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‘Sup everybody, they’re singing the national anthems. They got a real cow to sing the Canadian one. Never really liked how the US national anthem gets a louder cheer even though it was sung worse.
DeMar DeRozan, Patrick O’Bryant, Roko Ukic, Quincy Douby, Paul Davis are the starting lineup.
McCauley is killing Patrick O’Bryant on the offensive glass, POB looks a little soft footed there. Douby turns it over to fuel the break. 8-0 Lakers. Sasha Vujacic is in the game for the Lakers. DeRozan with a nice floater on the baseline, looks good. McCauley now taking POB outside with the jumper. Hand this guy a 10yr/60M deal. Some guy named Paul Davis scored for us. Lakers killing us on the boards. Ukic actually drove and kick and got the ball back on the swing and hit the three!
Roko just crossed hard to his left, bad defense. Very lackadaisical. He follows it up with a layup-fake on the break and a behind the back pass to Douby on the break – Raps pretty on the break.
Smush Parker is in the game, walks as soon as he comes in. Ukic still keeping his hands on his hips like a girl Douby’s been doing most of the ball handling so far. Smush uses the high screen and drains a three. Nice stroke. Then comes up with a steal and gets fouled on a break. I reckon he’s shown enough for a 5yr/60M deal. So far Douby and Smush have been trying to get their own while POB is getting owned on defense.
Adam Morrison feels he can take any shot. Making is another story
Spanish forward for the Raptors, David Doblas, executes a hard pivot post-move for the foul. Best move of the game so far for us. Goes 1-2. David Aldridge is calling the game, he appears to be high.
POB needs to be dominating this and he’s not. I think he just got his first rebound. It’s 14-14. POB should’ve gotten a block on Justin Hawking there, but got scored on. Very unimpressive performance by him so far. Raps are 2-8 from the FT line.
Smush Parker with another step-back jumper, he’s outshining Roko right now. Raptor Demetris Nichols (Syracuse, ex-Blazer) just went up strong for a dunk after a baseline move. Showed quickness there, got fouled hard and hit both FTs. Brent Petway got a block that POB should’ve gotten. Very nice, got up high and timed it well. It’s 18-16 Raptors.
Smush using the high screen and turning off of it to get fouled. POB set the screen and rolled, Smush getting his right now. Boy, Quincy Douby can’t hit a shot. He’s taking it early in the clock and missing badly. Brent Petway ran the break well for us to get two, POB hits a jumper right after and its 24-16 Raps. Petway and Nichols showing some very good athleticism for us. Lakers have called a timeout.
BTW, Carl English has not entered the game.
Petway showing us some passing on the break, too bad Douby can’t finish. DeRozan’s drive looks a little raw but at least he’s driving. Roko is back in the game, breaks down some no-name punk and goes in for the layup. Smush’s little show probably woke him up. Petway has been one of the best Raptors so far. Got a block on a guard driving in, bad offense, good defense. He’s shown some great athleticism. It’s 28-19 Raps, 6:28 2nd.
DeRozan picks up a charge. He’s looking to be aggressive, once he gets his timing right he’ll be fine. Roko showing a case of tunnel-vision after the drive and gets REJECTED. Douby’s second spell has been much better, hit a jumper, drove the ball and looked generally more composed.
One-on-one POB vs Morrison on the semi-break and POB gets called for the AND1. Adam Morrison is unable to guard Douby, no lateral movement. Morrison making Douby look good. As soon as Smush comes in for Ukic, he goes one-on-one, loses handle but ball falls to a Raptor who drains the spot. Smush is really looking to get his.
Smush once again turns off the high pick and sets up a Raptor who blows the layup. Nice move though. DeRozan showing us a 14-foot jumper. His jumper is fundamentally sound.
Brent Petway closes the half with a massive left-handed dunk after Parker set him up after the drive. It’s halftime. 40-31 Raptors. Will return for the second when it starts.
Raptors letting Douby handle point duties with Roko at off-guard. Douby is doing well against Morrison. David Aldridge picks the Raptors to finish 6th and if they stay fully healthy, maybe 5th.
Roko alley-oop to DeMar DeRozan on the break. Sick stuff He’s missed his last two jumpers though, keep with the drive kid, keep with the drive. 48-43 Raps, 5:37 left in the third. DeRozan misses his third jumper in a row. Ukic isn’t showing much at all and Douby is settling. Lakers have taken the lead on an offensive put-back right in front of POB. Roko finally asserts himself with a drive to the right and gets fouled.
