not score in the fourth quarter until making a tough drive with 1:45 left that cut the deficit to 93-89.
"Other people were scoring," Carter said. "You have to go the hot man. It's not all about me. It's a team thing."
Toronto never got any closer as Theo Ratliff and Iverson hit baskets and Philadelphia sank 7-of-8 free throws in the final minute to improve to 2-0. The Sixers were 7-of-12 from the line through three quarters and 12-of-16 in the final period.
Carter made his first six shots but was just 3-of-13 thereafter. In the fourth quarter, he was 1-of-6 as the Raptors could not get him untracked, instead going inside to Antonio Davis, who scored nine of his 18 points in the fourth quarter.
"They were in the penalty so that's just smart basketball," Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens said. "They were in the foul trouble and the penalty and Antonio delivered for us. I wanted to go at them and have the other guys be patient."
"The biggest thing right now is trying to understand each other down the stretch," Carter said. "Sometimes, we're trying to think for the other person, and we have a lot of mixups. In due time it will get better."
In addition to slowing down Carter, Snow scored 16 points, McKie added 11 and Lynch grabbed nine rebounds.
Tyrone Hill had 12 points and 10 rebounds and Toni Kukoc scored 11 off the bench for Philadelphia. Mark Jackson had 16 points and 12 assists and Kevin Willis scored 12 points for Toronto.
"I've always said that it's going to be better for the team if we get five of six guys involved," Kukoc said. "We are playing good basketball right now. It's early, but if we continue to play like this, it's going to be good for us."
"It's been a total team effort," Iverson said. "A lot of people have said that we can't win a championship unless I do it by myself. They hear stuff like that and feed off it. No one feels better than me seeing those guys do what they do on the court."
The Raptors cut a six-point deficit to 75-73 entering the fourth quarter and a jump hook by Willis gave them their first lead since the second quarter at 81-79 with 9:20 to play.
But Toronto went scoreless for the next 5:06, missing eight straight shots. Iverson and Hill each had two baskets in a 9-0 spurt that gave Philadelphia an 88-81 lead with 4:35 remaining.
"We had some really good shots and we missed them," Wilkens said. "We just could not make a shot in that one stretch. They were good shots and the ball just didn't go down for us."
Davis made three jumpers around two free throws by Iverson to pull Toronto within 90-87 with 2:57 left. But McKie answered with a three-point play 50 seconds later before Carter finally scored.
The Sixers shot 48 percent (41-of-85) and limited Toronto to 45 percent (39-of-86). They blocked 10 shots, five by center Theo Ratliff.
Carter came out on fire, scoring 15 points on 6-of-6 shooting in the first quarter. His 3-pointer gave Toronto a 31-21 lead late in the period.
Trailing 43-36, the Sixers went on a 16-2 burst that featured points from six players, including three from Nazr Mohammed. The reserve center played only in garbage time in Tuesday's 101-72 win at New York.
Snow's basket made it 52-45 with 2:16 left and Philadelphia held a 59-53 advantage at halftime.
"It was hard to keep the focus," Iverson said. "We went down a little bit, then we brought ourselves back up and were able to win the game. That's the most important thing, regardless of how sloppy the game was."
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A decade ago, Kobe Bryant torched Sam Mitchell's Toronto Raptors for 81 points. Ever since, Mitchell has smoldered, boiling over at the very mention of Bryant's name or that game, a subject that has been broached innumerable times, the sorest of sore spots on Mitchell's coaching résumé.
So before Mitchell, now the coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, faced Bryant one final time Tuesday, it wasn't surprising when he offered up next to nothing about the Los Angeles Lakers icon who is retiring at the end of this season, his 20th."Everybody has good players," Mitchell said when asked about facing Bryant.
And when asked about Bryant's scoring barrage on that fateful January night in 2006, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history, Mitchell glared for a beat.
"Can y'all ask me something [else]?" he asked, looking around the media scrum that surrounded him. "I think I've answered that question for the last five years enough."
What happened next almost felt inevitable.
Of course, Bryant lit up a Mitchell-coached team one final time, scoring a season-high 38 points in a 119-115 Lakers win that ended a 10-game losing streak, helping the Lakers avoid setting a record for the longest skid in franchise history.
In 33 vintage minutes, with a leather-lunged Staples Center crowd roaring as if happy days were here again, Bryant made 7-of-11 from beyond the arc, his most 3-pointers since hitting nine of them in March 2008 against Memphis.
He made 10-of-21 from the field all told and sank 11-of-12 from the free throw line.