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Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – Mar 20

“We don’t have any resistance,” Chris Bosh said “We let guys walk down into the post, we let guys go by us with no resistance. There’s no resistance. It’s just too easy.”

Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – Mar 19

“We need him to focus,” head coach Jay Triano said. “When we were rolling, he was doing more things and it becomes a confidence building thing for him. If he’s not making shots (he has to) do something else so we can keep him on the floor. Defend, be there on the help side, rebound and box out.

Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – Mar 18

“He wanted the basketball,” Raptors coach Jay Triano said, “and we gave it to him.”

Bottoms up, Raps luck one out in the 4th

Like so many times this year, the Toronto Raptors pulled out a game at home that they probably shouldn’t have. Yes, they got lucky on St. Patrick’s day at the end, but for a while it looked like they’d had a few brews at halftime, laying down another clunker in the third quarter.

Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – Mar 17

“It doesn’t matter who starts, it doesn’t matter who plays more minutes, we’ve got to win games. We’re upset because we’re losing games. We’re not upset because I’m not playing or I’m not starting”.

Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – Mar 16

"No. What else do you want me to do?" he said. "Do you want me to score 30, 40 points a game? Twenty blocks a game? That's not my game. That's not what I do. I try to get these guys going, and that's pretty much it. I'm not weak-minded by any means.

Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – Mar 15

“I thought Jose was playing pretty darn well,” said Triano. “I thought we had a good rhythm with that group so I just rolled with it. When he was on the floor, I thought we were playing pretty darn good.” However, the coach stopped short of confirming a permanent shift for Wednesday’s game at home against Atlanta.

Toronto Raptors Morning Coffee – March 14

“We come out here, we talk about it, we have a billion meetings but we can talk all we want. Unless we do it, it really doesn’t matter. We talk about the third quarter, we talked about the third quarter (Friday), we talked about it at shootaround (Saturday) and we go out and do the same thing. I don’t know.”