Raptors aren’t getting back anymore and Roko settling for a 25 footer doesn’t help. WTF? Smush using his height advantage over his cover well, another step-back jumper. Good man. Best Raptor today you could even say. Just had a sick pass to POB from beyond the 3pt line off the pick ‘n roll. He has been impressive, looks like an NBA player. 8/3/5 for Smush.
DeRozan showing us a baseline jumper. Used the pick, went to his let, dug his feet in the ground and elevated nicely. It’s 62-61 Lakers at the end of 3. Raptors shooting 53%, Lakers at 40%. Lakers getting a lot of second chance points early in the game.
Am I being unfair when I expect Patrick O’Bryant to sorta dominate? Just as I’m thinking that, POB finishes hard and gets fouled after rolling on a high screen. They’re trying to front O’Bryant again and he caught the pass and finished. He should be able to do a lot more of that if we just be a little patient and use him.
Douby showing us a little drive to the left, got fouled. He’s had a much better second half but that doesn’t change the fact that we had no business signing him to an extension last year. Two 10-days sounded about right. Douby misses an open three, gotta hit that, it was even in rhythm. Drove to his right, controlled the body, absorbed contact and finished. Good move.
The announcer keeps calling Roko “Rukic”.
DeRozan and Morrison getting at it. Morrison hitting a couple jumpers and DeRozan comes back with a nice move drive, turn-around spin for a short-jumper. If he can get that move going we won’t even remember Anthony Parker. Morrison is having a pretty good game, he’s filling it up from the perimeter. 9-16 FG for him. 73-73 5:53 left.
DeRozan is looking very fluid and confident. Some of the jumpers are off but overall he appears to know exactly what he wants to do and goes about it in a confident way. The defense has also been very good although Morrison’s hit some jumpers on him.
Ukic had a post-up and walked, committed an offensive foul (hook) and then made a bad pass, all at the same time. That’s three turnovers on one play. Nice. Comes back with a floater but overall he’s been unimpressive. 77-77, 2:53 left.
DeRozan with a nice hop-step type drive but gets rejected at the rim. Ukic hits two FTs to tie the game at 81 with 1:32 left. Ukic launches an ugly jumper with :52 left, misses. Had a nice drive ‘n kick which didn’t go anywhere (probably should’ve just finished). Ukic sets up POB who misses the jumper, DeRozan misses the put-back one-handed jam.
Lakers execute a pick ‘n pop with McCauley launching a big jumper from 20 feet out to give them a 2 point lead. 83-81 Lakers. 14 seconds left. Raps come back with DeRozan going one-on-one with Morrison, drives to the rim but doesn’t get the roll. A good move, just didn’t fall.
Raps forced to foul and Morrison seals the game with two FTs. Roko hits a three at the buzzer to make it a one point loss. Disappointing loss really, the Lakers had one NBA player on the team whereas we had 4. DeRozan looked great, Smush’s offense looked great, Roko didn’t assert himself and ended up having very little impact, I thought he got away with at least three walks. POB played like POB does: very hesitant on offense, looked very raw and unpolished, tried to be big on defense but the timing wasn’t there and got scored on a little too much. Douby had a bad first half, a good second one and took advantage of the slower Morrison checking him. Raptors missed tons of FTs which probably cost them the game.
At least we now know that Smush is motivated to make the game and if his summer league goes the way this game went, he’s going to get at least a call to training camp. His jumper is superior to both Douby, Ukic and Banks which could be the difference in him making the team. DeRozan, as I said earlier, is a confident multi-skilled player. He’s more than just raw athleticism, he’s got the willingness to drive and the makings of a solid jumper. It might not happen this year but he’s already ahead of year 4 Joey Graham. Really enjoyed watching him think and maneuver with the ball, looking forward to the next game.
Brent Petway impressed with his athleticism and drive, reminded me a little of Pops when it comes to sheer aggressiveness. Seems like he’s got a high basketball IQ, he looked very comfortable out there and was physically on par with anyone on the court.
Thanks for swinging by, here’s the Raptors official roster.
| Num | Player | Position | Height | Weight | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | David Doblas | F | 6-9 | 285 | Spain |
| 23 | Paul Davis | C | 6-11 | 270 | Michigan State |
| 10 | DeMar DeRozan | G | 6-7 | 220 | Southern California |
| 5 | Quincy Douby | G | 6-3 | 185 | Rutgers |
| 12 | Carl English | F | 6-5 | 205 | Hawaii |
| 32 | Ekene Ibekwe | F | 6-9 | 220 | Maryland |
| 28 | Demetris Nichols | F | 6-8 | 215 | Syracuse |
| 13 | Patrick O’Bryant | C | 7-0 | 250 | Bradley |
| 3 | Smush Parker | G | 6-4 | 190 | Fordham |
| 14 | Brent Petway | F | 6-8 | 205 | Michigan |
| 1 | Roko Ukic | G | 6-5 | 185 | Croatia |
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Those two need to get into a contest where the winner is determined by the first guy to play any defense. I reckon the contest would go on for a year or so.
