The “told you it wasn’t the coach” edition.
Adams – HE GOT FOULED!!!! THEN HE HIT BOTH FREE THROWS!! What an amazing steal by Colangelo!! We now know why the Nets were so pissed at losing him. He is automatic from the line!! I heart you Bryan!!
Bargnani – you know what he is starting to remind me of? LAST YEAR!!! Poor bastard, he actually starts producing and then these twerps called “scouts” decide to actually, you know, scout him and tell their guys to put a body on him. Wish we had some of those.
Bosh – don’t know why people are ragging on this guy at his age. It’s gotta be tough to still be mobile at … what’s that? HOW OLD?? Jesus man, suck it up and be a man. Either that girlfriend with a forehead that goes on for days is wearing you out in your condomansion, or you have finally clued into the fact that your GM couldn’t get deep in the playoffs with scuba gear, a submarine AND a 4000lb anchor tied to his feet.
Calderon – you know it’s bad when Sir Hopalot has 14pts and is the second highest scorer in the game and has scored more than Bosh and Gimpy…..yet less than Joey Graham. YIKES.
Graham – the guy is like that first game of three card monte you play on the streets of NYC. You win and you think MAN, I GOT THIS. You smile, you high five your mates. Then maybe you win a couple more, string it together, looking cool to all those that watch. But you know there is someone in the crowd that is thinking “yeah, live it up, buddy….we know you are gonna bite it soon”. Well, Joey has won a few hands in a row, including a pretty solid game tonight, but ……
Humphries – he’s still hurt…..but at least he don’t look like this anymore.
Jawai – nice to see him have that heart to heart with Kris late in the game and seeing the two of them laugh, knowing they have had nothing to do with proving that Sam wasn’t the real problem. I actually had my friend who lip reads tell me what Jawai said and it was something along the lines of “mate, I couldn’t believe it when me agent called me from me barbie and told me I got this sweet deal from some sheila named Bryan. I asked if they had checked me heart out and me agent said they were more concerned with getting a better thread count for Bryan’s shirts. Struth!”
Kapono – how disturbing is it when one of the most active players without the ball is……Jason Kapono? I applaud his effort, but what a sad statement.
Moon – you know when you are sitting on the deck in the summer, having a cold beverage, kicked back, letting the rays hit ya and then you feel a fly on you? You look at it. It looks at you. It just sits there. You swat at it, but it moves just in time. Then it comes back. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. That annoyance, my friend, is natures way of imitating Jamario Moon’s jump shot.
O’Neal – and playing the part of the fly….
Parker – classic moment in Raptors television history when they showed AP and Bosh sitting beside each other, looking like a basketball version of M*A*S*H. AP made the Cavs pay with 2 wide open corner 3s to start the Raptors comeback, but then he disappeared. Actually, thinking of the monte example earlier, AP’s game kind of reminds me of finding the pea in this game.
Solomon – seriously, dude, what’s up with you staring down officials? You think they even know who you are? You are the type of player they need to do a triple take just to get your number right when they call a foul on you. Face it, if we hadn’t blown our wad on Gimpy and the Heartbreaker, you would have been hanging out with Shirley and her best friend Shania in Lubbock Texas playing for a minor league team that had its catering done by Jack In The Box.
Ukic – in a couple weeks, kids will be going to bed dreaming of the gifts they will open in the morning. Tonight, TJ Ford is going to bed praying he gets a piece of the Rokonator. If Ford faces this guy and is keeping his emotions in check, Roko could come out of the game looking like Rosanne Barr’s pantyhose: full of holes and beyond repair. I actually have grown to like the guy, but mostly because I feel sorry for him. He needs a good 2-3 years in the league to become anything. He did fairly well tonight against backups, so it has to be considered a small confidence boost. Baby steps.
Driving The Bus: Joey Graham
Under The Bus: Andrea Bargnani
Game Theme: Is This You? (note: audio NSFW)
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lol…the fly…lol
This is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read man…Roko, Jawai, Moon are all classic….great shit man.
You suck when: joey graham is driving the bus……..he flys planes, haven’t you heard? lol
Let’s put the breaks on the Roko train right now, this is Jose v2.0, by the way everyone is talking.
If I see Bosh laughing up a storm again while we are getting blown out, I will have zero respect from him from then on. MVP? Leader? Franchise player? All Star? Get the f outta here! Who is feeding this guy this BS?
Him and Jose are officially the most over rated players in the L.
Alt, whatever the pre Roll Call ritual is, let’s keep it going.
LeBron deserved a special mention.. the man had a highlight reel of dunks. Insane.
Flux, LeBron had a highlight reel of dunks…
…by the end of the first quarter alone.
“Sam Mitchell did not deserved to get fired.”
- Chris Webber [NBATV Analyst, a few minutes ago]
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What’s a real joke in Raptorville … is that this sort of stuff:
1. “In BC We Trust”
2. “We have the best GM in the League [because he's won 2 EOTY Awards, while his teams have yet to make it to the NBA Finals]
3. “Get’er done, BC”
4. “BC knows exactly what he’s doing”
has been said repeatedly since February 2006.
Do you think Bosh should be traded now before his value sinks any lower?
Just asking …. bzzzzz
yup dante west is a back up..feel srry for yourself man..posting up from ur basement taped with tj ford posters, browsing the net in late hours for stupid photos so u can hyperlink them to ur babblings…and make urself important
Check on youtube “if you have time” lol…for TJ vs Roko last year Roma vs Toronto.
tell me how roseanne barr looked after roko was done with her
ok ill save you some of ur precious time :)
Raptors 93, Roma 87
12:30 PM ET, October 7, 2007
STARTERS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
T.J. Ford, PG 25 2-7 0-1 4-6 0 1 1 5 2 0 2 2 8
R Ukic, G 38 4-9 2-5 0-0 1 2 3 9 2 0 4 1 10
every possible category….
