Not a bad first half. I'd like to see us try someone else on Lebron besides Moon though. Nothing wrong with AP or Delfino's defense really.</p> Man i've been watching the raptors for 3 years under Mitchell and it's been the same problem every time with closing out shooters ina zone defense. He's got to learn how to fix that, we're cheating way too far off and getting burned like we did in the 2nd quarter.</p>
Defense was definately an issue. We had no answers for Lebron or big-Z in the post and we kept cheating on the zone leaving the three point shooters open. We had no significant inside defensive presence which absolutely killed us. One of our bigs has to step up or we should be hitting the trade market. 40 something points in the paint? Only one word for that: Soft.</p> Very confused by the rotation. Moon is great, but why would you give him burn over more well rounded players like Delfino and Parker? Doesn't make any sense, his defense on Lebron was not that great. Beyond that, it's time the offense actually designed some plays to get our shooters open. It's great that Delfino, Parker, and Kapono can still score with a man all over them, but that shouldn't mean we settle for those type of shots.</p> Other than Kapono i was sort of disapointed with the effort some of ourSF,SG's gave today. They looked very floaty and didn't really involve themselves unless they were right in the centre of play. Bargnani pulled an invisable man performance in the second half, I had a tough time rembering he was even on the court. Get the kid involved in the offense a little more, we looked very one dimensional.</p> </p>
