Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Chris Bosh scored 32 points and pulled down seven rebounds to lead the Toronto Raptors past the Milwaukee Bucks, 106-75, at Air Canada Centre.
Carlos Delfino poured in 18 points for the Raptors, who have won two in a row and four of their last five contests. Andrea Bargnani and Anthony Parker had 13 points apiece.
Toronto's Jose Calderon had 11 points and 12 assists, good for his 14th double-double of the season.
Michael Redd and Charlie Villanueva each dropped 12 points for the Bucks, who have lost seven of their last nine contests. Royal Ivey had 10 points in defeat.
"We won against Indiana yesterday, but we are struggling a little bit," Villanueva said. "We are just finding our identity. We still don't know what kind of team we are. I don't know if we have found that yet."
Two Parker buckets, with a Delfino trey sandwiched in between, opened up a 47-39 Toronto lead with just under a minute before the half. Though, Ivey drained a three-pointer to pull Milwaukee within five heading into its locker room.
Bosh had 19 first-half points.
The Raptors held their five-point lead for much of the third frame, until a Parker jumper sparked a 23-3 Toronto run. The burst lasted for almost seven minutes and gave the Raptors a 76-51 advantage. At one point in the surge the Raptors scored 19 consecutive points, which is the most all season.
"We knew they might have been tired from playing the night before and we just wanted to take it to them," Bosh said. "We wanted to play good defense and turn that into our offensive points."
Ivey then hit two free throws, but Calderon drained a three with 0.9 seconds left to give Toronto a 79-53 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
The Raptors opened a 27-point lead, 84-57, on a Delfino jumper with 10:19 left on the clock.
The Bucks managed to trim their deficit to 23 points, 89-66, on an Ivey jump shot with just under seven minutes left. The Raptors answered with a 9-2 run that gave Toronto a 98-68 lead. Bargnani drained a trey from the right wing that capped the run with 4:15 left in play.
Calderon's botched three-point attempt with five seconds left caromed off the rim and into the hands of Nesterovic, who coasted in for the layup to give Toronto a 23-20 lead after the first 12 minutes.
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