Toronto tied the franchise record for regular-season wins with its victory on Sunday. It also reached 47 victories in 2000-01 and 2006-07.
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THE LEAD: Shooting guard DeMar DeRozan had 30 points to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 116-107 win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday afternoon at The Palace. Point guard Kyle Lowry had 28 points and seven assists before fouling out for the Raptors, who have won five of their last six games. Toronto center Jonas Valanciunas added 18 points. Power forward Greg Monroe led the Pistons with 23 points and 10 rebounds and guard Rodney Stuckey had 18 points.
QUOTABLE: "It definitely means a lot. If you really sit down and look at it, that's big, to be tied with the franchise record and have a chance to break it. We've come a long way. A lot of people wouldn't have counted us to be in the position we're in now. It's definitely a credit to our hard work, both the players and the coaching staff."
-- DeRozan on his team tying the franchise record for victories.
THE STAT: 28.6 percent. The league's best offensive rebounding team was strong in that department once again but didn't take full advantage of those opportunities. The Pistons had 21 offensive rebounds but only converted on six of them (28.6 percent). Detroit's 17-5 advantage in second-chance points should have been much larger and those missed putbacks proved costly.
TURNING POINT: Lowry fouled out with 5:51 remaining but the Raptors, who were up by just two points, quickly reeled off six unanswered points. The key basket during that sequence was forward Terrence Ross' lone 3-point make of the game. Toronto led by at least six the rest of the game.
HOT: DeRozan reached the 30-point mark for the 17th time this season, including a 14-point, fourth-quarter blitz. He made 10-of-19 field-goal tries and even knocked down two of his four 3-point attempts, a good percentage for a player who normally shoots 30.1 percent from long range. Perhaps just a valuable was his steady hands. He didn't commit a turnover in 38 minutes.
NOT: Detroit's guards -- Brandon Jennings, Peyton Siva, Rodney Stuckey and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope -- faltered down the stretch. They combined to shoot 3-for-1 from the field in the fourth quarter.
QUOTABLE II: "After all is said and done, we'll go back and look at it. It's really cool. It's something we didn't discuss or shoot for but I'm sure after the season we'll look up on that."
-- Lowry on tying the franchise record for wins.
ROOKIE WATCH: The Pistons used four of their rookies extensively off the bench. Siva had nine points and four assists in 20 minutes; Caldwell-Pope contributed four points in 15 minutes; Gigi Datome failed to score but grabbed four rebounds and added two assists in 13 minutes; and Tony Mitchell had two points, three rebounds and two steals in the first quarter.
NOTABLE: Toronto's 42 first-quarter points were a Raptors' season high for any quarter. ... Mitchell committed four fouls in the first quarter. ... Pistons center Andre Drummond had 14 points and 17 rebounds despite early foul trouble. Drummond's 56 double-doubles ties him with Bill Laimbeer for the second most by a Piston since the 1984-85 season. Isiah Thomas had 65 that season. ... Pistons forward Josh Smith missed his fourth consecutive game with left patella tendinitis. ... Toronto forward Landry Fields did not make the trip because of flu-like symptoms. ... The Pistons went 17-24 at home this season. They have finished at least five games below .500 at home in three of the last five seasons. ... Toronto swept the season series for the first time since the 2009-10 season.
