supersub15 wrote:If you're saying that we lost the game last night because of Calderon, then you really are biased. There are no 2 ways about it.
Who the **** said that? Paranoid much? I think there's a lot of truth to the original state also. TJ would have been absolutely murdered on these boards for a loss like this and people would have been screaming that Jose would have been a miracle worker as a starter.
If there's one positive result from TJ's injury it's that we can now start discussing the real problems with the team rather than trying to foist off all the blame on the team's second best player. Sadly, I'd rather have TJ healthy regardless and even now people would rather blame Mitchell than look at the problems. This wasn't really the thread for that kind of discussion, but honestly, just a harmless, truthful remark, otherwise unrelated to the discussion isn't a big problem in a decent thread so long as nobody decides to misinterpret it and blow it out of proportion.
As for the rebounding, the Cavs are one of the select few teams in the NBA who actually have the personnel to completely destroy the Raptors on the glass. They double and triple team Bosh on the glass on both ends of the floor to the extent that you can't tell if Chris is going for an offensive or a defensive rebound. After Bosh, the Raptors are incredibly short on rebounders. Humphries and Delfino are excellent but didn't play much for other reasons and Moon is solid. After that the team is atrocious. Parker is smart enough as a player to realize that the boards were there to be had while Bosh did the dirty work but AP doesn't have the endurance to play 40 minutes and he visibly wore down in the second half. Kapono, Rasho, Dixon and Jose are all poor rebounders at best and Bargnani might be the worst rebounder in the NBA the relative position on the floor that he has, or should have.
The Raptors rely incredibly heavily on their forwards for rebounds. Their centers don't do a lot- Rasho and Bargnani- because they're poor and atrocious respectively. Their guards Jose, TJ, Parker and Dixon don't do a whole lot, in part by design but moreso because they aren't very good rebounders, Delfino is the only player who isn't explicitly a forward who actually grabs rebounds on the team and even he plays a substantial amount at SF. This puts a ridiculous burden on Bosh, Moon and Humphries to grab rebounds because if they don't match the opposing team on their own then the Raptors are doomed to be destroyed on the glass.
