27 Nov 2009

Raptors Roll Call Nov 27 vs Celtics

The “well, at lease we now know our coaches have more balls than our players” edition.

Banks – least he could have done is rushed on to the floor and attacked somebody. So what if they suspend him?

Bargnani – yikes. I said earlier in the day that if he remained in a haze, it would be a long night. He wasn’t in a haze, he was in a mineshaft with his helmet light on low. 7pts and 4rebs are actually overstating his game, if you can believe it. No passion except for one play where Garnett made him look like a bitch, KG clapped loudly and AB went up and walked right into him. Spellbinding stuff.

Belinelli – Marcoooooooo….come out and plaaaayyyyyyyyy. His play of late makes you wonder if he got a call from Don Nelson checking in to see how he liked Toronto. Much like Bargs, Beli gave us next to nothing tonight. You can’t disappear against great teams when you play on a good (bordering on mediocre) one.

Bosh – not a bad game, but max players find ways to not allow their teams to go 7 minutes without scoring and don’t step into the court while inbounding under your own basket. Granted, they didn’t get him the ball, but that is when you DEMAND the ball. Pull your guys in and remind them who the boss is. 20/13 against guys who normally own you is fine, but don’t let KG run roughshod over you early on and we keep this game close in the end. For that alone, he deserved the knee from Pierce. (okay, not really)

Calderon – poor start, a quick yank, but he did come back and play well on the offensive end. No surprise that Rondo made Jose look like a front door security guy at Best Buy on Black Friday, but at least Calderon didn’t make you groan each and every time Boston set up in the halfcourt. His turnovers continue to mount, though. 4 assists, 3 turnovers.

DeRozan – Lighthouse did no worse than anybody else (except Bargs). That one cut in the basket should end up on the Raptors internal hilight reel just to remind Jay that, you know, this kid is an athlete and might do some stuff with his hands on the ball.

Evans – faker….but you just know he wishes he was in Boston to say hello to Paul Pierce.

Jack – 18pts, 5 assists. He drove, he kicked, he committed a hard foul. The only thing he didn’t do was smack Andrea upside the head and ask “wtf?”. Solid game, played defense no worse than any of his backcourt mates, and tried to instil his will.

Johnson – on a 9-0 Boston run, and out of a timeout, who is the last person wearing a Raptor uniform you want to see running an offensive play? Like Reggie Evans, he needs to know his role: dig and put back, but don’t ever EVER think you are a ball handler or a run stopper.

Mensah-Bonsu – played 5 minutes of pretty munch inconsequential basketball. You know, I was wrong…he DOES deserve to be a Raptor.

Nesterovic – the difference maker. If not for Rasho, this would have been a 30pt blowout. Rasho played well enough to keep Andrea nailed to the bench in the fourth and was a major, if not the whole, reason we had a shot late in this game. He was boxing out, he was attacking on the boards and he was making chippies. Great game.

O’Bryant – insert blank stare here.

Turkoglu- offensively, he was a beast. 8 of 11 for 20 points. He was 2/2 from three in the first and actually made his shots look effortless. However, 7 turnovers. Yes, seven. Not that turnovers are ever good, but half of his were horribly timed and kept giving the Celts reason to live.

Weems – you know how useless a hat is in a tornado? Well, Sonny was a beenie in a hurricane.

Wright – another one of our X factor players that played like a z tonight. Would have been great to see him come out and light it up offensively, to feed off of being left fairly wide open. Instead: nothing. We need him against Phoenix. Time to bring it.

Driving The Bus:  Rasho Nesterovic

Under The Bus:  Andrea Bargnani

Game Theme:

64 Raps

  1. tmk says:

    Why is Jack ‘Under the Bus’?

  2. CoolHandLuke says:

    How is Jarret JAck under the bus? More like Bargs…

  3. Blind Man says:

    Hope this lighthouse thing doesn’t linger as long as the VL one did. Maybe focus on analysis more than being hilarious.

