The Case to cheer Chris Bosh

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

I used to think I'd cheer his intro and then Boo during the game like I would against any visitor. But now, I just want to see him be worse off after leaving. I wanted him gone, but I don't like the idea of him "getting one" on Raptor fans. He put his own narcassistic needs first when many a young Raptor fan were struggling with the Free Agency, and he plea's to his fans to shower him with adulation, because he wanted to have some fun. I was having and anniversary dinner with my wife when he made that tweet. I feel nothing good ever really came to Carter or McGrady or Damon since they left. Now Bosh has hitched his wagon to the stars, but as good of players as LeBron and Wade are, maybe they have other douche qualities that will eventually come to the surface and ruin things. Maybe they lose this year in the first round and Chris flakes in the playoffs again (that'd be sweet). Then with lockout year they're window gets shorter. Who knows what can happen, but I do not want to see Bosh win a ring Heat with the heat. I want to see him give up what he had in Toronto only to be dumped by the Heat and live to regret it. That's just my point of view. It's just how I feel.

He didn't work with Raptors as he promised to do, he committed to the Heat first, he was no honest therefore in his intentions and didn't hold up his end of the deal in the final days. I think it was too important to cool with Wade and LeBron. Which is why you read Bosh now say "I guess there's never a good way to separate" That's a cop out. There was a good way, you acted like you were going to go about it that way, and then you left management out to dry from the end of the season till you went on TV with Wade and committed to the HEAT.

[theSkinny]

Kill him with silence.. it would throw him off his game.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

Kill him with silence.. it would throw him off his game.

It would be great, but hard to get everyone to buy in and without that, it wouldn't have the same effect.

[garbagnani]

fail.

Bosh doesn't deserved to be cheered.

[SDM]

He spit in our faces when he left. He shouldn't get cheered for that.

This thread has pinpointed people who are into being degraded and actually want to *cheer* about it. I'm marking down names and if I ever come across any of you in prison, make sure you don't drop the soap.

[garbagnani]

I think we should be booing players currently on the team who actually deserve it, not Bosh who did not only what was in his best interests, but the team's long-term. I'd love to hear the Raptors' faithful boo Bargnani every time he gives up an offensive rebound or gives up a score in the post or is lazy in transition. I'd love to hear Raptors fans boo any wing player who gets beat to an offensive rebound in rotation, or boo Calderon for allowing a blow-by in the middle of the floor. These are the people who deserve to be booed, but I guess that takes more thought than just booing a guy because at one point he used to play here and did what he was within his rights to do.

i dont agree with booing your own players. I think anyone that chose to leave our team, disrespected his toronto fans during his exit deserves to be booed.

I was a huge VC fan, he turned his back on team/city/fans hence got his a$$ booed. Bosh deserves the same thing.

[BorisDK1]

He spit in our faces when he left. He shouldn't get cheered for that.

This thread has pinpointed people who are into being degraded and actually want to *cheer* about it. I'm marking down names and if I ever come across any of you in prison, make sure you don't drop the soap.

Bargnani spits in your face every night he puts up the most inefficient offense you've ever seen with no defense or rebounding or effort to go with it: do you boo him? He's done more harm to this franchise than Bosh ever did by leaving (which, again, was within his rights to do).

[JN]

Tonight is a great opportunity to boo the source of the problem BC/Bargnani. It would be the perfect opportunity to show the displeasure with the current regime and how things have turned out by booing Bargnani every time he touched the ball in this one game only.

[ZKS_STAL]

whether he deserves it or not will be debated for years - fact of the matter is, he's gonna get booed because that's what happened to the last guy.

[J-Roc]

We don't boo our own players. In fact we put them high up on a pedestal. It's what makes us the best fans.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

He spit in our faces when he left. He shouldn't get cheered for that.

This thread has pinpointed people who are into being degraded and actually want to *cheer* about it. I'm marking down names and if I ever come across any of you in prison, make sure you don't drop the soap.

Some people, when times get tough, want to distance themselves from the team, hide their shame of being associated with it. So if I'm there and booing our team until it's good again because I don't want to go through the struggles with them. I want the GM to rebuild though the draft and not quick fix a light Roster, but I want to kill the gm for our record and failure this year when his contracts up and crap on our players for taking too many shots or having to play a role they may not be suited for becasue they're trying to do the best with what they have. Makes people feel smarter, like they're above it all. Maybe it was hanging on to CB for too long that really screwed us.

[BorisDK1]

i dont agree with booing your own players. I think anyone that chose to leave our team, disrespected his toronto fans during his exit deserves to be booed.

I was a huge VC fan, he turned his back on team/city/fans hence got his a$$ booed. Bosh deserves the same thing.

