So, I’m not going to go ahead and make a big ol’ stinkin’ deal about finally beating a team with a plus .500 record… although I’m not the only one who felt an extra tingle out of knocking that smarmy stoner grin off T-Mac’s baby face. On a night where Bosh’s return was enough to…
Some days, I get to work and can’t stop yawning. Or I’ve got a song stuck on ‘repeat one’ in my head (this was in my head for most of 03-04) until noon. It happens, especially this time of year. Some days, you just lay an egg. Wannabe’s, amateurs, professionals, even the great ones. It’s…
Does Pizza Pizza hate Jesus? Well, if Jesus is a Raptors fan (we know he’s a Spurs guy), then the answer is yes. For those who don’t live in Ontario, Pizza Pizza is an Ontario franchise that offers to redeem Raptors tickets for a free slice if they score 100 points. It’s cardboardy goodness, Canadian style. To all the sliceophiles…
If that’s a typical Charlotte game, then the Bobcat Bet is doomed. 33% from the field? Felton, Richardson, and Wallace going 7-38 (including Felton’s puketastic 0-8)? Those names might as well be Robinson, Marbury, and Crawford, ’cause that’s Knicks-level futility. Sam Vincent’s go-to play is even more pathetic than Sam Mitchell’s: The isolation jumpshot led…
Forgive me tonight, I’m giddy. By the end of this read, you will be too. I found my favorite website of all time (keep reading! It’s worth it!) because of this game, and that title should read 9-8.5. We dominated half of those 48. But in a late game critical possession, the ball does not…
One of the perks of grinding it out in the office working 60-hour weeks is that sometimes your boss hands you courtside seats. I wouldn’t know, ‘cause I’m a “less is more” type of guy, but thanks to my buddy Carps’ relentless corporate droning, I got to peep the Cavs courtside. Not ‘Mini Me’ courtside,…
This teeter-totter’s making me nauseous. But a win’s a win’s a win, even against the NBA equivalent of Glass Joe, seen below mimicking the Chicago Bulls’ 4th quarter. What a mess. Where do you start? When you play like a disinterested rec league team down by 20, it’s more than lack of effort – it’s…
The Raptors have a habit of ‘hanging around’ winnable games, unable to drive nails into the coffins of lesser teams. Well, you can’t hang around when you’re playing against Lebron – he’ll string you up by your shoelaces and leave you for dead, swaying from the rafters like a worked-over punching bag. LeBeast devoured us…
No time for a regular size post today. So here goes Dino-lite (hopefully still Dino-mite!) 1. Did anyone else get a deja-vu feeling when we almost let the lead slip away in the fourth…twice? Lucky for us, Pau looked less interested in stealing a victory than he did in getting home to catch the end…
At first, it’s way too easy. All you do is grab her ass as she walks past the dance floor, and within minutes she’s buying you drinks. The conversation flows casually, everything you say is funny. To make things even better, she doesn’t have a case of Hot Girl/Ugly Laugh Syndrome. Out of the gates,…
Well, good for us. We took one down at home, most of our players returned to form/showed us why we pay them at all, and it wasn’t mind-numbingly mundane. Our season record continues to teeter-totter. And so it goes. Some* game notes followed by some key learnings: * Actually, there’s a fair bit. If you’re…
I spent Saturday night nestled in the bosom of Lake Simcoe, where the internet joins leprechauns and black people as things they only have on TV. But the TV says we won,and since the TV has a long and proud history of never telling a lie, I’m inclined to believe we’re back above .500. Feels…