    • AltRaps says:

      As soon as he starts to show that he deserves to be a starter and improves his obvious weaknesses, I’ll change it up. And, if you check any of the past RC’s into last year, you’ll never find one that referred to Bargs as VL.

      This isn’t an analysis. Never has been, never will be. The post game is for that…but they call Bargs VL.

  4. MOBCHESTER says:

    yeah why is jack under the bus anyways the boson big’s really used Bargani as their turkey dinner for thanksgiving and for some reason we can’t score in the 3rd quater like wtf is going on we just can’t score during the 3rd quater

  5. shahinc says:

    I give all respect in the world to Jay tonight for coming out and defending his player. That being said, when his team is up 4 in the 3 rd quarter and Celtics started their run, why did he wait till we are down 5 before calling the time out ??
    I think this team has toughness issues and some focus issues. As for toughness, there is nothing the coach can do but as far as focus, Jay should keep a tight hold on them.
    On the final note, I was embaressed that no player stood up for the Captian. Can’t wait till Artest spank Pierce in the finals.

  6. TheR3dMenace says:

    I was at the game tonight. There was absolutely no edge-i-ness by either team. It was like both teams decided to go out and play at pre-season intensity. A pathetic display of professional basketball

  7. JYFelony says:

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we absolutely need Reggie Evans in there to set the defensive tone. Even if he’s only in there for 10 minutes a game, he’ll let everyone else know that we can’t allow anyone to have lay-ups and dunks over and over again. We didn’t deserve to be in this game after the first half, such a weak and gutless effort. I’m glad that Triano stepped up for Bosh and all, but hopefully that’s a wake-up call that our team is getting disrespected on a regular basis in the league and until we step up and lay a hard foul on someone it’s going to keep happening. I promise you that Reggie will lay the lumber on someone in his first game back! Man I wish that would be sooner rather than later…

  8. RYE says:

    Why the fuck don’t these guys ever play with some fight in them even after they’ve been pushed around?! When Jack Armstrong is telling the TV world that you’re getting punked, that’s very bad. Get some balls guys! It would be worth it for Bosh to be suspended for 3 games for punching Pierce in the neck if it get his team to play like men with passion for once.

    • FAQ says:

      RuPaul Bosh and his girly-boy team ….???!!!!

    • shahinc says:

      I don’t think Bosh had anyting left in him after the knee. It took him few minutes to get up. This was the job of his teammates which all failed

  9. FAQ says:

    Jack Armstrong observed: “The Raptors are a team without an identity.”

    IOW .. they are not really a “team” … just another one of BC’s experiments.

    It’s still early in the season … things can get a lot worse ….

    • Truth says:

      Jack Armstrong was being generous… the Raptors do have an identity: We play Soft Euroball. All offense No Defense! At least in Europe, defenders would throw elbows and showed toughness.

      • FAQ says:

        But the big nasty dudes don’t wanna play in Canada … the prefer their own hoods … an Tarawna ain’t cool … except in the wintertime.

  10. cloako says:

    I guess the refs could have missed the Pierce knee to Bosh.

    The first two third quarter possessions by the raps were contested in the small circle in the paint. There could have been a foul call on either play or not

    But the play where Bosh stepped on the endline while inbounding the ball and the refs misses it for five seconds until a Celtics player pointed out their mistake?

    Never seen anything like it

  11. Bendit says:

    Maybe no one cooked Bargnani his pasta “just the way he likes it”. The company sponsoring that ad(which seems to be on a constant loop on Raps tv) should get it off pronto or have their sales go into the toilet.

