Your analysis of the NBA game is meaningless ‘outsight’, and not worth spit. Take your pusillanimous, pedantic comments and jerk off elsewhere. – by FAQ
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The umbrage is yours to take. Do with it what you will.

Vitriol and Accuracy are rarely compatible.

My preference is for the latter.

FAQ says:

Well, at least we got rid of TJ Ford, ha?
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Flux … have you never played on a bball team where the hotshot player didn’t know what to do once the ball was out of his hands? These types of players can only think bball when they are holding the ball, and without the ball they vanish.

I focused on TJ, and he just stood there without the ball and was preparing himself to get the ball back into his hands. No cutting, no setting picks, nothing, just thinking “me me me”. He was flashy when the play broke down and he tried to do his thing, but overall he sucked. His upper body was weak and it showed in his laborious attempts to pass the ball.

Bosh is a different case, and I empathize with him because I was in his same situation when I played. All he can do is wait for the PG to bring up the ball and deliver it to him as he fights to post up. He’s helpless and hopeless without the ball on offense, and it shows. Once he gets the ball, the offense goes terminal. Players don’t even bother to fight for offensive rebounds when Bosh lofts his 20-foot jump shots. Why bother?!

Utah Jazz showed us how the game of bball should be played, and they shredded the hapless Raptors on offense and defense. The Raptors have no offensive system worthy of the NBA, and their defense is incompetent as essentially stated by Jack Armstrong.

Good things take care of themselves .. it’s the bad things we must confront.

IMO, #61 lacks insight into the mechanics of the NBA game.

I take umbrage at your snotty, uppity comment about my understanding of the game of basketball. I played bball at a higher level, and I have a ‘feel’ for the game … as opposed to your assletic analysis sitting on your fat butt and masterbating over past statistics … you puffed up putz.

Your analysis of the NBA game is meaningless ‘outsight’, and not worth spit. Take your pusillanimous, pedantic comments and jerk off elsewhere.

When the Raptors are perceived to be on the upswing and to be conducting their affairs in a first-class manner, in the Toronto market, they become a preferred destination for a HIGH END player in the NBA; any High End player, regardless where he’s from and/or what his individual background might be.

The Highest End players, at this level of competition, care most about “Winning Championships” and “Playing the Game” the “Right Way” [not necessarily in that order either.

The Great Bill Russell showed us this several generations ago, as did Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and most importantly Paul Pierce last season.

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Some individuals have a lot to say … because they have a lot to say. Not everybody fits into the same category. Based on my experience, this is how the world works. Whether I prefer it this way, or not, is quite immaterial. : )

Chris Bosh is not the problem with the Raptors.

Chris Bosh has always been, is now, and will continue to be for a long period of time into the future, a first-rate NBA player.

Do not confuse the baby with the bath water.

Keeping TJ Ford would not have fixed the problem[s].

Keeping Mr. Ford would have only exacerbated the problem[s].

IMO, #61 lacks insight into the mechanics of the NBA game.

As does this statement you just made:

Sloan’s system kills and don’t give me any Jazz’s superior talent crap – its in the execution.

It’s not one or the other, at this level of competition.

It’s BOTH … and, then, so MUCH MORE on top of THAT.

“The problem I see with the Raptors is their dependence on Bosh, and when Bosh gets the ball, the rest of the team just stops .. stops running and stops thinking. They just stand there and wait for Bosh to do his thing.”

Well, at least we got rid of TJ Ford, ha?

2006 was our chance to rebuild and we screw that up. Stern giftwraps a #1 Pick, we have 20 mill in capspace, Bosh, Villanova and Calderon.

Colangelo is a born salesman and does not know what he is doing. How the hell do you miss Brandon Roy? Can you not fucking see he was going to be a star? How do you sign Kapono who cant do anything? How do you draft a player with a heart condition? Why would you waste money on no talent bums in the Euroleague when you could have aquire athletic talent through the draft? Stick to your Job as GQ Editor.

Fucking Dummy.

With the whole free agent thing, we haven’t been in existence for very long and have never had a really good team, therefore this team has never been an appealing destination.

