PG: The streak lives

Tenacious_C · Post #31 » by **Tenacious_C** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:44 am

2nd night of a back to back, at the end of a mini-western road swing.....and we're not very good...Not unexpected.

ATLTimekeeper · Post #32 » by **ATLTimekeeper** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:46 am

Ah well, we played defense at least. I wasn't expecting much.

Post #33 » by **Undefeated** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:47 am

Liked what I saw from Julian Wright. Moves his feet, and is active on defense which is quite nice to see.

J-Roc · Post #34 » by **J-Roc** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:47 am

Tenacious_C wrote:2nd night of a back to back, at the end of a mini-western road swing.....and we're not very good...Not unexpected.

You only needed to mention the 2nd point. No one can argue if the boys tried. They did. They suck.

As for the players, we can expect these guys to be hot and cold all season. Everyone's on Amir's nuts the last two nights, but where was he before that? Jose has looked better, but that's just vs slower PG's. Andrea was average again.

Relentless88 · Post #35 » by **Relentless88** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:48 am

Courtside · Post #36 » by **Courtside** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:52 am

Choker wrote:Holy crap just checked the boxscore, everyone is playing like shyt, DeRozan, Kleiza, and Bargnani in particular.

At the half, Kleiza, Jack, DeRozan and Barbosa were a combined 3-18, while Bargs was 5-10 and even those 10 points were largely self generated rather than assisted plays.

In the second half, nothing changed and after moving up to 6-12, Bargs was ignored entirely. He came back in the 4th and tried to continue the run, but missed everything because he was completely out of the flow - and likely as tired as everyone else. He was -24, but played a game high in minutes that was pretty much entirely with Jack and DeRozan who are the next worst at -23 and -17 in 27 minutes each.

I'm not excusing Bargs - he got softer as the game went on - but could have done a whole lot more before the game got completely out of reach if they ran some kind of offense instead of the guard heavy free for all. For the second night in a row - aside from Calderon - it was like a summer league game out there on offense. Jack's stats are very misleading as he was like 1-5 in tghe first half and even in the second, largely ignored the open players and forced it way too often, making a pass that led to a contested shot instead of the smart, open one.

Calderon is the only one who had a good game, I think. Oh, and Julian Wright (when he wasn't botching a fast break) is starting to show a little something.

D-Wins-RingsIMO · Post #37 » by **D-Wins-RingsIMO** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:53 am

5DOM wrote:I hope we play

Jack
Barbosa
Weems
Kleiza
Evans

at the same time. More shots than passes probably

why is Evans in there when he takes 2 shots a game but not Bargs who takes our most shots? Oh right, agenda time.

hyper316 · Post #38 » by **hyper316** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 4:55 am

nice, raptors tied for worst record in east. draft 2011 here we come

overdose · Post #39 » by **overdose** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:00 am

GOOD= streak is alive & one step closer to a high pick

BAD= everything else

UGLY= Demar with only 2 points on 1-10 shooting...smh & the whole team looked tired

no excuses but they were playing in a tuff situation with the second game of a back to back against two elite teams

RapsFanInVA · Post #40 » by **RapsFanInVA** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:00 am

Again, I like this team because they are easy to predict. Of course they were going to lose to the Blazers on a back to back, no disappointment here.

J-Roc · Post #41 » by **J-Roc** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:01 am

Brandon Roy. What the **** you gonna do?

ATLTimekeeper · Post #42 » by **ATLTimekeeper** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:04 am

What's with all these other teams sucking, too? I thought it was just supposed to be us and Minnesota.

Mr.Raptorsingh · Post #43 » by **Mr.Raptorsingh** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:17 am

ATLTimekeeper wrote:What's with all these other teams sucking, too? I thought it was just supposed to be us and Minnesota.

Yeah, you don't need to look any further than the East. Some of the bad teams out West are better than their record shows. The Rockets, for example, are what, 0-5? They are better than that. Heck, the Clippers are better than what their record indicates. Same thing applies to the Grizzlies, imo. I feel like I'm missing some team out West, but yeah, only the Wolves truly suck in that conference.

In the East...wow, do we have some bad teams. I'm not even going to mention them all, but only the Heat, Knicks, Hawks, Celtics, and Magic have more than 2 wins.

michaelc204 · Post #44 » by **michaelc204** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:20 am

Someone needs to teach Derozan another move. His spin move is so predictable, especially since he can only spin one way :lol:

Enfur · Post #45 » by **Enfur** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:39 am

Man it would sure be nice if we had a player we could just dump the ball to and have him score instead of relying on a bunch of crappy players to try and create and then just turn it over.

Kabookalu · Post #46 » by **Kabookalu** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:42 am

Courtside wrote:
Choker wrote:Holy crap just checked the boxscore, everyone is playing like shyt, DeRozan, Kleiza, and Bargnani in particular.

At the half, Kleiza, Jack, DeRozan and Barbosa were a combined 3-18, while Bargs was 5-10 and even those 10 points were largely self generated rather than assisted plays.

In the second half, nothing changed and after moving up to 6-12, Bargs was ignored entirely. He came back in the 4th and tried to continue the run, but missed everything because he was completely out of the flow - and likely as tired as everyone else. He was -24, but played a game high in minutes that was pretty much entirely with Jack and DeRozan who are the next worst at -23 and -17 in 27 minutes each.

I'm not excusing Bargs - he got softer as the game went on - but could have done a whole lot more before the game got completely out of reach if they ran some kind of offense instead of the guard heavy free for all. For the second night in a row - aside from Calderon - it was like a summer league game out there on offense. Jack's stats are very misleading as he was like 1-5 in tghe first half and even in the second, largely ignored the open players and forced it way too often, making a pass that led to a contested shot instead of the smart, open one.

Calderon is the only one who had a good game, I think. Oh, and Julian Wright (when he wasn't botching a fast break) is starting to show a little something.

Thanks for the recap, sounds like the same thing that's been happening for years so I believe every detail.

Gang of Four · Post #47 » by **Gang of Four** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 5:59 am

It is really amazing to see the Raptor's play actual defense this year, and really good defense at times (while Jose frickin' Calderon is on the floor no less), compared to all of last year where defense seemed totally non-existent.

CB4Champ · Post #48 » by **CB4Champ** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 6:41 am

Man People, What a Game.

Demar just did not have it, He needs to show more if he is going to be a Franchise changing player.

Bargs was frozen out but really He relies on jumpers way too much.

Thanks to Jack for saving our 3 streak. If we reach a 1000 games then that will be a feat worth mentioning. Hope we can do it because 950 does not sound as "Nice" as an even 1000. Thanks again Jack.

dawn_wan · Post #49 » by **dawn_wan** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 7:08 am

missed the game @_@
glad i did too =)

Too Late Crew · Post #50 » by **Too Late Crew** » Sun Nov 7, 2010 11:45 am

Enfur wrote:Man it would sure be nice if we had a player we could just dump the ball to and have him score instead of relying on a bunch of crappy players to try and create and then just turn it over.

What are you talking about having a central offensive player is BAD. Having an offense where many pkayers touch the ball is always BETER not matter how inept they me be or how bad the results..more ball sharing is just "better"