MILWAUKEE—It was a word Dwane Casey doesn’t toss around to often but it was an apt description for Jonas Valanciunas here Friday night.

“Masterful,” the Raptors coach said.

With perhaps his best quarter of the season in what was perhaps the team’s best quarter, Valanciunas was a shot-making, shot-blocking flurry, turning a close game into a rout and offering a reminder that the seven-foot Lithuanian can do some damage.

Valanciunas had 20 third-quarter points — one more than the entire Milwaukee team in the same period — as the Raptors went on to drub the Bucks 129-110 at the Bradley Center to extend their latest win streak to four games.

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“He was masterful as far as getting position, using his size and strength in the paint and just doing a good job of rebounding the ball, old school, going to get the ball, rebounding, putting it back and getting and-ones,” Casey said of Valanciunas, who had only played five minutes in the first half because of quick foul trouble.

But with the Bucks unable to handle his physical presence, he made his first five shots of the quarter and could not be stopped.

The 20 points were only two off the franchise record for a quarter, held by Kyle Lowry.

“I don’t look for special motivation, I’m always motivated to play hard,” Valanciunas said. “That’s what I did in the third quarter. I was just going, trying to find the rhythm, trying to find the flow. I did it. I had good passes from teammates. My job is to finish.”

He and DeMar DeRozan, who had 14 points in the quarter, led Toronto to a 43-point outburst that stretched a two-point halftime lead into a 26-point bulge that made the fourth quarter meaningless.

“The ball was finding him,” DeRozan said of Valanciunas. “In moments like that, if you’re playing well, no matter who it is, the ball is going to find you. It found him, and he fed off of that. When we missed, he got put-backs and got it going.”

It was the second win in less than a week for Toronto over Milwaukee and carried none of the drama of Monday’s overtime affair. And it took away any suggestion that there’s a budding rivalry between the teams that met in a tense playoff series last spring.

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“I think we just played them in the playoffs and now once this season,” Lowry said before the game. “Five games, six games don’t make it a rivalry.”

Serge Ibaka led Toronto with 21 points, DeRozan finished with 20 and Lowry had 15 with six rebounds and four assists. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 24 for Milwaukee.

The Bucks didn’t do a lot differently in defending DeRozan than they did Monday, when he blitzed them for a franchise-record 52 points, but they did do it better.

Aggressive traps and double-teams turned DeRozan into more of a facilitator and he had only six field-goal attempts in the first half before he caught fire in the third quarter.

“DeMar is going to get attention every single night,” Lowry said. “This was just a good team win. I think we had seven guys in double figures tonight. That’s pretty impressive, especially considering the team we beat. That’s a good, good team. They are really talented. This was a good win for us.”

It wasn’t a surprise that the Bucks would be better against one of the top scorers in the league given how recently they had been burned by him.

“They definitely weren’t going to come in and let him get 52 again and we knew that,” Casey said. “Right off the bat, they were double-teaming, committing two to the ball and I thought he did a good job of passing it out.”

The adjustments the Raptors made were to get an explosive offensive game out of Ibaka, who had 17 of his points in the first half, and Lowry, who was playing without the wraps he had on both hands Wednesday night in Chicago.

But it wasn’t his wrist that was bothering him, a worry for some fans after wrist surgery derailed his 2016-17 season.

“Nah, it’s my fingers,” he said. “They’re sore, man. Just jamming them, getting them caught up in jerseys. They are pretty sore and swollen.

“It’s a long season. You always have something wrong with you. It’s just how you manage it and maintain it.”

Lowry maintained it well enough to make four three-pointers in just 27 minutes as he and the starters got most of the fourth quarter off.

“Everybody’s got a nick or something throughout the NBA,” Casey said. “I guarantee Giannis has got something bothering him that he’s not telling anybody about. If (Lowry’s) out here in uniform, he’s ready to roll.”

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