Sorry about the lack of details, but I'm kind of on the run right now. I wanted to make sure there's a thread for tonights game, though this will be very basic.</p> <div align="center"> When: Saturday December 1st, 2007 @ 7:00 PM Where: Verizon Center, Washington DC TV/Radio: TSN, Fan 590</p> Antonio Daniels, Deshawn Stevenson, Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, and Brendan Haywood are starting for the<font color="#003366"> <font size="4">Wizards</font></font></p> Jose Calderon, Anthony Parker, Jamario Moon, Andrea Bargnani, and Rasho Nesterovic are starting for the <font size="4" color="#ff0000">Raptors</font></p> <div align="justify"> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Chris Bosh helped the Toronto Raptors top the Washington Wizards and their up-tempo offense in 2006-07, but he may not be available for this season's first meeting. With the Raptors playing tough defense, though, the All-Star forward may not be needed.</p> The Raptors, whose series with the Wizards in 2006-07 was highlighted by high scoring, look to win their fourth straight game as the teams meet Saturday night.</p> Bosh, who is contributing team highs of 18.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, averaged 30.0 points against Washington (7-9) last season, helping Toronto (9-7) win three of four games as both teams averaged 116.8 points.</p> The forward missed the Raptors' 91-82 victory over Cleveland on Friday night due to a strained groin, and his status for Saturday's game is uncertain. Toronto did get point guard T.J. Ford back after the point guard missed four games with a left arm injury, and he had two points and six assists in 16 minutes as a reserve. "We told him to try to get everybody going and just see how he feels," Raptors coach Sam Mitchell said. "You could tell he was rusty. He's only had one practice since he's been out."</p> Normally, Bosh's absence would make it difficult for Toronto to keep pace with Washington's offense. The Wizards had the NBA's fourth-ranked offense last season at 104.3 points per game, and currently averaging 101.3 points, but they're without injured guard Gilbert Arenas and teams are beginning to take advantage.</p> Washington has lost its last two games, averaging just 89.0 points. Toronto, meanwhile, has limited opponents to 83.7 points per contest during a three-game winning streak, and is yielding just 94.4 overall.</p> Friday's win marked the fifth time the Raptors held an opponent under 90 points, and they also improved to 4-0 when keeping an opponent under 40 percent from the field -- a feat accomplished in each victory during the winning streak.</p> Andrea Bargnani and Carlos Delfino set career highs with 26 and 24 points, respectively. Bargnani -- the top overall pick in the 2006 draft -- started in Bosh's place and went 9 of 19 from the field.</div></p> <p align="center"><font size="4"><font size="4"><u>Source</u>:</font> <font size="3">Yahoo!Sports</font></font></p> </div> </div>
Of course, this is always a given....</p> <div align="center"><font size="4"><u>Something to look at while you wait for the game.... </u></font></div>
Tough lose today for the Raptors, I really thought we could have taken advantage of the Wizards who wont have Arenas for a couple more months. The only thing I can put the blame on is our defense, we didnt play so great when it came to switching and just contesting shots and I believe that was the main reason we lose. On the offensive side I thought we played great, got alot of open looks throughout the game and pretty much did what we wanted, the only problem was Bargnani's shooting as I really thought coming off a career game he would come into this one with a ton of confidence which it kindof looked like in the early going of the game but then he could not buy a bucket today. Anyways we have a tough month ahead of us with 11 Western Confernce opponents if I remember correctly and most of them on the road.</p>
I'm going to call this a game we should of won simply because it was handed to us. While the Wizards were playing pretty well, we still should of took this game. I've never seen so many open 3 looks for Delfino, and he missed them. Parker had a few tough misses as well, and we can't have that. I won't take anything away from Moon, because he played so well. Calderon with another solid night.</p> We really need Bosh back, we could of just blew the Wiz out if we had a go to guy like Bosh, but it was still a tough lose.</p>