That’s not even fair. Chris’ defence isn’t spectacular, but to equate it to Chuckie NoD’s is just criminal.
Bosh and Charlie seriously have nothing better to do? Fucking ridiculous.
why? it’s summer. wtf are you doing?
btw, Chris Bosh is now a trending topic on twitter….
and he’s got a livestrem up right now- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cbtv-live0
he’s been talking about 2010 A LOT and about our roster and Hedo, and he’s talking about Caribana, his new Canadian DVD coming out, Drake, etc.
check it out and follow him on twitter @chrisbosh
It might look something like this, only for bball D:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4361539338537459202&ei=kulXSrqiIpDiqQKmst1W&q=Demetri+Martin+-+Passive+Aggressive+Race+&hl=en
Word is out that Bosh and Charlie are going at it hard. Bosh is calling out Charlie’s defence. Their playing NBA Live 09 against each other every day for hours. Expect a formal contest at Bosh’s house in Dallas during the ASG to be announced.
Summertime.
So are there no summer league games on RapsTV?
Is there ever anything worth watching on RapsTV?
Uhm… classic Raps games?
Is there any other websites available to watch the game. My Windows Media Player doesn’t work with NBA games
you have to pay for it on the NBA site. the player is flash based for the Vegas games.
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Will there be any link from this site to catch the summer league action aka tsn2 like??????????????
Chris Bosh talking live RIGHT NOW at- http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cbtv-live0
he’s been talking about 2010 A LOT and about our roster and Hedo, and he’s talking about Caribana, his new Canadian DVD coming out, Drake, Michael Jackson, etc.
this sure reads a lot like spam.
I can’t wait for the DVD. If it doesn’t have naked girls screwing dirty South homebwoys…. forgetabouit.
Where is the link to the live blog?
That looks like a pretty good starting lineup by summer league standards.
Ukic hit a 3? Damn!
Hows Derozan doing? Heard hes not getting many touches.
Arsenalit, Did someone spit in your beer?
What’s with the he hit a 3, give him 5 and $50m every other line?
And no summmer league on RapsTV – NBA wants $14.99 cash to watch these games! PPV exhibition games, what a concept!
Those lines were the best part of the game recap!! :D
Dude, it’s the summer league season opener. It’s all about cracking jokes, playing one-on-one and fouling out after committing 10 PF cuz it’s summer league for the ref’s too,
Summertime.
I thought was Joey Graham at first sight! Scared me for a moment. It was Brent Petway, nice block near the end of the first quarter too.
Brent Petway … slam dunk champion from the D-League? Cut by Memphis last year midway through training camp? Same guy? I think so.
Hey guys Raptors game is on Atdhe.net for free
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HAHA i feel sorry for the people who accually paid for this…
I’m sure it’s better quality. Streams suck.
All these guys look like they haven’t played for a while!
Smush Parker looks to be far superior to Ukic. In fact Ukic looks like he wouldn’t even make it the D-league at the moment.
Summer league. season opener. one player has a guaranteed contract. Another one doesn’t.
Summertime.
Derozan has a really nice close/mid range game. But his 3s/long 2s need some work; alot of them went in-and-out, none were missed badly.
IF anybody caught the pre-4th quarter show…that kid won the dance off and got the “come-over-here” finger from the lady dancers…his hormones must of exploded….
His eyes lit up like it was Christmas morning…
If this was the last summer league game…. I would dump POB’s ass right away and get the minimum on Rasho now!!!
Douby was solid
POB kinda reminds me of a poor man Marcus Camby.
except that Camby is an excellent rebounder and defender. So, a very poor man’s Camby.
Sucker who paid the 15 bucks here….
Adam Morrison ran things.
Obryant was solid offesively but his D is pretty bad.
Smush played well but really looked for his.
Douby was good.
Derozan did not play great but you can tell he looks like he has a good shot at being special
Ukic still needs work. He should not be our backup PG to start the season this clearly needs to be addressed.
If i were Marcus Banks would you not have asked to be apart of this team. I mean seriously work on your game.
