<font size=""4"">Raps happy with D effort</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Bosh said the key was communicating. "We talked a lot," Bosh said. "I think that's the most we talked probably the whole year. When we have guys pointing and talking, that makes the (other team) hesitate and even if somebody is not there we talk and act like someone is. You would be surprised how much it makes teams stop for one split second and then we're back in a set defence." </div> <font size=""4"">Bald not so beautiful</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Some of coach Sam Mitchell's suggestions for team bonding exercises appear to be falling on deaf ears. At least the head-shaving part is. </div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">PARKER AIMS FOR SUNDAY Anthony Parker, out of the lineup for the past five games with a sprained right ankle, hopes to make his return Sunday against the Seattle SuperSonics. He said while he's not yet up to speed, he should be 100% in a few days. His main concern is not trying to push things too quickly and encounter a setback. </div> <font size=""4"">Pain all part of game</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Starters who are playing a lot of minutes, none of them are 100 per cent and you're not going to be 100 per cent," coach Sam Mitchell warned. "You just have to get as healthy as you can, you have to learn to play with these things." The Raptors have been hit by a variety of ills of late. Starting shooting guard Anthony Parker has missed five games with a sprained ankle but hopes to return Sunday against Seattle; power forward Chris Bosh was wearing a compression bandage on his calf Wednesday night as well as the usual sleeve on his knee, and Jorge Garbajosa is getting medical treatment on myriad issues.</div> <font size=""4"">Raptors relieved they kept Mo Pete</font> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Now that the Raptors are up again ? they lead the Atlantic Division with the fourth-best record in the East ? Peterson is thankful he's still with the team after hearing his name bandied about in trade rumors in the weeks and days before the trading deadline. "My thing was I've been in Toronto my whole career," Peterson says. "I love it here. I would have hated to leave. I took the good times and the bad times. Now for this team to turn around, I wanted to stay. That would have been a bad time to leave."</div> <div align="center"><font size=""5""><u>Sunshine Girl - 3/9/07</u></font> </div>
Good to see Parker is returning soon. Also I'm glad that Mo didn't get traded either, he's just one of those guys that should stay with the Raps ala Reggie Miller.
