The “positivity becomes me” edition
Bargnani – I’m positive his agent is secretly making calls around the league to gauge interest. Hell, if Swirsky is saying Bosh will probably leave, then why not Bargs too? Hit a lull in the middle of the game, but ended up with a 20/10. As impressed as we all should be with how he has played lately, I’m really impressed by the smarts he is showing. Great stuff.
Bosh – I’m positive he isn’t leaving this city of his own volition. Yet another double double, but that has to be tempered with some bad ball handling. Heck of a pass in transition to Moon, but if I’m positive of something else, it’s that he won’t be buying Moon an extra bag of peanuts on the flight tonight.
Calderon – I’m positive he misses his pillow fights with Jorge on nights like this.
Graham – I’m positive the world would have stopped spinning had he replicated what he did yesterday. 3 early fouls took him out of the game and, when he got back in, he looked like his mind stayed out. He was as useful to us today as a person with dyslexia on Wheel Of Fortune.
Humphries – I’m positive he is “injured”. Yeah, and Megan Fox is over here right now making an appointment for me to accompany her to get her breasts enhanced to look like Salma Hayek’s. She wants me to ensure they look just right.
Jawai – I’m positive he was activated just because he actually bought a new sports jacket. Poor bastard finally splurged and what does Jay do? Puts him in a uniform. Sheesh. And Nathan thought the aborigines had it bad. By the way, I promised I wouldn’t make any heart jokes once he was activated. I will keep my word. After all, if I didn’t, I’d be left between a rock and a heart place.
Kapono – I’m positive you want him taking that final shot. You have to just to make Colangelo feel he is loved and respected. I must say, though, that both attempts by J-Killa looked like a 12 year old girl trying to fit into her older sisters 2 piece bikini: flat and with no hope.
Moon – I’m positive he needs to be roughed up by some drunk Newfies. First the boneheaded foul at the end of the half, then the Roko-inspired fouling-for-points competition that Ukic started yesterday, and the sheer ability to make any hope disappear like you finding out that your competition for the marketing job you want is an ex-hooker who’s biggest client was the owner of the company. If HO is worth anything, he should take a metal pipe to the teeth of Mr. Moon.
O’Neal – I’m positive he enjoyed “Wall E” on the movie channel at the hotel while his teammates worked to pay some of his salary.
Parker – I’m positive after having to face Nash yesterday, he looked at today’s opponent and slumped down to bed murmuring “bibby..bibby…bibby” until he fell asleep. Just shy of a double double and again looking rejuvenated. It will be a shame to see this AP leave us, to be honest.
Solomon – I’m positive that as I type this he is dusting off his resume and firing it off to Starbuck’s. Willy the Barista at your service.
Ukic – I’m positive that Roko should use this game as a stepping stone. Did he make mistakes? Sure. He also made some smart decisions, he mixed up his drives and pull ups, and he was actually directing traffic. Still needs to be more trusting of his teammates at times.
Voskuhl – I’m positive he hit up some bar after the game and mocked Jamario something fierce. I bet he is the one who demanded Jamario remove the headband. Kind of a demotion type thing. How pathetic must you be if Jake Voskuhl mocks you? Anyway, average game from Jake tonight. No points, couple of boards, took up space, updated Twitter. All good.
Driving The Bus: Chris Bosh
Under The Bus: Jamario Moon
Game Theme: Doh
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When Bosh actually makes a fucking game winning play like very other fucking “superstar” in the league, he can call out his minimum contract teammates…
GameWinningPlays usually come from your PGs, SFs or SG, or Bargs….either they have no talent or they don’t feed Bargs at the end.
I’m new to this site – yay TrueHoop for the link – but nunya, why do you even post anything here? I’m half an hour into the sight and I already know to ignore the vitriolic drivle you write. Who ever called Bosh a “superstar”? He’s an all-star that looks worse than he is b/c the team around him is terrible. Moon deserved the heat yesterday – between his dopey grins, his quotes after the game, and a season and a half of watching him make the same mistakes and never learning, it’s about fricking time Bosh threw him under the bus.
“If HO is worth anything, he should take a metal pipe to the teeth of Mr. Moon.”
Have you seen his grill? I think it’s a little late for that.
I am not watching our supporting the Raptors till we dont get some kind of trade going. I say we trade Bosh, Oneal, and Calderon and rebuild this team around AB.. With Bosh we can get an allstar not one pretending to be one. Oneal we can get a whole team with his salary. And Calderon we need a trade with the Suns cause Like I said before we need Nash..