    • yertu damkule says:

      +1

      it’s a toss-up as to which ad is more to-the-core annoying, andrea in full uniform chowing down on his penne pasta, or any ad with galen weston. that fuckhole better hope he never happens to be crossing the street in front of me…

      oh yeah, the game. meh. the c**ts, as big a collection of douches as they are, play like MEN. raps play like their nuggets haven’t dropped yet. what was with jose’s bobby-hurley-versus-UNLV impersonation? i mean, it’s one thing to go cold for periods of time, it’s another to let your opponent intimidate you to the point the ball never gets inside the 3-pt line. on the play AJ tried to create, jose handed him the ball 30-feet from the hoop & disappeared, and no one else could be bothered to get off their check to help him out. AJ had no passing lanes, couldn’t shoot, so his only option was to try to do ’something.’

      and are we sure hedo is an actual ‘playmaker?’ i mean, for the raps…i saw him make all kinds of plays for the c**ts. just because he can handle the ball, does that automatically make him a good decision-maker…cause some of his passes looked like they were stolen from the 40-&-over YMCA playbook…just lazy, bone-headed passes that you wouldn’t make against a shitty defensive team, let alone the c**ts.

      ah, fuck it. failfailfailfailfailfailfailfail

  12. MOBCHESTER says:

    when your starting center is a 7 foot fucking Vegetable Lasgan pussy you not going to label as a tough team and you not going to win that many games trade his ass package him and demar to denver for nene and j.r smith

    • skip says:

      I’m sure Denver would jump at that opportunity….I’m not sure they’d take DD & VL for either Nene OR JR

  13. Cake says:

    I can only say after watching the game today that I wrote a piece when we played the Bobcats about what we need to address on this team. The problem is Calderon and Bargnani. We have probably the worst PG on defence in the league oh and Bargnani is great when his shots are falling which is what 33% of the time. He cant defend his position and if he cant score as evident today he might as well not be on the court. Best more for the Raps is to either sit Jose and start for his defence or sit Bargnani and start Rasho or Amir on some of the games.

    • poolthief says:

      “oh and Bargnani is great when his shots are falling which is what 33% of the time”

      Before tonight’s game there were only 4 players in the NBA who were averaging more PPG with a higher eFG% (None of them were named Chris Bosh). So far this season Andrea has been one of the most efficient scorers in the game, and yet this team team doesn’t even try to get him touches.

      He didn’t get a single look in the first 7 and half minutes of tonight’s game before going to the bench. He took 1 shot in the first half…. 7 other players had taken more including Antoine Wright. This has happened in at least 9-10 or more games already.

      The only reason he’s not scoring around 20+ every single night is because he hasn’t been receiving consistent touches throughout the course of games. Why on earth would you go away from that strength and keep him out there if he can’t make up for it on the defensive end?

      • RapthoseLeafs says:

        .

        I’m in agreement with you on that.
        And maybe I’m too easy on Bargs, but I don’t agree with him being under the Bus. Maybe I saw a different game, but for the 23 minutes – where Bargnani took a GRAND TOTAL of 6 shots – I thought he played pretty decent. 3 blocked shots, and some pretty good man coverage. He wasn’t scoring, so I guess that meant … time to yank him. Can’t figure out that strategy.

        As I think Leo stated during the Charlotte game, AB is averaging 19.6 ppg for the Raps 7 wins, and only 14.9 for 10 losses. Logic would suggest we start to feed him a little more. Watching these last 3 games, reinforces my belief in that logic.

        .

      • Macy O'Baston says:

        The first half wasn’t the problem. Who gives a shit if he wasn’t getting shots then, everyone else was and they were good looks that went in.

        His defense is bad. Man D in the post decent, but his hedges on the PnR is horrible. He doesn’t show on the ballhandler, nor does he stay on his own man. He just floats in between and lets the opponent decide what shot they want to take. Can’t win in the NBA like that.

    • jhigh says:

      The defense sucked with and without bargnani so to pin all our defensive shortcomings on him is simplistic which many of you are.

      I have been a big advocate of AB however if the Raps aren’t going to run any plays to take advantage of the skills he does have they might as well trade him. I don’t think he touched the ball for the first 6 minutes of the game.