Get real: Bosh played hard while he was here, and left when he was legally entitled to do so and anybody looking reasonably at the situation at the end of last year had to have said to themselves, "okay, this ship has gone as far as it's going to go and it's time for everybody to move on".

I think our own players should be booed. They had the worst defense in the league last year, and 2nd worst this year. There's little heart, effort or integrity on this team apart from a couple of players and that is disgraceful. Just because they put on a Raptors' uniform doesn't mean they're faithful to this city. Calderon sure as hell hasn't been faithful to this city with the way he plays, has he?

Being faithful to this city consists of a lot more than merely wearing a Raptors' jersey.

[theonlyeastcoastrapsfan]

i dont agree with booing your own players. I think anyone that chose to leave our team, disrespected his toronto fans during his exit deserves to be booed.

I was a huge VC fan, he turned his back on team/city/fans hence got his a$$ booed. Bosh deserves the same thing.

Get real: Bosh played hard while he was here, and left when he was legally entitled to do so and anybody looking reasonably at the situation at the end of last year had to have said to themselves, "okay, this ship has gone as far as it's going to go and it's time for everybody to move on".

I think our own players should be booed. They had the worst defense in the league last year, and 2nd worst this year. There's little heart, effort or integrity on this team apart from a couple of players and that is disgraceful. Just because they put on a Raptors' uniform doesn't mean they're faithful to this city. Calderon sure as hell hasn't been faithful to this city with the way he plays, has he?

Being faithful to this city consists of a lot more than merely wearing a Raptors' jersey.

I think José tries, his best. I think all our guys do.

[J-Roc]

he was legally entitled to do so

WTH does this have to do with anything?!?! We might as well cheer for LeBron, too because he's "legally" playing for Miami.

Bosh plays for another team. We boo him to show him he's no longer supported here. We'll take him and VC back after they retire, but for now, GTFO Bosh!

[SDM]

Our whole organization needs to be booed for poor play and misleading the public (though this is mostly on BC).

Bosh needs to be booed for being a sawed-off little twerp incapable of displaying a drop of class. Even if you believe that he made a last minute decision (he didn't), he tried extremely hard to make sure the door hit his skinny butt on the way out. Explain to me why we should be classy back. We packed the ACC nightly to watch him play, we wore our hearts on our sleeve for Chris Bosh... And what did we get in return? Not a touch of the class we exhibited towards him. I shouldn't waste my good vibrations on a player who, when confronted, only gives stock answers about how much he loves the city and the fans, and then the next minute, runs around with a smirk on his face being a sawed-off little twerp and doing NOTHING to boost the reputation of the city he left high and dry.

[BorisDK1]

I think José tries, his best. I think all our guys do.

I'll disagree with you there. There's no way you turn out the defensive performance these guys do with hard effort. Ask yourself if these guys are trying their best next time there's a loose ball rolling across the floor and the opponents come up with it, or when a 7'0" Italian stiff is standing perfectly upright "defending" the post and gets pushed aside like a revolving door for a layup.

[BorisDK1]

WTH does this have to do with anything?!?! We might as well cheer for LeBron, too because he's "legally" playing for Miami.

Bosh plays for another team. We boo him to show him he's no longer supported here. We'll take him and VC back after they retire, but for now, GTFO Bosh!

It means you have to be reasonable as a fan. Toronto gave Bosh absolutely zero reason to stay. It was time for him to move on, and rational thinking should tell us "hmmmm, we're having no success with him so maybe we should try something else..."

[Strategist1]

he was legally entitled to do so

WTH does this have to do with anything?!?! We might as well cheer for LeBron, too because he's "legally" playing for Miami.

Bosh plays for another team. We boo him to show him he's no longer supported here. We'll take him and VC back after they retire, but for now, GTFO Bosh!

Lebron was different in that he was already playing for a championship contendor. And then he added the drama on national TV.

Bosh played hard here for 7 years. He was entering his prime. His decision was to be the biggest in his career . His next 4 or 5 years playing in his next contract would be in his prime of his career. It is fair that he'd like to be in a situation where he has the best shot of winning the title. After 7 years here, this team regressed with no clear future.

He took less money to play on a contendor. Now people hate him for that?

[SDM]

Look, Chris Bosh's contract was up and he could really do whatever he wants. If he left in the off-season after making a decision in the off-season, there would be no problems. We were treadmilling and clearly going nowhere with him, and he obviously wanted a little more exposure. All evidence points to the fact that he did not do this. He successfully (and illegally) negotiated his way to a new team while still under contract as a Raptor. That's the spit. Cheering for this guy is rubbing it in and saying "hey man, can I have another?".

[jumpman]

No.