Arsenalist
December 2002 is when it began and more than four years later it ended. A 15 game losing streak to the Bulls barely came to an end at the United Center. The Raptors outplayed the Bulls for the considerable part of the game but the lack of defense on either end, especially on the Raptors’,…
bosh is killing lately. Okur, man he’s a dangerous big man, because he can bang under the basket and he kills from three point range. his game is so much like bill laimbeer from the old school pistons. the team with vinnie the microwave johnson. lol. man i wish you could have seen this dude…
Looking at a halftime scoreline of 66-54 in favor of the Raptors, two things pop into my mind. Scoring 66 points and shooting 70% is great but conceding 54 points to the Clippers at home doesn’t say much about the strength of the Raptors defense. Besides that instance of the glass being half-empty, the Raptors…
While Toronto was dominating Atlanta in the first half, a few hundred miles away New Jersey was getting stomped by the Orlando. The difference in the two games was the Hawks mustered what resembled a little like a challenge while the Nets kept getting trampled. A total team effort with Mo Peterson and Chris Bosh…
The warning signs were all over the wall. I was weary after the Bobcats game and with good reason because the Raptors have major difficulty stopping teams that decide to drive on every single possession. So when the Hornets came in to town on a back-to-back and losers of 10 of 11 on the road,…
I was at this game and it’s the best place to check out the offensive sets and assign the blame correctly when things go wrong. So what I say carries merit. It’s also hard to criticize Chris Bosh because he puts up the numbers like tonight, but if I had to pick some people who…
I remember when the Philly games used to be something to look forward to. You had Iverson, Aaron McKie, Tyrone Hill and Eric Snow to contend with and it was always a nervous affair. It’s one of the few rivalries the Raptors actually had; it originated when the Raptors lost to Philadelphia on Vince Carter’s…
It’s too bloody painful to think about this game, let alone recap it, but since I’ve undertaken the task of keeping a Raptor blog, duty calls. Nowitzki willed Mavs through The problem with the Raptors isn’t that they can’t play defense, the problem is they can’t do it for more than 25 minutes a game.…
Despite Boston suiting nine players with no starter over the age of 22, the Celts managed to trouble the Raptors long enough to cast doubts over the mental makeup of the Raptors team. A painful and miserable Raptors effort for the majority of the contest saw them give Boston every opportunity to pull this game…
The most important thing to note in this game was that the Bucks were missing major contributors in Michael Redd, Charlie Villanueva, Bobby Simmons and Maurice Williams. So when the Raptors walked in to the Bradley Center, they knew they had a good chance to come out with a win, a perfect response to the…
Vince had 32 to make up for his bad game in TorontoI didn’t expect the Raptors to win this game. Playing in New Jersey against an under-pressure Nets team that just got swept in a home-and-home by the Cavs, the Raptors weren’t going to be allowed to win this game. The Nets simply aren’t that…
Based on The Score’s three minute intro to the game which consisted entirely of Gilbert Arenas hitting game winners, throwing down jams and hitting fadeaways, I thought the Raps were in for a let down. But the NBA’s second leading scorer didn’t seem to rattle anybody in a Raptors uniform this afternoon, and if anything,…