Every competition? last time I checked the USA won the gold in the Olympics.

Sure, other countries have had some success lately, but that’s not because they are better, only because the US was in disarray for a bit and Spain and Argentina has managed to have multiple players come out at the same time. Tell me who they got now.. as Manu and gang and Jose and gang will not be playing much loneger? The US will dominate again.. so the foreign success is what’s a fluke.

As for Joey the brat: instead of europeans why dont you tell colangelo to draft canadian players :) its north america aint it?

why not draft you? your so smart and ball savy.. there is a reason for everything kid… if you took off your rose glasses maybe you’d noticed that europeans or argentinians are beating americans in every ball competition for 8 years now.

Last time I checked raptors succes with all american team there was none and you had Damon, Vince Mcgrady, Oakley etc.
That year they won the conference, Parker Jose and Bargnani from Europe were big part of it. And btw I dont get why do you have only canadian team in the league with no canadians on it, thats pure BS… its an imported american team, something like NFL with Bills in TO.

If you consider that being “eternally optimistic”, that’s fine.

I consider it being realistic.

Though it might be difficult to believe, the FACT IS … Sam Mitchell was correct when he said that NBA teams do not spend their time teaching their players how to Rebound better during their regular season practices. What the best NBA teams do, instead … is [i] ensure that they acquire players who are good rebounders to begin with [i.e. the GM's job], and then [ii] play those players a lot of minutes in favourable match-up situations in their games [i.e. the coach's job].

For the most … Rebounding effectively, in the NBA, is a personnel issue.

That was a great last play designed by Triano, much better than Mitchell. What a joke ??? Bosh with a dribble drive from the arc, and then almost throwing the ball over the backboard.

On Blake’s 3pt shot he was outside the line, and pushed off on Calderon before he shot. No way to foul him first, and the Ref’s should have called an offensive foul.

As a person, I like Jack a lot.

As a NBA analyst, however, he is nowhere near specific enough to be considered “good” at what he does on these Raptors broadcasts.

e.g. When he speaks of allegedly “poor habits” that the Raptors are displaying, at any given moment in a game, he needs to identify what he’s referring to specifically, what the situation is, and which Raptor he is focusing on as the offending culpret. Without doing these things, what he’s doing here is only muddying the waters further for the Raptors fanbase.

Yeah, Simon..Portland won on a fluke play. Not because they never gave up, not because they kept their composure, not because they kept their cool in the clutch when down by 4, nah man… that’s all luck. Fluke! Boy, I wish you would call the Raps wins flukes.

And the clown act commenting on the game, Leo JackRod Devlin, handing out the Championship after the 1q made me more mad then anything else. WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE GAME YA FREAKING RETARDS!! I am going back old school with the Ipod during games..I can’t take Devlin anymore with his blowing out of proportion a simple layup by someone. Cretin.

Do not compare Bosh to LeBron – don’t compare anyone to LeBron except Kobe.

What happened? A broken play, missed pick, cut.

That pissed me off more than anything all season. Bosh is not a guard, quit it. I’m cool with an iso play if he gets near the bucket but as pointed out hear he can’t get it at the 3 point line and be successful.

If Bargs shows up I wouldn’t worry about the boards. If Jay can get the old Moon back that will help too. But they may be traded next week for a wing so who knows.

Parker showed some pride today.

I hope Jack gets more air time next season. He’s great.

The eternal optimists never seize to amaze me.

arse: what happened with the swearing? to hell with it huh? lol

Calderon
Brandon Roy/Pietris
Rudy Gay/John Salmons
Bosh
Nene/Varajao

Rajon Rondo/Calderon
John Salmons/Peterson
Rudy Gay
Bosh
Pau Gasol

Look at this years draft. Mario Chalmers, Mc Gee, Westbrook, Brook Lopez, OJ Mayo, Our GM couldn’t have swung a deal for one of them? Give me a break. When your general manager and scouts are incompetents, you scout Australia looking for heartless players. Brilliant

Instead of signing all these Euros who have added 0 to our success we could have used that 30 million combined and more on NBA players.

Bargnani over Rudy, Roy, Rondo, Millsap. Oh Boy

Did those losing teams make KG any less of a basketball player? No.

Bosh is deserving of his praise, but look at who he’s surrounded by. No, he can’t create his shot like Kobe or LeBron, but few power forwards can. Look at the defense whenever he gets the ball. The other team stacks five guys into the paint to prevent Bosh from beating them, so what do you expect him to do exactly?

I was at the game today and the biggest thing I got from it is how lame Toronto fans are. It was completely dead and this was a pretty exciting game. People just clap when they’re told to clap, as a team honestly the crowd provides no kind of energy or advantage whatsover. They have no basketball saavy.

Raps fans are nuts. Seriously. No, they didn’t play perfectly but it took a fluke three from Steve Blake on a broken play for Portland (a better team, frankly) to beat them on the first game back from a West Coast roadtrip.

They played hard. The world is not ending. Bosh is not a scrub. Chill.

About JO, the point is simply that regardless of his stats, the man does not produce wins. Period. I mean who really cares about who to blame the loss on, right? THEY lost.

I don’t mean to be a prick but the praise that Bosh gets from the L is incredible. Do they even watch the games or do they simply watch highlights on Sports center and just draw there own conclusions about him? Its not even the coaching here this is common thing as of late. This guy CANNOT produce a win against a quality team with quality players unless there are multiple injuries on there side. The 47 season we went on those 5 game winning streaks because of TJ Ford/Calderon and Nesterovich/Parker. It’s a Fact.

Every God Damn Road Trip we encountered we either go 0-5 or 1-4 and Bosh becomes a liability to the team rather then an asset. Ive seen it for myself as have all of you.

So unless your Miami, Charlotte, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Memphis, you wont see him score 40 points in a game. And under Bosh’s watch, we haven’t won a game in LA, Utah,Denver, Detroit, Houstan, Dallas, in 3 years+ Something to remember

I agree with most of what has been said, but i think it understates the importance o’neal’s presence had on bargs. It allowed him to start from the bench, and develop slowly with a bit less pressure. Also, I thinking (especially judging from today) that O’neal is pretty crucial for rebounds. The reason portland got so many rebounds was becasue of the continual help-defense from our bigs. Everytime that happens, either the opposing big man is left alone or is being guarded by a much smaller player. Thus, I don’t think you could blame oneal for this loss. He played very well altering shots and playing good help defense. What I found is that bosh is not very good fundamentally on defense. I distinctly remember a play when portland ran a high pick and roll, calderon did well to fight under the screen and altridge rolled to the corner. Bosh for no apparent reason decided to jump out and was covering nobody. Blake passed it to altridge for an easy baseline jumper. Thats no good.

Lets not overreact. I think this game was a step in the right direction. Baby Steps.