“You just can’t blame it on the players. You’d have to really sit down and talk to the players and just ask them why they want to leave,” he said. “I’m just a random guy, Chris is an all-star, other guys are all-stars too. You’d have to ask them, what’s the reason they left?”
They have six guys who are essentially the same player: athletic players who would best be sixth men on a serious team. Their “big” star, Andre Bargnani, is at best Dirk Nowitzki Light on the rare occasions where he is engaged.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping. It was the f*#%$g C*%#$!s.
What have we learned so far? Not much, just that the Raptors are NOT going to be the league's worst defensive team and that they actually give a sh*t.
It took 2 overtimes, Bargnani waking up, Jack and Barbosa scoring like machines, but the Raptors beat the Sixers at home.
What the fans saw on Wednesday was a big question mark, an uncertainty that isn’t likely to provide any more clarity when the Celtics visit on Friday or when Hedo Turkoglu makes his return on Sunday with his Phoenix Suns and Steve Nash.
The jumper-happy Raptors got taught a lesson in Chicago by a very good team. Nights like these could be all too common this season.
Pre-season rolls along with the Raptors in Chicago tonight, it's an 8PM start with no local TV but Comast Sports is carrying the game in Chicago which means there will be a stream. Not sure what the point of the team having it's own TV station is if they can't broadcast their own games when…
“I won’t be surprised if we end up with one guy averaging 16 or 17 a game and a bunch of guys at 14, 13.”
“Shootaround’s a lot tougher than in the past,” said Reggie Evans, the eighth-year NBA forward. “We’re just going hard. A lot of banging. It’s totally different than anything I’ve seen.”
A good effort by the Raptors in Boston fails to net them a win over their division-rivals, but there were positives to be taken from this one.
The Raptors are in Boston tonight and the only question for this game is whether we'll beat that ungodly team by 55 or 65.