{"id":953248,"date":"2026-10-31T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:38:12","slug":"barnes-has-career-high-41-points-but-frustrated-by-raptors-loss-lack-of-foul-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953248\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes has career-high 41 points but frustrated by Raptors’ loss, lack of foul calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Does Scottie Barnes<\/a> care about setting personal records or reaching milestones? Well, it depends on the time of year.<\/p>\n

Barnes scored a career-high 41 points and added five rebounds and five assists as the Toronto Raptors<\/a> fell to the Orlando Magic<\/a> 121-114 on Friday in their first NBA Cup game of the season. Barnes said that in the immediate aftermath of the loss he didn\u2019t particularly care about his new single-game points high.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, no. I think I\u2019ve got to let some time go by. I think that, for sure, before the season I think I wanted to break that,\u201d said Barnes. \u201cBut it\u2019s just about trying to be aggressive. I think I did a great job going downhill, being aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of Barnes\u2019s frustration on the night was that despite making 34 field-goal attempts – many of them as he drove to the net – he only drew three free throws. The Magic as a whole were awarded 29 free throws while Toronto had 15. <\/p>\n

\u201cDefinitely think I could have got to the free-throw line more,\u201d said Barnes. \u201cI think being that aggressive, only shooting three free throws is kind of crazy.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut no, it just wasn\u2019t going our way. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barnes was asked directly if he thought it was harder for the Raptors to get fouled. After a long pause, he answered with a chuckle.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to have good P.R. today,\u201d said Barnes, smiling at a nearby member of Toronto\u2019s communications team. \u201cIt\u2019s tough out there. Like I said, we\u2019re trying to be as aggressive as we can. I think they\u2019re being aggressive as they can. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s enough for me to say. I\u2019m raging on the inside right now, but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Head coach Darko Rajakovic was willing to be more direct in his post-game news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, a player that gets three foul shots in a game, who scores 41 points and goes to the free-throw line three times, that\u2019s kind of B.S., to be honest with you,\u201d said Rajakovic. \u201cThey got to the free-throw line 29 times. We got to the free-throw line 15 times, and I don\u2019t think that we\u2019re more physical or a more aggressive team than them. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that both teams played really aggressive, good basketball, and I think that criteria should be the same on both ends of the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the 16th game of Barnes\u2019s career where he had 30-plus points, five rebounds and five assists. That tied DeMar DeRozan<\/a> for fourth most in Raptors\u2019 history.<\/p>\n

Starting centre Jakob Poeltl<\/a> had by far his best game of the season. He entered play on Friday averaging 2.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game, but finished with 12 points, 11 rebounds and three assists against Orlando.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t really care about the numbers,\u201d sad Poeltl. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really matter to me if I at the end of game have 10 points, 10 rebounds, or if I have like two points and four rebounds, like whatever, as long as we\u2019re winning the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 31, 2026.<\/p>\n

John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Does Scottie Barnes care about setting personal records or reaching milestones? Well, it depends on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-953248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}