Right now, Bosh is a 23.4/10 guy, league wide is top ten in both scoring and rebounds and is second and third respectively among power forwards. Good teams do not ask their power forward to create a shot to win the game. Saying that he is “pretending to be an allstar” is ridiculous.
if you think a tired nash, who has always been a weak defender is the answer, you are sadly mistaken. you are essentially trading jose for jose in 12 years hahahahaha ahh, yeah. if you move those guys, you trade for an all star shooting guard, give ukic the minutes to develop, struggle with graham’s learning curve and don’t bench him, play barg’s at 4 and try and pry tyson chandler from the hornets. then fill your roster with athletic slashers who want to defend, not shooters who can’t, and one althletic slasher who fancies himself a jump shooter. But really i would keep bosh and bargs, go with graham, ukic, and see who at the 2 was available.
albert – besides the obvious reasons why jose won’t be traded, he’s a BYC player (1st year of a new deal); if dealt during the first year of a new contract, the player(s) coming back can only make 1/2 of his salary.
technically speaking (per wiki): A BYC player’s trade value as outgoing salary is 50% of his new salary, or his previous salary, whichever is greater. BYC applies only to players who re-sign with their previous team and receive a raise greater than 20%. It also applies only when (and as long as) the team is over the salary cap.
so, making a deal is feasible, but very unlikely. the BYC thing is why the TJ for JO deal had to wait until Jul 9th…until then, he (TJ) was a BYC player, and the salaries wouldn’t have matched up. any deal involving jose that’s intended to bring back a legit starting PG would have to be part of a much larger deal.
besides…jose hasn’t really been the problem, it’s the lack of depth behind him, and lack of consistent production from the 2/3 spots, that’s been the blight on this season. hopefully, AP can either fill that role, or be attractive enough bait to get something decent in return.
Before we trade the entire team away – because fire sale always bring back great value for the seller – shouldn’t we think about focusing on bringing in a starting caliber SF and a couple of decent SF/SG backups? Because as awful a player as Chris Bosh, Andrea Bargnani, Jose Calderon and the ever-healthy Jermaine O’Neal are maybe we could catch lighting in a bottle if we shored up our perimeter play. Even without the JO trade it might be possible for Toronto to get Childress, Delfino and someone in the lottery. I bet Rodney Carney won’t cost a team its full mid-level exception.
Or maybe we could have a series of temper tantrums over a season gone wrong. Perhaps we could march on the ACC like the villagers in Frankenstein demanding BC’s head. Yeah, on second thought that’s probably the best way to work it out.
I totally agree with Albert on trading Jose for Nash. This trade will benefit both teams. Yes, Nash is old but his skills are still there. He may not solve Jose’s defensive liabilities but he is the point guard that we need, who runs, moves the ball well and finds open teammates fast for easy baskets. Plus, he makes teammates better. He can make Bosh score around 30 points a game without Bosh (whom for me is better than Amare) having to create the offense himself and settle for a midrange jumper like he does now. And he can find open looks for Kapono (if JK is not included in the trade) to hit the three ball without JK having to do that stupid dumbass step-back dribble. I hope BC works this out after we get Marion for JO.
On the other hand this trade does work for Phoenix. After their lucky win yesterday led by Capt. Canada himself, they are demolished by the defending champs! Our performance against Boston last week was way way way way better! Since the Suns’ offense runs mainly on Shaq, I think Jose is the point guard for them. He can set the play for Shaq, like what he does to CB4, using up the shot clock. Nash cannot do what he was previously doing with the D’Antoni system because they have to wait on Shaq to run up the court on offense.
Marion for O’Kneel. Well, whatever. Maybe we can steal an unused wing off the Miami bench who is hopefully more competent than MOON AHRGHGADHKJASDHFLK. Seriously, how long did we sign this fool for? 10 day contracts should’ve been more than enough.
Bargs with a bad shooting game, but he still puts up 20/10. He’s silencing critics and I’m lovin’ it (Bada baba BA!)
20/10 is alright but I think he had 20 on 19 shots. That’s pretty inefficient. I think in general if you give player x the majority of the shots, he will fill up the stat line on a per-game basis. To me, what really counts is efficiency, which Bargs has not been this season.
If you check basketball reference and subtract Andreas offensive rating (estimate of how many points he would score/100 possesions) from his defensive rating (estimate of how many points he gives up) you get -5, meaning that he gives up 5 more points than he scores per 100 possessions. However, JO was at -7. So Andrea’s play has been somewhat greater than JO’s, but he’s still not a powerhouse.
