The “now THAT is how a hungry team plays” edition…
Banks – stayed in Toronto. A city awaits word on his injury with a nervousness not often felt amongst the legions of fans.
Bargnani – his game tonight reminded me of going to an Italian buffet and all they served was bruschetta and sticky spaghetti. Willing to give him a little pass due to playing back to backs and coming off the flu, but all the “he gets paid millions” fans will not be so kind.
Bosh – played with passion right out of the gate. More talkative and demonstrative than I have seen in ages and it translated into 18/14. Oh, and for the believers, a –6 tied for the best amongst our starters. Unlike some, he is showing why he is deserving of a nice pay raise.
Calderon – streak: A number of things placed or occurring one after the other. Mistake: this.
Graham – a bit better tonight. Agreed that he doesn’t have as much PT opportunity as he had pre-Marion, but a wise player does what he can with what he has…kind of like RapsFan at the Red Party.
Humphries – 
Kapono – smiling and trash talking, something you don’t see often by the South Beach Assassin. I’m a big fan of his game of late. Not throwing up numbers that make you talk about him at the water cooler, but doing stuff that makes you talk about him over, say, a triple shot tall latte.
Marion – nice to see him sign his shoes at the end. He might think about holding on to some, though, since his effort of late is a pretty large indicator that he will be taking a beating at the contract negotiation table this summer and he might need some coin to pick up some kicks at The Shoe Company.
Mensah-Bonsu – would you give him a standing ovation today? I can’t knock him down at his knees since you had to expect a “normal” game from him. Now the real fun comes in watching how he comes back. He has impeccable timing, considering he has 3 days to let this appearance get out of his system. Maybe all the Moon comparisons hit him on his Blackberry and he took them to heart. By the way, attacking the basket in the last play of a blowout? Classless.
O’Bryant – tells you something that the guy with Irish blood in him wants nothing to do with those horrible unis. How come they don’t wear plaid on Robbie Burns Day?
Parker – not much better than yesterday. Disappointed he didn’t take over the point when Jose fell into early foul trouble. I do still believe we need him back, but his play has fallen off sharply of late. My money is on he has something physically wrong and is playing through it.
Ukic – needs a haircut. That’s about the only newsworthy part of his game tonight. And I use the term game about as lightly as a feather hits the moon.
Voskuhl – would have been nice to see him get some burn in his old stomping ground. Probably never entered Jay’s mind which was busy trying to figure out what 12 choices he should make at Country Style tomorrow.
Driving The Bus: Chris Bosh
Under The Bus: Jose Calderon
Game Theme:
21 Raps
fugly.
Anybody else notice that Bosh was giving up the ball sooner at the start of the game … perhaps Triano asked him to stop hogging it so long into the clock before he figured out he had no shot and everybody was standing around waiting for him to make up his mind ..???
Unfortunately, he fumbled the ball 3 times out of 23 for the team and not much came of his quick passing other than icing him out of the play. Some bballers can’t think unless they are holding the ball (and I have played with such frustrating morons).
Other than that, the Ratpors fell into a galactic black hole with their pathetic performance:
27 for 71 and 38% shooting
3 for 16 and 18% 3-pt shooting
19 measly assists
23 TO’s (butterfingers)
I think those green unis with the clover are bad luck if worn twice in a row … ya think ..????!!!
Maybe I’m dumb but i thought the opening tip was wrong. Bosh has his back to the Bobcat basket
Did my eyes deceive me, or did Jose actually throw one down in game for once.
That’s more like it…
Parker had 6 TOs and he should’ve played the point more? I’ve had enough of him. On a steadily declining slide career-wise and there’s a plethora of options for non-driving guys that think they’re Jordan when they fade.
Bosh was ok, but when did he score his 18th point? I know we were down big in the 4th but I don’t recall him doing much to mount our patented late comeback only to lose by 5.
Charlotte impressed me. Hope they make the playoffs. Would much rather watch them over Chicago or Milwaukee. Hope we can regroup for Friday ’cause they don’t make it easy.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I didn’t think they would lose so shamefuly. No pride…f*ck the red party, I say we crash it and burn the mother down!
It’s the uniform. We need the purple and black back.
I am anxiously awaiting Mike D’s comments after this one.
i think Marion should be under the bus. Was there one play where he kept Wallace in front of him all game?
yeah.,bosh drove the bus alright,over a cliff…a comedy of errors…not one guy played well tonight.NOT ONE….what REALLY pisses me off is that every time we win one fucking game like yesterday i always see the usual suspects on the bench laughin,clownin,smilin and yukin it up like we done something.WE AINT DONE SHIT.if this team actually had a leader he’d confront that shit and squash that bullshit until they actually accomplished somethin to be happy about.say something like,”hey guys,we just won one fucking game,lets ease up on the festivities and maybe try to string some w’s together to get back into the playoff race before we giggle and clown and suck each others dicks like lil faggots”…then maybe tonight they would have been more focused,more determined to at least compete,to fight and show some fucking self respect…..this team and its nerd leader are pathetic.
yet we still watch.
Raps now have to focus hard on losing good games.
Raptors currently sit in the 8th spot but if we just lost a few more games we could get 6th. GSW is 19 games under .500 while Min just broke the 20 win mark and OKA has 19 wins …so with a real bad end to the year we could secure the 5th pick.
You don’t “secure” anything in a lottery…and it is still the fucking Raptor braintrust doing the picking….you can’t underestimate their capacity to make a bad choice no matter what pick we end up with….and it is a weak draft to begin with….
Marion was the one under the bus…
actually, every single game it is Colangelo under the bus…
Calderon needs a fucking coach and a system…and players that fit that system.
..and since Bosh’s “pay raise” is going to be the same pay raise that Wade and LeBron are eligible to get, your comment that he deserves it for a game like that against Charlotte, illustrates how low the toronto fanboy standards are.
….and making it all much, much worse is the increasingly moronic Armstrong (I thought no one could ever be as bad as Rautins..I was wrong) and his never ending babble in the ugliest voice in broadcasting…when did it become a rule that there can never, ever be just the sound and sight of a GAME on TV?? It isn’t fucking radio….
…only voice that is worse: Dick Vitale…
Marion has given up, just like the rest of the team. FREE ROKO
I know this has nothing to do with anything but did anyone else notice when i think it was devlin announced the canucks were going to play he pronounced it “canooks”
Yeah, I thought Jack was going to call him out on it, but no such luck.
Jays home opener April 6…
Just a little article about D Wade being in MVP talks. This is a quote from A. Wojnarowski
“Wade has been surrounded with pedestrian talent, but he’s made them the team that nobody wants to play in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. With the summer of 2010 looming, Wade has delivered a reminder to NBA owners and general managers about the definition of a franchise player: All alone, he can make a team relevant. All alone, he can get a team out of the first round. Those stars are rare, and Wade is still one of them.”
I would like to add that Bosh is DEFINITELY NOT one of them!! For anybody that believes that we should give MAX money to CB4 is out of their F-ing minds!!
Bosh is showing why he deserves a pay raise??? Showing up 1 out of 5 games means he is worthy of a max contract? LOL.