<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Zach Randolph got his shot and Eddy Curry had his and neither was remotely a factor.David Lee didn't have a chance, Jared Jefferies was overmatched on every possession, Malik Rose is too slow and too small and while Renaldo Balkman had marginal success, by the time he tried to defend Chris Bosh last night, the game was over. With Bosh playing Man to the New York Knicks' Boys, the Raptors came away with a 99-90 victory in the funereal atmosphere of Madison Square Garden. Bosh scored 40 points and the sense was he could have easily had a dozen more had he been selfish or a better finisher on occasion as Toronto got up early and put away the Knicks before yet another disgruntled Gotham crowd. "We wanted to kind of put the pressure on them," Bosh said. "We know the crowd wasn't going to be that friendly (toward the Knicks) if we jumped on them quick and that's kind of what happened." And it happened because of Bosh. Neither of the lumbering Randolph nor Curry had a chance to stop him in the first quarter and when Knicks coach Isiah Thomas put Jefferies on him in the second, it was comical. Bosh had 23 of his points in the first half and, while the Knicks made a half-hearted effort to get back in the game in the fourth quarter, the damage had been done. "That's what coaches are going to do," Bosh said. "They're going to throw different guys at a guy if he's hot and try to give him different looks and try to confuse him." Not only wasn't Bosh confused, he was probably disappointed after the game. He missed three free throws and 16 field-goal attempts and he could easily have eclipsed his career high of 42 points and might have gone for 50 with a few breaks here and there.</div> The Toronto Star
<span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">Bosh boosts all-star bid <span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></span></span>So much for the beasts of Broadway. The Raptors' first look at the New York Knicks and their twin towers Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph this season was a one-sided Toronto victory, some might say a knockout although a late run spearheaded by the Knicks' under- appreciated bench probably kept it from that stature of a beating. Neither of the Knicks big men was around long enough to have much of an impact -- they combined for six points and three rebounds in 25 minutes -- as the Raptors built an early lead, taking advantage of their obvious edge in the speed department, and then held on for a 99-90 win. By the time Isiah Thomas identified the obvious disadvantage and took Curry and Randolph out six minutes in, the Raptors already were up 15-4 in a game in which their lead would not go below five. Credit Chris Bosh for a lot of that on the offence. He tormented Curry and every other big man, and some little men, that Thomas could throw at him in a 40-point, 11-rebound effort that can only help his all-star chances in a few week's time when the full team is announced. <span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"></div> The Toronto Sun </span></span>