      Calderon is the one I am now worried about – we could live with his defensive deficiencies when he doesn’t turn the ball over which he is now doing. you can’t defend the layups he has given the other team the last two games. He hasn’t taken enough heat for this in my opinion. I think either he should be made the backup (starting Jack and Hedo being the primary ball handler) or traded.

      • OCEAN says:

        ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THIS EUROBALL EXPERIMENT IS A COMPLETE FAILURE. THIS CITY DERSERVES A TEAM THAT FIGHTS EVERYNIGHT. WHERE ARE WE IMPORTING THESE ITALIANS FROM. THE ONE’S I KNOW HAVE ATTITUDE AND SWAG ABOUT THEM. THE RAPTOR ITALIANS HAVE BACKBONES THAT ARE AS STRONG AS A WET PASTA NOODLE. NO ROCKY’S IN THE BUNCH!!!! NO EYE OF THE TIGER, NO GODFATHER SPIRIT. GEEZ. TRADE CALDERON FOR MONTA ELLIS. START JACK AND TURK.

  14. Truth says:

    U let Paul Pierce posterize u??? That was probably the biggest poster by P^2 I have every seen. Sometime you gotta pull a Shaq and mull the opposing player. I smell a 4 game losing streak in the making…

    • Truth says:

      Sorry I forgot we play the Hawks after Suns and Wiz… so make it a 5 game slide.

    • poiter says:

      Ok, you try continuing to jump, maintain concentration and contest a dunk when your testicles have just exploded

      • mattfann says:

        “Ok, you try continuing to jump, maintain concentration and contest a dunk when your testicles have just exploded”

        Well said, ROTD

  15. Jojo says:

    Something’s gotta give sooner or later. This team is an absolute joke on defence and even though BC clearly has no concept of how to build a balanced team (see core pieces and starting lineup), he has too much pride to let this go on for much longer. The buck stops with him though, and he better realize fans are pretty sick and tired of trying to root for a perennial creampuff of a team.

  16. Dragan says:

    It is sad, but this team can be watched ONLY if you don’t have any expectations. If you have, it is just so painful and humiliating. Thanks Colangelo.

    • FAQ says:

      Why do you find watching the Raptors “so painful and humiliating”??? … you aren’t a player … only a t.h. fan who fantasizes with your #4 jersey and spotless Nikes that will never see a bball court.

  17. Photoman says:

    I am so sick of the lack of any backbone from this bunch!!! Jay proved tonight that he’s more of a man than any of the players. I am a firm believer that the poor defense is not the result of bad coaching. These jokers just don’t have that fire that MJ, Kobe, or Wade have.

    • Joey says:

      When Hedo Turkeyglue was playing with Howard last year he was competitive and wanted to win every game. And those 2 took there team to the finals.

      He comes to Toronto to play with Bosh and now they will not make the playoffs and Hedo has this lackadaisical attitude and does not give a shit about winning.

      Is it Bosh making his teammates worse, Hedo not having heart, the system, the players…?

      • OCEAN says:

        ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THIS EUROBALL EXPERIMENT IS A COMPLETE FAILURE. THIS CITY DERSERVES A TEAM THAT FIGHTS EVERYNIGHT. WHERE ARE WE IMPORTING THESE ITALIANS FROM. THE ONE’S I KNOW HAVE ATTITUDE AND SWAG ABOUT THEM. THE RAPTOR ITALIANS HAVE BACKBONES THAT ARE AS STRONG AS A WET PASTA NOODLE. NO ROCKY’S IN THE BUNCH!!!! NO EYE OF THE TIGER, NO GODFATHER SPIRIT. GEEZ. TRADE CALDERON FOR MONTA ELLIS. START JACK AND TURK.

    • FAQ says:

      What you see is what you get … and this may be the best that Toronto will get … a bunch of Euros … US players from teams that don’t want them … and of course, draft picks.

      With so many new players, this is only a development team … so don’t expect anything much from them now … maybe in a couple of years.

