Point guard Jose Calderon, who has been chided for being too careful with the ball at times, is starting to look for -- and find -- one of his athletic young swingmen on backdoor cuts along the baseline for lobs that turn into momentum-changing dunks.

It's a far cry from trying to throw the same pass to the likes of Jason Kapono and Anthony Parker a year ago, two serviceable wings but hardly the kind of high-fliers that DeRozan and Weems are.

"These are two guys that can go get the ball up there, and it's easier," said Calderon. "I talk to them and say, 'Look, look here when I go that way, your defender is going to be looking at the ball so just go there, go backdoor.'"

With a game coming up Wednesday in Charlotte, where Stephen Jackson and Gerald Wallace are at least the athletic equal of the two Raptors, it will be interesting to see if Toronto can pull the play off.

It often depends on the attention span of the defender.

"It teaches whatever team we're playing to play solid defense," said Weems. "Now they have to be more aware of me or DeMar because dunks like that get the crowd into it, and once the crowd's into it, the team gets into it and it just creates havoc for the other team."

RAPTORS 123, PACERS 112: Toronto scored a season-high 74 points in the first half and cruised to an easy win. Seven players ended up in double figures for Toronto as Jose Calderon led the way with 21 points. The Raptors shot 56 percent from the field and 50 percent from 3-point range.