Arsenalist
The thing about TJ Ford is you never know which one will show up. In case you haven’t noticed, there are too kinds of TJ Fords, one is a true point guard that can break the defense down with unstoppable dribble penetration and find open teammates when help comes. This TJ Ford also has the…
So much for those early afternoon starts giving the Raptors a decided advantage over any opposition playing them on a Sunday afternoon. This game technically started at 12PM considering DST but I guess the Sonics weren’t partying out last night since they came to play. Ray Allen was in the gym at 8AM working on…
Didn’t have a chance to watch this game but caught chunks of it on radio so I was at the mercy of Paul Jones when trying to understand what exactly was going on. After the Arsenal defeat, things are in a bit of a daze but as I was drifting in and out of consciousness,…
The only good news coming out of tonight is that New Jersey lost. Thats it. End of story. It’s games like these that make you test your resolve to maintain a Toronto Raptors blog so here goes. A back-to-back game on the road after a tough loss is a tough proposition, now add to the…
I’m going to write this post the way the Raptors played this game – sloppy. Bargnani gets to play tonight because his flight got canceled because of the weather but he’ll miss the Cleveland game and fly home to Italy. This reminds of the time Vince Carter chose to graduate on the day of Game…
As a basketball fan living in Toronto, there’s always competition against those lowly Leafs when it comes to TV screens in bars and restaurants. But I’ve managed to scout out a few places where to possibly watch basketball. Some of them are great and some are just good enough: St. Louis Bar & Grill: The…
Glad to see the Raptors put the Spurs nightmare behind them, that was as much a game to forget as this one was to remember. No Anthony Parker as he was still recovering after the Bruce Bowen cheap shot so Mo Pete was in the starting lineup. But the stars of the game in order…
Marty York is a stain on professional journalism, there is no doubt about that. Nobody respects his opinion or bothers to give him a decent interview and that probably explains why he’s lingering deep in the shadows of insignificance and covering the CFL on a full-time basis. He’s a disgrace to journalists everywhere and the…
A game like this is hard to stomach under any circumstances but when the pain is compounded by those stupid Oh Henry commercials, things quickly deteriorate to unbearable and eventually into unwatchable. The Law of Averages had already scheduled this game as one for the loss column but even I was surprised when the result…
I cheered for Fred Jones every time he was in the game. I practically begged God for his jumpers to go in but even He couldn’t do much about it. The writing was on the wall and when Mitchell played Fred Jones for a whopping six minutes against Cleveland, I thought he was giving him…
It wasn’t completely miserable and it was almost watchable. Given the pathetic quality and composition of All-Star Saturday Night for the last 7 years, this was, we can safely say, not the worst. But there were elements of what the worst All-Star Saturday Night might have had. Some portions of the telecast were moderately entertaining…
These Vince Carter returns are getting a little boring. The crowd wasn’t as great as the last time but an interesting moment early on: With Bosh on the line and the crowd chanting MVP, Carter smirked and pretty much rolled his eyes at the chants, here’s the video. Aside from the return of Carter, this…