Either way, the Raptors ARE one of the worst teams in the league! They’re in the bottom 1/3 in terms of overall record, and are a home loss to the Grizzlies away from affirming their weak standing.

I hope BC can finally get his head out his a$$, and see that he’s put a flawed product out on the court, and it’s just not good enough. In a market the size of Toronto, and repping the only team in the entire country, we deserve better than seeing names like Will Solomon logging major minutes. Or guys like Hassan Adams even being signed to ANY type of contract with the Raptors name on it!!!

Wake up BC, and get some true NBA talent in here! Enough with waiting on guys like Humphries, Graham or Kapono to turn into “players”. It’s time BC turns chicken-s*t into chicken salad! That’s the true mark of a good GM.

1: Tim Duncan, LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade

2: Tracy McGrady, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, Allen Iverson.

The players in the first group, based on not just talent, but on personality, grit, intestinal fortitude, ability to defend…the whole package…are players I never doubt can/will/have lead a team to a championship.

The players in the second group are all perennial stars who I don’t think will ever win a championship without major (crucial) help beside them. This is a list of players who have been MVP, scoring champion, franchise player…

I have no doubt LeBron and Paul will win championships because they make WHOEVER they play with better and they have proven they will come up with a huge play in the crunch in a playoff type situation.

It is subtle and it requires not looking at the obvious and I wouldn’t expect anyone here to get what I’m talking about but until I am proven wrong, I will continue to believe it

You put any of the second group players with any of the first group players and that changes the game.

It’s waver, not waiver.

Bosh said HIMSELF that he was aiming at MVP and that getting past where they were last year was the whole point and there was no reason why they couldn’t contend. He said it many times and even said it after Mitchell was fired when asked if his hopes for the season were dashed. If you somehow missed him saying it, that is your problem.

Re: is he going to make the all-star game?

O’Neal said he should be an All-Star on his home floor but said “I’m not going to be doing e-mail campaigns and putting on cowboys hats.”

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Still, on a night when all-star Chris Bosh was hard to recognize for long stretches – he missed nine of his first 12 shots – Toronto made good on 54 per cent from the field, including 8 of 9 by Andrea Bargnani, who scored a team-high 25 points.

Said Bosh of Bargnani: “He’s been real good. I don’t know what switched him on, but he got some confidence somewhere, or he got his confidence back, I should say.”
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Nuff … said.

When the Spurs won their 1st NBA title, who do you think was the Leader of that team? [David Robinson, Sean Elliot, Avery Johnson or Tim Duncan]

Before the Spurs won that year … Did you know/believe/think/suspect that that player had the capacity for Leadership to THAT degree? … or, Were you even just a little bit surprised by the manner in which THAT specific was able to dictate the Terms of Engagement for THAT team, that season, all the way to winning the League championship?

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Not many people really understand what effective leadership entails … even though they might be fond of telling others who it is they think a good leader is and who is not.

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Failing to waiver on a point … can be problematic if your perspective is not the correct one, in the first place … and is nothing to be proud of.

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That assertion might be properly associated with any number of Raptors fans AND Bryan Colangelo … but, as best as I can recall, not with anything said by Chris Bosh.

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It’s important to get the facts straight when you’re someone who speaks with an authorative voice. : )

Anyone who still thinks the O’Neal trade was a good move is an idiot.

I have not wavered on either of those views, ever…

Nothing would make me happier than to be wrong about either of those things, because then I could stop being so angry…..but the only thing that would indicate it to me is if this team gets to the second round of the playoffs as was the arrogant assertion going into this year…

o’neal has a 30 pt game= he’s a monster, now = trade him…
PATHETIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRuHXkWpdJ0

Andiamo – eat your heart out.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=2981~2987~1977~2806~2759~2433~3441~2010~3249~615~635~1023~2790~2802~3187~981~2816~294~3058~366~2769~2775~1724~3458~3235~883&teams=8~8~8~8~8~8~8~8~8~8~8~8~8~28~28~28~28~28~28~28~28~28~28~28~28~28&te=&cash=

Take Moon for example. When the opposition has bailed, and there are 3 or 4 Raps hanging around the basket, Moon has been known to climb over his fellow Raps, snaring the rebound as if it was a competition.

I guess that’s why they say Stats only go so far. And why certain sports media types think Moon is the best thing since sliced bread (relatively speaking). Even perusing other team’s blog sites, you have to wonder when they say they’d love to get Moon in a trade. Good thing they’re not the GM.

Actually, it’s too bad they’re not.

http://heylarryhughespleasestoptakingsomanybadshots.com/2008/01/09/game-35-36/

He’s a good defender only when he wants to be and the fact that he keeps getting traded tells me there’s something wrong with him. Nocioni on the other hand is an unknown quantity to me because I don’t see the Bulls nearly enough he’s a gritty player that plays both ends hard, lord knows we need that.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=2010~635~2006&teams=6~6~28&te=&cash=