  18. Joey says:

    It’s very simple. Colangelo is not qualified to be a general manager of an NBA franchise. The guy knows absolute dick all about constructing a competitive team. When he was thrown out by Phoenix ( Don’t believe the story that he walked out on his own ) no other owner wanted to interview him for a Job. He was hired by MLSE because he was able to make Phoenix profitable (6th in the L)

    He’s an infant in regards to the NBA game. How do you give contract extensions to people who are not qualified to play in the NBA? And an extension to a coach who is not qualified to coach the NBA game?

    The guy is a real idiot. You want a guy who knows about building teams look at Kevin Pritchard, Otis Smith, RC Buford, Sam Presti, Danny Ainge, Danny Ferry, and now John Hammond of the Milwaukee Bucks has figured it out.

    • FAQ says:

      But this is the best Toronto can get from the NBA … so why do you expect better …???!!!!

    • Macy O'Baston says:

      Danny Ferry? When you hope for a GM like Danny Ferry or John Hammond then it proves your ignorance. He was handed a team with LeBron, so he must be good!

    • J says:

      LOTD. LOL!

      You’re really funny, you know that? Too bad you’re not very logical at the same time.

      “no other owner wanted to interview him for a Job. He was hired by MLSE because he was able to make Phoenix profitable (6th in the L)”

      Wait, so even though his team was sixth in profits, no owner wanted to touch him? Guess those owners aren’t as interested in making money as they are in feeeeelings.

      “Kevin Pritchard, Otis Smith, RC Buford, Sam Presti, Danny Ainge, Danny Ferry, and now John Hammond”

      LMAO. Lemme see now…

      - Kevin Pritchard is probably a good GM, but he has a lot of help from Paul Allen. While other teams are busy selling draft picks, he has the green light to buy them up. Also showed his decision-making when he threatened the entire league with a lawsuit if they signed Miles last season.

      - Otis Smith would have had a much harder time if he didn’t inherit from the previous GM one of the top two or three players that most GMs would want to build their team around today. You also can’t say he planned the direction of the team so that he’d have enough cap space to take Rashard Lewis off Seattle’s hands for nothing. Take a look at his moves and draft picks. Mediocre at best and that’s only because of Courtney Lee.

      - Danny Ainge… you mean the same Ainge that was viewed as a joke until he lucked into Garnett and Allen? Okay.

      - Danny Ferry, like Smith, inherited the #1 player in the league and has done WHAT exactly with the team since then? Failed on Hughes, failed on Ben Wallace, and now failing on Shaq. When your best move is Anthony Parker, that says a lot.

      - John Hammond was hoping Flynn would drop to the 10th spot. When you have to resort to your backup choice and it pans out the way it has, it’s called luck. Too bad nobody helped him out with Joe Alexander.

      Your argument is only as strong as the weakest link, and when only maybe half of the names you mentioned are actually good GMs, well… you know the rest.

  19. shahinc says:

    watch the interveiws after the game :
    1) What is up with the popcorn story ?? It seems like there is more going on behind the secne.

    2) Bosh on the bench reaction !!! and also the frustration on his face.

    3) Wright: on the bench reaction !!!

    From here now on, Either this team is going to get tough or loss it all together. I am not sure which !!!

  20. wsg says:

    I wonder if that elbow-to-the-kidneys, kick-her-when-she’s-down, hair-pulling soccer chick needs a job? Maybe she’d be willing to teach a group of professional basketball players how to do what … sometimes just needs to be done?

    I only wish.

    • Joey says:

      If this were a television program The Celtics would be Tony Soprano. The Raptors would be Hannah Montana. A team can only come together when all parties involved,from your starters to your bench are all willing to do whatever it takes to win a game, absolutely anything. And you don’t even have to be a superstar or all star but just show some heart.

      And people trash Michael Jordan for his HOF speech. That shit inspired me when my college teacher made me watch it. His confidence is contagious and sure he was cocky and arrogant but that’s what makes you successful.