“Sam Mitchell did not deserved to get fired.”
- Chris Webber [NBATV Analyst, a few minutes ago]
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What’s a real joke in Raptorville … is that this sort of stuff:
1. “In BC We Trust”
2. “We have the best GM in the League [because he's won 2 EOTY Awards, while his teams have yet to make it to the NBA Finals]
3. “Get’er done, BC”
4. “BC knows exactly what he’s doing”
has been said repeatedly since February 2006.
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Most overrated sports executive in the last 20 years. This guy is media savvy yes, he is confident, he is articulate, he knows a lot of big words but did it ever occur to anyone that his “TV persona” is a cop out for his lack of a GM acumen? It seems almost fake and stale. I see no difference between him and a Salesman. He knows the team is shit but he’s selling us, the fans that we are a contending team. This is the furthest thing from the truth.
Keep reading this until it sticks in your head and gives you recurring nightmares:
Ford Rajon Rondo
John Salmons Brandon Roy
Rudy Gay Rudy Fernandez
Bosh Bosh/ Paul Millsap
Biedrins Varajao
Ford Mo Williams
Brandon Roy Salmons
Rudy Fernandez Rudy Gay
Bosh Bosh
Aldridge Biedrins
* There was a posting error but any combination of those players and some could have been had. Why not trade our #1 pick since we weren’t confident in choosing the right guy? Maybe Tracy Mc Grady, Carmelo, Granger, Joe Johnson could have been had?
Why is this idiot Gheradini on the team?
So during his tenure here this is the best he can do for us:
Bargnani
Maceo Baston
Garbajosa
Will Solomon
Had a hardon for Bellineli.
So I guess the Basketball Jesus of Europe was caught sleeping when a Guy like Rudy Fernandez or Marc Gasol was making an impact meanwhile he’s in bed with Marco bellineli? My God
During the Villanueva/Graham draft, when our pick came up at 7, I remember excaliming on a draft chat that there was no way we could mess it up, considering Granger, Green and Graham were all available and all supposed to be strong prospects. Granger was also available at 16 when we took Graham.
D’oh.
Oh yeah, and Iguodala the year before.
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re: This is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read man…Roko, Jawai, Moon are all classic….great shit man. – by Arsenalist
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For those criticizing Chris Bosh for laughing, while sitting on the bench during last night 4th quarter …
Has it occurred to you yet that the above quote, by Arsenalist, could well have been said instead by the Raptors’ Captain last night, as he looked out on the floor and contemplated the exact same things that Arsenalist was “looking” at and “hearing” when he made this statement about what’s going on right now?
Hmmmm ….
I wonder.
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FWIW, I, too, thought that this Roll Call was one of the best yet by AltRaps, i.e. Hilarious and succinct.
I would not criticize Chris Bosh for sharing my opinion … about a host of different things.
Yeah, because we all know how pumped up NBA guys get to play some no name Euro scrubs. I mean really, pretty much equal to the NBA Finals.
Keep praying to you Roko My One and Only God shrine.
In 13 more minutes he jacks us more 3s, coughs up the ball more, gets 2 more points and never gets to the FT line. WOW, this guys is the next Big O, really.
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Khandor, the thing is, we don’t know what he was talking about and the point is he’s completely aware cameras are on him. This is team is not doing well at all right now, and for him to be laughing on the bench, for whatever reason, is completely unacceptable. Even JO looked like he cared more. Bosh seems to think, oh well, no like I’m going be criticized, I did my job. It’s not what leaders or Captains do. I realize you never criticize players, in fact, lately only seem to continually give excuses behind their poor performances. Which is cool, just no reason to expect the rest of the fan base to. It is well beyond time for this team to start getting things done on the floor, and when the Captain doesn’t seem to care and thinks it’s all fun and games, there is no reason to expect any other player to care at all.
Flux,
In the face of your anger and disappointment, right now …
please try your best to remember that it’s me who is actually in the business of reading crystal balls [once-in-a-while, minds, too, I suppose] and predicting with some degree of accuracy; [i] What is likely going to happen next; or, [ii] What a certain athlete, coach and/or administrator might actually be thinking, in a given situation
… not you.
If you could actually do THIS, you’d be rich. Right?
And, then, you’d have all the time in the world … to spend writing about your thoughts & ideas, on the Game of Life, for the benefit of others, on-line. : )
Keep On Truck’n
Touche, mon amie. : )
Howeva, as always, I am entitled to my opinion and I do like to think on my own, as you very well know. I really don’t care what CB4 found amusing at the time, it was equivalent of laughing and making jokes at a funeral,IMO.
The best “tribute” funerals I’ve ever been to have included both laughter and jokes … in addition to the testimonials, the heartfelt memories, and the tears.
There’s a time and a place and an appropriate context for pretty much every sort of behaviour in this world and rarely, if ever, is any one thing mutually exclusive from a specific event.
Chris Bosh laughed, on the bench, during a blow-out game.
Moments before that he also seemed to be talking with AP about something which they each saw happen on the floor during the 4th quarter.
Best to just let it go.
BTW …
Do you think Tinman, d279, yertu, tonious, etc., will take the time to read #17? : )
Yeah, I knew you’d say that. : ) I guess I appreciated their laughter less then others, suffice to say.
Ah, who knows! In the grad scheme of things, does it matter? You know, and those that care enough know, so really that’s all that matters, right? If someone does have enough vision to see when another is throwing around pearls of wisdom, it’s their loss.
*doesn’t