Nichols and Petasomething looked like they had some hops and not much else.
Between Obryant, Douby, Ukic, and Smush all trying to show they are possible rotation players, I would say they all look like 11th-15th man on a roster at best and that is being kind.
Derozan for many reasons will be a rotation player.
I know its only 1 summer league game but I would break our roster down as follows:
Rotation players:
Jose
Derozan
Hedo
Bosh
Andrea
Evans
Most likely rotation players:
A Wright
Possible rotation Players:
Ukic (based more on contract and potential then performance)
Unlikely Rotation players who may make the squad:
Douby
Obryant
Players who should never see a meaningful minute:
Banks
George
Who will be the next shoe to drop my bet is on Delfino…..
GO RAPS!!!
We should have a Summer League game party! lol
I’m in! lol!
Well that went pretty much as expected. I really didn’t see anything new from any of players that are already under contract.
Ukic looked terrible in the first half, but picked it up a lot in the second. His shot still needs work, but it seems to be improving. He has got to stop bouncing as he moves on defense, it is driving me nuts. Not only is it a waste of energy, it makes it very easy for opposing guards to cut back against him while he bounces in the wrong direction. I have to wonder if the Raptors coaches just aren’t seeing this, or if they simply can’t get through to him that his movement should be entirely side-to-side.
O’Bryant is softer than the finest silk, but he did show a pretty solid post game. He has got some of the worst rebounding instincts that I have ever seen. The guy is seven feet tall, with a massive wing span and has decent hoops. Yet, he just can’t seem to get the damn ball. He makes Bargs look like, Dwight Howard. If we depending on him to play a lot of minutes, I would be worried, but as a fifth forward he is passable.
Douby played decent all around. His shot seemed off, but he still managed to score fairly effectively. Also he handled that ball a lot and was pretty comfortable doing it. Really I don’t expect too much from him and he pretty much meets expectations.
Derozan looked solid. He settle for jumpers a couple of times when he shouldn’t have, but he had a great alley-oop dunk and almost converted and impossible put-back. Morrison had his way with him on defense, but that had more to do with Morrison being on, than with Derozan playing poorly. It’s just one game, but there seems to be reason to hope that he could be a star one day, just not that soon.
Smush Parker made a pretty good case for being on the team. He clearly has talent, on both ends of the floor. Aside from one truely awful pass near the end of the game he was the Raptors best player. I wouldn’t mind at all if BC brought him on board on a minimum contract.
The rest of the players have almost no shot of ever cracking an NBA rotation.
Why in the Fu.ck didn’t Carl English get any playing time????????
“it is what it is” and “sorael”, bravo, good stuff.
I didn’t see him on the bench… he was at the game right?
Roko ukic is getting an opportunty to play in the NBA, without the skill set. Another free ride for a no talent uro. You know what they say when your white your right.
Ricky rubio, if your not going to play in the NBA you should be in or at the draft waisting a teams draft pick. I am sure some deserving college player would of appreciate your spot on a NBA team.
I can pass the ball too. Big deal.
I agree bro it’s complete BS if you ask me when you got all these great Talents being overlooked… it’s sad really
It’s one game. Let’s not judge. As far as I remember, Ukic played well in spurts last year. His drives to the basket are superb.
Rubio probably didn’t like the team that drafted him. That’s the reason.
Wow, you can pass too? That’s incredible. Unique talent.
Rdub, is english a second language?
Why should Rubio who would have essentially been playing for free this year, have to go to an absolutely terribly run team that drafted another guy at his position with the pick right after?
Also can you play and hold your own in an Olympic Gold Medal Game, against probably the second best assemblage of basketball talent?
thats being quite generous saying he would be playing for free… I thought his buyout was in the 4 mil range with Min only able to pickup 500k of that tab. From what I understood Rubio would be playing for Min and losing money if there was no movement from the Euro side on reducing his buyout.
By your logic Rubio should have passed on the draft, if that was the case and for arguments sake all of the remainder of the draftees moved up one slot do you really think that the guy who moves into the last 2nd round pick of the 2009 NBA draft really has a chance of making a team and actually getting some playing time to make a pass better than Rubio has the potential to??
Seriously leave the anti-Euro sentiment at the door… Its basketball, either you can play or you can’t, has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.
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Anyone know where to find a boxscore of tonight’s game?
http://www.nba.com/summerleague2009/games/boxscore.jsp?gameId=1520900003
Douby’s earning every dollar in his contract – before he gets bought-out later this month.
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Hope everyone had a Happy 4th :D
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