      Every Raptor should watch that speech tonight and study it.

      • wsg says:

        You might’ve just identified where that extra edge the Bobcats are showing lately has come from. With Michael Jordan around, they probably know that speech inside-out. And after thrashing the crap out of the Raptors the other night, they went out and thumped the Cavs tonight.

        • Bendit says:

          I have a feeling that the Bobcats resurgence has more to do with getting Jackson than anything else. Wallace now has another talented tough guy to work with.

  21. Statement says:

    I am in no way trying to be all doom-and-gloom and overreacting,

    But does this feel like a potential death-blow to the team? I mean, the post-game interviews had a different aura to them, an an aura of desperation or something.

    I try to be as objective as the next guy regarding sports, but sometimes I just get these feelings like “Damn that was a mortal injury to the team”

    It’s like this loss, although just a loss – and a loss that was probably predicted by everybody – just took the wind out of our sails.

    Am I alone on this?

    • wsg says:

      No, Statement. I don’t think you’re alone on this at all. I’ve been grappling with a cold, uncomfortable sense somewhere between my guts and my head, since that very moment of Bosh going down and then seeing NObody come to his defense to do anything at all about it. (And the coach just doesn’t count.)

      I’m not sure what it is but … it feels a bit like … I’ve lost my honk.

  22. Stephan says:

    I have said it before and tonight proves it. Raptors stands for “pu$$y#” in this league.

    Your best player gets kneed in the effing junk and the player who did it comes over and flexes over him and you don’t do anything?

    WOW

    I care about our Wins and Losses as much as the next fan, but I’d rather just have a team that doesn’t back down, a team with some toughness. Jump shots by bigs are nice, but in your face fouls and ‘don’t come and play us and think you will get an easy win’, are things I sorely miss in here in TO.

    You think we can find some hockey players that can dribble a ball??

    • Rey says:

      Seriously what do you expect the players to do? Run over there and start throwing punches? Or pretending to fight? You stand up for yourself in the NBA by coming out aggressively and winning games. These are suspend-able offenses in the NBA. This is not the NHL where they allow the players to grab each others jerseys and start punching away at the helmet.

      • Bendit says:

        Yes, but did the intensity pickup any after the incident….you know…the hard pick with a subtle elbow or the hard foul while shooting …just to let the thugs on the other team know that your team wont take that sh&*? Lets face it, the Raps get intimidated..and its not just by the Celts. And it really starts with the main guy on the team.

  23. Red Baron says:

    Not making excuses for him because his overall effort/intensity was horrible against beantown, but I wonder if Bargs’ lack of effort lately is coming from being frustrated by lack of touches on offence. I find it beyond puzzling each game how he doesn’t get many looks or plays run for him? Why in the world have an offensive minded center (the boy can flat out score despite was some people want to think) and not run plays for him? It’s like trading for Ben Wallace (circa 2005)and having him guarding point-guards on the perimeter on D, and then try to run plays for him to launch 3 pointers on O…it just doesn’t make sense.

  24. AnonymousCoward says:

    Please let Chris Bosh free :( He is a great player, and I want to see him win. Also:

    1) The current personnel really doesn’t fit together.
    2) Bargnani would play better if Bosh were gone.
    3) Trading Bosh might allow you to dump the bad contracts of Calderon, Hedo and Banks.

    Perhaps a package with Orlando, Dallas, Houston, or Miami?

    I know it sucks to see yet another star leave, but this just won’t work.

    Like a bad marriage, sometimes you got to know when to know to end it.

