Sunday, December 10, 2006
Raps - Blazers @ the Half
Well I'm not sure where to start today. That might have been one of the worst halfs of basketball I've seen the Raps play this season. They were going under screens, which led to numerous uncontested threes, and the rotation on defense was horrendous. When you shoot 32% from the floor you need to work har don the defensive end to keep yourself in the game, and the Raptors did not. They look lost out there without Bosh. Maybe it's a psychological thing; being without their best player. But unless they start fighting through those screens and start making some shots on offense they will lose this very winnable game.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
No lead is safe in Raptorland....
I'm back, for at least an abbreviated post. I'm right in the thick of things right now with finals, labs and papers. So needless to say this blog has been put on the (to steal a Quinnism) back-burner for the time being. I'm all done on the 21st, which will allow me to give this blog the attention is needs.
First I want to adjsut Chuck's foot-in-mouth problem tonight. Chuck, your viewer base is Canadian. So when you make a joke regarding the toughness of hockey players, it make you seem like the annoucer going for the cheap laugh. The problem with it was, no one was laughing. Like it or not Canadians and hockey are like the USA and baseball. And I'm sure you would know better than to bash baseball in the States. The reason -- or at least the reason they gave the media -- MLSE decided to make 24 games exclusive to Raptors TV (stupid move btw) was that they wanted to grow the fan-base outside the GTA. I'm sure insulting hockey players is going to help that.
With the Raptors up by 7 with 5 mins left they gave up two open 3's off Lebron dishes with pretty much swung the game in the Cavs favour. I have no problems with the defence collapsing on Lebron. To steal a suPRAlative from Chuck, he's awesome! However when you do collapse you need to be aware of where the three point shooters are on the floor and the Raptors didn't. You can't leave Marshall and Jones open and let them take uncontested jump shots. Why not let Eric Snow or Varejao beat you instead? The Raps just let a game that was very winnable get away from them.
Props to AP on a great game: 34 min 18-5-3-2 .570
First I want to adjsut Chuck's foot-in-mouth problem tonight. Chuck, your viewer base is Canadian. So when you make a joke regarding the toughness of hockey players, it make you seem like the annoucer going for the cheap laugh. The problem with it was, no one was laughing. Like it or not Canadians and hockey are like the USA and baseball. And I'm sure you would know better than to bash baseball in the States. The reason -- or at least the reason they gave the media -- MLSE decided to make 24 games exclusive to Raptors TV (stupid move btw) was that they wanted to grow the fan-base outside the GTA. I'm sure insulting hockey players is going to help that.
With the Raptors up by 7 with 5 mins left they gave up two open 3's off Lebron dishes with pretty much swung the game in the Cavs favour. I have no problems with the defence collapsing on Lebron. To steal a suPRAlative from Chuck, he's awesome! However when you do collapse you need to be aware of where the three point shooters are on the floor and the Raptors didn't. You can't leave Marshall and Jones open and let them take uncontested jump shots. Why not let Eric Snow or Varejao beat you instead? The Raps just let a game that was very winnable get away from them.
Props to AP on a great game: 34 min 18-5-3-2 .570
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