This season is looking very bad thus far………….BC may have to suck it up and trade bargs/calderon for a wing player.

4. but there is always hope in the feeelings of the tribal honkers who call themselves “fans”. – by FAQ
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1. The State of the Union is the responsibility of the organization’s Leader, in this case, the Raptors’ President/GM.

2. Time will tell.

3. The state of the team’s [i] athleticism and [ii] bball IQ is the responsiblity of the GM.

4. What type of Raptors fan might you happen to call yourself?

The Raptors have not jelled, and they are essentially playing one-man bball … with each player trying to do their thing and badly.

The problem I see with the Raptors is their dependence on Bosh, and when Bosh gets the ball, the rest of the team just stops .. stops running and stops thinking. They just stand there and wait for Bosh to do his thing.

Teams are no longer double teaming Bosh because they know Bosh holds the ball too long and that ices the rest of the team. I played on a team like that and I really didn’t care what our ‘all-star’ was going to do and I just ran around and jumped occasionally. One-man play tore the guts out of the team and the stupid coach didn’t understand what was happening. We lost a lot.

The Raptors are incapable of stringing together three passes because they don’t have an offensive system like the Jazz have, and it was a delight to watch the Jazz moving the ball. Even the Jazz bench played like the starters, because they were trained into a system and are intelligent enough to adjust for results. The Raptors get stuck at Bosh and everything stops and then they scramble.

Sam Mitchell left the Raptors in a pathetic state. I hope they can organize themselves under Triano, but I suspect the lack of athleticism and low bball IQ will hurt the team .. but there is always hope in the feeelings of the tribal honkers who call themselves “fans”.

The elements were here back then to build a first rate NBA team, in the Toronto market, which eventually would have been able to put together an extended run at the top end of the Eastern Conference.

Likewise, in Feb/2006, when MLSE made the decision to hire Bryan Colangelo and the team was fortunate enough to move up in the NBA Draft Lottery to the No. 1 [Overall] Selection.

Opportunities Lost … that might not ever come again. : (

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7:00 mark of the 4th quarter … Tor 71, Uta 100

There’s an awful lot of work to do now.

It’s a good thing they don’t even have Boozer out there because Bosh would be carving him up too.

Since everyone understands that the things that separate an All-Star from a Superstar are that that player can dominate on BOTH ends of the floor, makes his teammates better and rises to the occasion MOST in tough games against good teams when his team desperately needs a leader and a win…
..yep…Bosh sure fits that bill….

Only in a weak-ass mediocrity-submerged hell-hole like Canada could Bosh’s pass for the sort of dominance that can carry a team.

Everyone just keep babbling about the irrelevant fact that Triano is a fucking Canadian…because that will make all the difference in the world as to whether this collection of weaklings, chokers and no-talent non-athletes can compete without embarrassing themselves.

Keep listening to the increasingly sleazy Colangelo persist in calling this team “deep”…and bullshit about interest from other teams about these losers.

You just keep believing because people TELL you.

…anyone who ever said anything positive about the goddamn O’Neal trade…THIS is the scenario YOU asked for.

Get ready for this team to be humiliated by Portland and Cleveland as well….

Get ready for OKC and their chance for a victory when they play the Craptors, “superstar” MVP and all.

When you look at these two line-ups:

Deron Williams vs Jose Calderon
Ronnie Brewer vs Anthony Parker
Kyle Korver vs Jason Kapono
Mehmet Okur vs Andrea Bargnani
Andrei Kirilenko vs Chris Bosh

[the 10 players on the floor at the end of the 2nd quarter]

and you think the major problems are rooted in the individual players “poor habits” or the group’s collectively “poor habits” … rather than the less-than NBA quality athleticism and skills of the players on the Raptors’ roster vs the Jazz’s … then you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Likewise, when Leo Rautins says that Sam Mitchell had lost his team’s attention over the last few weeks … it is simply a case of another Raptors’ broadcaster not knowing what he’s talking about, in this specific instance.

The performance of this team, this season, SHOULD ALWAYS have been squarely on the shoulders of Mr. Bryan Colangelo.