Official Game Thread: Raptors vs. Warriors 12/17/06

Well Bargnani and Mo Pete played well, we had 6 scorers with double figures again tonight.

 

I hope it's not too bad. He could move all his limbs so i guess that's a positive in some small way. I think his back siezed up or something of that sort, he looked like he was in a lot of pain.

 

yeah he got knocked down by mickael pietrus, in the replay it didnt look like he took a hard hit but whatever it was, it really killed his back, cuz he was close to tears on that stretcher... it also looked like garbajosa was very sad, but look at the bright side, we won, mo and bargnani both had a terrific game (i think andrea got his first double-double - either that or he was one rebound shy of it)

 

God, please tell me that Mo Pete is back. He had a great game today, I hope he will keep it consistent.

 

Hahahahaha, I would've loved to have been at this game, Warriors fans and Raptors fans, the most sarcastic, pessimistic in the league, gotta love it.

On a more serious note, Bargnani is playing real well, I've been really impressed by his play as of late. I said at the start of the season he would be a bust, but there was always a part of me deep inside that wanted to see him suceed, and he's doing so. Good game for him with 18 Points, 10 Rebounds, 6 Blocks.

 

Wow, didn't even realized he had 6 blocks. Dude played great last night, and more importantly, he didn't play one-dimensional. He actually had a bit of a presence down low. I picked this up from Chuck Swirsky's blog:

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Raptors assistant general manager Maurizio Gherardini challenged Bargnani to get after it in his duel with Andris Biedrins . It was Biedrins who schooled Bargnani in their first meeting last month in Oakland. Leave it to Gherardini to push the right button with Andrea. </div>

Gotta love that Bargnani picks up the intensity when challenged like that. And also that Gherardini is taking a personal hand in his development.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">
Gotta love that Bargnani picks up the intensity when challenged like that. And also that Gherardini is taking a personal hand in his development.</div>

Definately, after Bedrins was all over Bargnani last time it's nice to see a solid rebound.

-I would almost argue that Jones being out has helped us because guys can get into more of a grove on the floor. We have wwaaay too many people on this team who play the 2-3 spots. With Mopete and Graham getting more consistent minutes they seem to be playing better. We still have a decent amount of players in the rotation it's just now we have to divide up the minutes amongst less people.
-Completely lost in this last game is how well our bigs played. Bargnani with 6 blocks (amazing) and Rasho providing the presence at the C spot we've always needed.
-I think someone else already mentioned this but the ball movement is much better without Bosh on the floor. Hopefully when he comes back we can find a way to get him into the offense but keep the ball movement going for everyone else. I really feel Bosh takes a set of shots that are effective but at the same time he takes some that are terrible. To me Bosh should be like Duncan on the Spurs, just give him the ball when you need a go to basket and give him enough touches to be effective, but don't force the ball down his throat at the expense of our offense. I find when bosh has his best games he is much like Duncan because you don't really notice his impact immediately until you look at the stat sheet at the end of the game you can see he has 20 -10.

 

^^Duncan sometimes can put up 20 and 10 so silently.

If Mo Pete is back to his old self (best 3 pt shooter on the team) then that will definitely help us. His contributions are just all around good to have.

 

Duncan could put 40 and 20 and nobody would know..