    And if you think I’m trolling, ask if in your heart of hearts you if you see this team contending anytime within the next 5 years (barring DD morphing into young Kobe and Amir into current Josh Smith.) The personnel simply doesn’t fit together

    • OCEAN says:

      ARE YOUR CRAZY. THE ONLY GUY THAT SHOWS EMOTION ON A TEAM OF PLAYERS THAT LOOK LIKE THERE WATCHING PAINT DRY. NO PASSION. I THOUGHT ITALIANS WERE PASSIONATE?? I GUESS IT’S ONLY FOR SOCCER(FOOTBALL) AND SPAGHETTI. WHERE’S THAT GODFATHER, THAT I’M NOT TAKING YOUR SHIT.. WHAT!!! ATTITUDE. THESE GUYS PLAY LIKE A BUNCH FAMILY MEN PLAYING BALL AT THE YMCA. YOU TALK ABOUT TOUGHNESS, YET ALL THE TOUGHNESS IS ON THE BENCH. OAKLEY WAS RIGHT. YOU CAN’T WIN WITH ALL SCORERS IN THE LINE UP. PLAYERS NEED TO KNOW THERE ROLLS. TRADE CALDRON. GET MONTA ELLIS.. SHOULD’VE GOT STEPHEN JACKSON TOO. PLAYERS WITH ATTITUDE, THAT PLAY LIKE THERE GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS. EATING POPCORN BEFORE THE GAME??? COME ON.

      • Pizzaman says:

        You make alot of sense…let’s bring in all the hoods including Iverson and Marbury too. We may win a few games even though no one would want their kids to watch the games

  25. brothersteve says:

    Enough of the Bullcrap.

    This loss is more on the porous defense from CB4 and the abysmal coaching from Triano than anything Bargs did in his 23 minutes last night. Triano just punted 2 road games with his bizarre line-ups.

    In Boston, CB4 looked like he couldn’t stop a high PG in the post. Under the bus – CB4 was under everything the Celts drove his way all evening!

    Something is rotten in Rapsland and it has nothing to do with with Jose or Andrea.

    And for all the complaining about no one getting Bosh’s back:
    - first if you leave the bench you get suspended, why would anybody give a dollar off their salary to run on to the floor and pretend to fight.
    - second CB4 is in a contract year and it’s beginning to look and sound like that’s all that matters.

    • Bendit says:

      “Something is rotten in Rapsland and it has nothing to do with with Jose or Andrea.”

      Are you saying that the team knows CB is leaving/having a leadership issue internally and hence what went down (no coming to his defense) as well as bad ball defense are symptoms?

      Next game should be revealing. If bad defense and a blowout re-occurs, its curtains until a big change happens.

    • Pizzaman says:

      I agree totally. I’m sick of all the excuses for Bosh while he plays crappy defense and calls out the rest of the team. Why would anyone on this team stand up for that baby who never ever gives it up for someone else. He is quick to blame but should look in the mirror. This teams record is directly attributable to Bosh and Triano for going back to the old ways of feeding Bosh everything. Bosh could’nt pass out of a double team if the defenders were midgets.
      First few games of the season everyone here was talking about Bargnani being the number one option on offence and Bosh being the rebounder which of course didn’t sit well with CB4, so they’re back to the usual which has never worked and everyone here finds it easy to blame Bargnani for everything. I saw the same game and Bargs was far from the worst defender. He kept his man in front of him and blocked three shots while his teamates overlooked getting him involved in the offence and his coach yanked his confidence again. BS.

    • OCEAN says:

      HOW CAN YOU BLAME CB4?? WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR FINESE POWER FORWARD?? HOW CAN YOUR TEAM WIN IN ANY MEN’S LEAGUE PLAYING LIKE BOYS?? FINESE PG, FINESE SMALL FORWARD, FINESE CENTER, FINESE POWER FORWARD. WEAK, WEAK, WEAK, WEAK.. LET’S TANK THE YEAR AND GET THE NUMBER ONE PICK.. JOHN WALL BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  26. Bendit says:

    So, who’s eating the popcorn before games? Any guesses? And is it Jose m/waving the baggies and distributing them like the good teammate he is?

    And shouldn’t JT be monitoring the attitude in the room before the game and put an end to the excessive levity…especially after previous blowouts?

    Would KG allow his team to have the munchies before gametime?

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