Month: August 2009
7 ‘plays’ the Raptors should run
38 days till the first pre-season game, 60 days till the season starts. When opening night does come, it’ll be 6 months and 13 days without Raptors basketball. Until then we must survive, we must help each other, support our brethren in this cause and get through each day by holding hands, singing chants, lighting…
Comparing our bench to others
Although there’s ****-all to talk about the show must go on. In the recent Triano interview he said: All of a sudden we’ve got two teams now, we’ve got a starting group and a bench group, though I don’t know who’s in which one. Let me help you out, Jay. Here’s your bench: Jarrett Jack,…
How The Raptors Stack Up Against The Rest Of The Atlantic
After a pitiful 33-49 season, Colangelo replaced two starters, the first five guys off the bench, and 2 of the last 5 at the end of it. Two make things more interesting, we have a “rookie” head-coach who has to integrate all these parts while trying to get this team into the playoffs, and possibly…
Calderon’s role has changed
After Moon, he was my least favorite Raptor of last year. The hand-clapping shot-contests, the purposely made grimaces, his matador defense, the wry smile every time he was asked about his health and just about everything to do with him was flat-out annoying. Everything went wrong with him last year, even his English suffered. But…