Speaking of Mr. Carney,
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re: technically speaking (per wiki): A BYC player’s trade value as outgoing salary is 50% of his new salary, or his previous salary, whichever is greater. BYC applies only to players who re-sign with their previous team and receive a raise greater than 20%. It also applies only when (and as long as) the team is over the salary cap.
so, making a deal is feasible, but very unlikely. the BYC thing is why the TJ for JO deal had to wait until Jul 9th…until then, he (TJ) was a BYC player, and the salaries wouldn’t have matched up. – by yertu
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It’s too bad you didn’t know/recall the implications of these CBA stipulations when you first disputed the financial legitimacy of the TJ Ford for Rodney Carney trade suggestion I made during the spring/summer. : )
Maybe because the guy has a life outside this website/internet. And who would look too you for advice for anything? LOL
Your one of those people who spent 20 hour days locked in your room as a kid reading books on how to make friends but cant grasp the concept.
Go get Laid
it wasn’t necessarily financially that i was disputing the deal, simply the notion that a sane GM would trade a legit starting PG for a scrub…who’s still a scrub, on a shitty team (though getting more burn as late…of course, it WAS mccants he was playing behind, so…). i get the reasons it ‘could’ have happened (the raps didn’t ‘need’ TJ anymore, had proven they were competent without him, and so didn’t ‘need’ to get something significant back), but the REALITY is that it’s just not a rational argument.
but whatever. keep beating that horse.
Bikini joke was the best of the season, awesome stuff
ok just for the record…
I WAS AT THIS GAME… and GAVE IT MY ALL TO CHEER FOR THE RAPTORS…
I WAS CHEERING SO LOUD THAT HAWKS KEPT MISSING THEIR FREETHROWS…
I WAS CHEERING SO LOUD THAT THE HAWKS MASCOT CAME AT ME WITH SILLY STRING AND HELD THE CAN 3 FEET FROM MY FACE…AND AT THAT POINT, MY SIDE OF THE STADIUM HATED ME SO MUCH FOR BEING LOUD EVERYONE POINTED AND LAUGHED AS IF SOMEONE HAD MADE A BASKET OR SOMETHING…AND PEOPLE KNEW ME AS THE GIRL WITH THE RED RAPTORS HANDS… I TOOK ONE FOR THE TEAM OK… I WAS SO MAD.
i had so much fun tho…raptors were smashing today…hawks could barely keep up…dont worry i let the raptors know whos side i was on cuz chris bosch heard me…gotta rep my home and native land.. lol…
did u know…that they were getting so mad at my team spirit, that TWO Philips arena workers told me that i wasnt “ALLOWED” to scream so loud or stand up and dance with my BIG FOAM RED RAPTORS HANDS…
americans…omg…THE IGNORANCE i cant take!
You made it on the broadcast. Good for you!
Hey, I saw you on the broadcast, well done!
In the words of David Puddy, “You gotta support the team”
This team is a long way off being a championship calibre unit and should be blown up. Keep Bargnani, Bosh, and trade anything/everything else to redo the roster, and even consider swapping CB4 if he can bring the right player.
I know Calderon is a better player than what we have seen this season, but if they can put him in a package to get some all-star talent wing players, they should do it.
u think these guys are already in full tank mode..? they dont wanna make it obvious tho, so they keep games close and then lose..
Let me make this simple for you guys
What has Bryan accomplished in his 15 year career as a Gm ? 12 first round exists, is what his resume says.
Who owns the Raptors? Does this ownership have a commitment to winning? What is there playoff history like? ……..Let me know this
Why will things change next season when history tells us ; 2002-2008 when we were still a laughing stock, (like Khandor’s sex life) …and promised change by MLSE yet were always rebuilding? Always.
Messina will arrive next season, Jawai will play, Delfino will return and that will be that. We will “still” be a 1st round team or worse.
Then in 2010 when Bosh is gone, we will have a brand spankin’ new 5 year plan to rebuild.
You think a team like Portland or the Lakers, Orlando would be where they are if Richard Peddie were running things? LOL. They win because there ownership is committed to win. That then filters down to having winning players which those teams have
This is what we need…
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=2806~2010~3249~615~592~2184~510~3474&teams=21~21~9~14~28~28~28~28&te=&cash=
AltRaps – do you think Bargnani is potentially on the move? Was that blurb serious? I haven’t heard anything, but I’m curious if there’s legitimacy to that.
I would recommend reading the TJose Caldeford blog, this particular article is good stuff. It has some interesting things about Bargnani and Marion and could be a good read.