The idea is to “defend the house” and then run the shooters off the 3-point line. Quick help, very quick recovery.

It is the failure of implementing this properly which leads to open 3-pt shots.

I like everything… except your take on Jack’s 4-8 shooting night. He missed 2 layups (too short to dunk) (sigh) and bricked 2 shots. He made up for it with a bit of pressure on Rondo, but the guy doesn’t seem to play within his limitations, worrying.

If I was disappointed by anyone, it was Jack. Amir needs room to operate, and Boston is great at taking that away on both sides of the court, so it’s not a surprise that he struggled. But Jack disappointed.

Utterly unclutch
Very limited game, pump fake drive/pump fake fade. Take 10 seconds off the clock while he goes through the routine,
For some reason never replicates the efforts he expended on the Olympic squad on his actual paying team.
Lets WAAAAAAAAAY too many players get in his head: Garnet, Rasheed, Varejao and a host of others.

Soccer players are paid millions of dollars and in fact EPL superstars play the whole 90 minutes every match and they don’t make excuses when they lose. I know this is kind of off-topic, what I’m trying to say is that, every Raptors players should put a lot of effort on practice and games and transform themselves as a arrogant, selfish, and think ‘I am the best’ guy on the team and in the league. Look at Allen Iverson, he has that kind of mentality that’s why his team always appear in the playoffs and even appeared in 2001 NBA Finals. The Raptors squad has the skills, no doubt, that’s why they’re in the league. But really, they need to portray as the ‘bad boys’ like back in Chuck Daly’s days. Another good example is Floyd Mayweather Jr. — this great future hall of fame always do the trash talking in every press conference and during weigh-in — look at him, he never loses a fight. It’s all about the attitude, like yelling to opponent’s face, breaking the opponent’s self-esteem, and doing physical plays are proven things in every sports on winning games.

These 15 Raptors players need to read 48 Laws of Power, 33 Strategies of War, Art of War, and Atlas Shrugged as their last assignment in preseason. These books should be a mandatory reading during flights for road games and after practice.

I’m just wondering where the hell “Pizza Pizza” came from.

Agreed. In fact, I hate to use another Piston to solidify your point, but Tayshaun Prince is the exact 3 you are talking about.

I think our “core” will begin surpass theirs in the next two years, and complete do so in the 3-4 years. Until than, I expect the C**tics to hand us losses, but not ‘ass-whippings’ like yesterdays game.

This would never be tolerated by the all time great Power forwards. Loosing 9 of 10 to Boston

Now we get a proven Turkoglu, we get some rebounding, a bit of defense, some toughness and were back to our same old habits of losing games. Colangelo is bending over backwards for Bosh and he does nothing with the help.

Give Dwayne Wade our players currently and I gaurantee you they go to the conference finals.

Bosh will just lead them to dead last in the east, as usual.

He made a 20 foot shoot last night.

In fact in 2007 in his first NBA start he made 2 out of 3 from beyond the arc.

He has good form on his foul shot. Yes he had that one bad game that he missed 5 in a row but other than than he is something like 10 out 12 from the free throw line.

I do agree his handles are weak but this is because he was excluded from the Pistons offense ever since he joined the team. You don’t have to put 20 ppg to be an effective #3. You just need to outplay your opponent and help your team win.

In any case it is all moot now as he is probably stuck at the #4 and #5 and will be gone come next summer, probably out of the league. Europe would be a possibility unless some NBA team just wants him on the roster as a practice player and Duffy, his agent, can talk him into taking the NBA minimum.

Disgusting! Distasteful! Unprofessional!

One of the many reasons why I hate the C***tics