Great Month for the Raptors/Deception needs a BOSH sig

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Toronto Raptors have made a clean sweep of January.

The National Basketball Association announced its monthly award winners today and they were all-Canadian, as Raptors all-star Chris Bosh was named Eastern Conference player-of-the-month; No.1 pick Andrea Bargnani was the Eastern Conference rookie-of-the-month and head coach Sam Mitchell earned coach of the month honours in the conference.

Bosh averaged 25.4 points and 9.1 rebounds while shooting 54.7 per cent from the floor to become the first Raptor to earn player-of-the-month honours.</div> Grange

Deception on the Raptors chances this month (January), specifically noting the hating on Bosh:
<div class="quote_poster">deception Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">i disagree with the spirit of this post. first and foremost, if the nets do well on the road like last night's performance in chicago, they would put us in their rearview. furthermore, four of the remaining games are against playoff teams as well as a very good kings team, who the raptors have historically struggled against. lastly, do we trust chris "the scarecrow" bosh to lead us through the most critical month of his basketball life?</div>

 

Raptors have far passed my expectations for them this season

 

Deception has ragged on everyone on this team. He has hit Bosh, Parker, TJ....pretty much everyone....is he even a raptor fan?

 

isn't he banned?

 

just someone with strong opinions and crappy back up, didn't have much basketball IQ really, was wrong about pretty much anything he said

 

Yea, I see no point in bringing his posts up. I think everyone saw how inconsistent his opinions were.


Anyways, I thought this was hilarious:
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">head coach Sam Mitchell earned coach of the month honours in the conference.</div>

 

VC never won the player of the month? That's surprising.

This another step towards respectability.

 

Yeah Raptors also make history, only team to win all 3 in the same month too..

 

Lol, never thought I'd see Sam Mitchell win a COM.

 

<div class="quote_poster">authentiq Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">isn't he banned?</div>

HAHAHA, he is....what did he get banned for?

BTW....I think coach of the month is the dumbest award ever. You can justify player of the month with stats and such, but how do you justify coach of the month? Did he pat more players on the ass? If your players catch fire like bosh did, you can just ride his coattails to wins...its very random and arbitrary.

 

Just read this on raptors.com, and I was surprised. I never knew we were the first team to have a sweep in the East for awards. On raptors.com, the picture for the article is just retarded:

 

<div class="quote_poster">Epidemik Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Just read this on raptors.com, and I was surprised. I never knew we were the first team to have a sweep in the East for awards. On raptors.com, the picture for the article is just retarded:

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thats disturbing

and i think they meant first raptor to win it this season, or the first raptor on this roster because vince has gotten player of the month many times

 

lol, I really didn't think that was on Raptors.com. Its funny just because its not the type of picture usually on a nba.com site.

 

Wow, they actually have that picture on their front page. That's borderline embarrassing.

 

Worst. Pic. Ever.

Where is Deception? He hasn't shown up in a while. Is he actually banned ?

This has been a far greater year than i expected. I would have predicted 34-37 wins this season and no playoffs but it looks like we may do better than that. I was prefectly ok with finishing with a worse record too, we are rebuilding still. Colangelo can't do everything he wants over night.

 

HAhaha.. im glad to hear that Deception was banned... lol
Anyways, i said it earlier in the season that this team(raps) is talented and deep, but Deception bashed it. I've never seen a raptor fan that is so pessimistic.
And Finally, the raps are doing well, this dude cant even post nomore....sad

Here it is again guys, let me be the first to say, raps are not only gonna make the playoffs but they gonna get past the first round....AND YEA, I SAID IT.

 

God, we deserve to lose our right to have a website, because of that pic. That's just terrible.

I agree with norespect about the coaching award. Our recent success has been more the result of an easier schedule and our player getting healthy. In fact, I would argue that Mitchell actually lost us a couple of games (NJ, Indiana).


btw, deception was originally suspended, but was banned when he continued to pick on people in the off-topic thread.

EDIT: I'm skeptical about our chances in the playoffs (man, am I getting ahead of myself or what?). We still lack experience and in a 7 game series, a lot of it will come down to coaching adjustments from game to game.

 

The Raptors are really coming into their own, as I expected before the season began. I really wanted to see this bright and fresh team do something that would garnish them some attention. Now it seems people are beginning to notice aside from just the Raptors fans and myself. There is so much promise for this team, it makes me nuts.

<div class="quote_poster">Epidemik Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"></div>

This is what happens when you nail your cousin.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Swish Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Wow, they actually have that picture on their front page. That's borderline embarrassing.</div>

What is borderline embarassing is you typing nonsensical messages about Alvin Williams signing with the raptors (actually the Clippers) and than deleting yours and other peoples messages refering to your posts, because you were too ignorant to take 5 seconds to read the thread title or article blurb before you ignorantly posted irrelevant messages.

AS for the pic I think its hillarious I hope and assume the websites guys were just joking around. But its defiintly going to be my new wallpaper.

As for deception being banned I also didn't realise that was the case when i posted the thread and i feel like a chump for calling him out when he can't even reply. My lasts thoughts on Deception was the he is a bright individual who at times got carried away trying to say something provocative when there was no substance to back up what he was saying. The only reason i brought up his quote about bosh was because i feel our posters benefit from hindsight being 20/20 and at times we all say dumb things something like: Fire Sam Mitchell, sign Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Draft Chris Taft with #16 overall(something i preached hard prior to the 05 draft.) and these comments are conveniently forgotten when the next thread comes around and we all go back to sounding like experts.

For what its worth i hope deception comes back at some point or atleast creates a different account under a cheeky synonymous pseudo-name such as "Duplicity"

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Drunkballer:</div><div class="quote_post">For what its worth i hope deception comes back at some point or atleast creates a different account under a cheeky synonymous pseudo-name such as "Duplicity"</div>

^^ I was talking to Voodoo Child a few days ago when Skillz (gotskillz92) got banned, and I asked what would happen if the banned member just made a new account? He said that they have the IP addresses of all banned members and if they try to make another account legal shiz will happen. Not sure if what you said was sarcasm, but yeah that's what Voodoo said.