<div align="center"> Welcome to Raptor's Gameday on <span style="color:#FF0000">Christmas</span> <span style="color:#2E8B57">Weekend</span>!, I make these threads for discussion once in a while. Enjoy! P.S: Just a thought, does anyone think I could maybe be a team leader here now that CB4AllStar is a global mod? __________________________________________<span style="color:#000000">Welcome to <span style="color:#3333FF">BBW's</span> <span style="color:#FF0000">NBA</span> Raptors GameDay! <span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">@</span> <span style="color:#FF0000">Toronto Raptors (12-15)</span> @ <span style="color:#2E8B57">Seattle Supersonics (10-17)</span><span style="color:#333399">Arena:</span> KeyArena, Seattle, Washington<span style="color:#333399">Time:</span> 10:00 PM EST</span><u><span style="color:#FF0000">Toronto Raptors Starting Lineup</span></u> <span style="color:#FF0000">PG-</span> <span style="color:#000000">TJ Ford</span> <span style="color:#FF0000">SG-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Anthony Parker</span> <span style="color:#FF0000">SF-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Joey Graham</span> <span style="color:#FF0000">PF-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Jorge Garbajosa</span> <span style="color:#FF0000">C-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Rasho Nesterovic</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><span style="color:#FF0000">v</span><span style="color:#2E8B57">s</span>.</span><u><span style="color:#2E8B57">Seattle Supersonics Starting Lineup</span></u> <span style="color:#2E8B57">PG-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Luke Ridnour</span> <span style="color:#2E8B57">SG-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Earl Watson</span> <span style="color:#2E8B57">SF-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Ray Allen</span> <span style="color:#2E8B57">PF-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Chris Wilcox</span> <span style="color:#2E8B57">C-</span> <span style="color:#000000">Andreas Glyniadakis</span> <u><span style="color:#000000">Injury Report</span></u> (TOR) Pape Sow- Neck- Likely to miss entire season(TOR) Chris Bosh - Bruised Bone in Knee - Out Until Dec 29/30 vs. Chi/Mem(SEA) Rashard Lewis - Right Hand Tendon - Surjery Done On Friday(SEA) Danny Fortson - Knee - Out Out until at least late December (Questionable Tonight)(SEA) Robert Swift - Knee - Out for the season <u><span style="color:#000000">Matchups</span></u><u><span style="color:#006600">Coach goes Small With Watson</u> <span style="color:#000000">Today, Bob Hill moved Ray Allen to SF, and replaced the SF place with the small Earl Watson. Today, Anthony should focus on using his size, and forcing Watson to the bucket, Watson can play the perimeter but is not a post player. As for Waston, he should his quickness as an advantage to take Parker off the dribble.</span><u><span style="color:#006600">Joey Time</span></u> <span style="color:#000000">Moving down to SF, Ray Allen tonight is matched up with Joey Graham. Joey faces a quick shooter who is quick on his feet and will knock the 3 right in your face. </span><u><span style="color:#006600">Starting off the Bench</span></u> <span style="color:#000000">Mickael for the Sonics, is a powerful offensive threat down low, and can score some garbage points and get some rebounds of the bench. Fred Jones who is expected more of consistently needs to live up to his hype. He needs to play with the flow of the game, and take it down low, where he is so athletic. </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%"><span style="color:#3333FF">RF1's X-Factor</span></span></u><span style="color:#CC0000"><u>Toronto</u><u>Jorge Garbajosa</u></span><span style="color:#2E8B57"><u>Seattle</u><u>Chris Wilcox</u></span>These are two big men downlow who when step up, their teams win. Look for Wilcox to attack whatever players at are thrown at him by Mitchell tonight. Garbajosa who is trying to focusing on driving to the lane, looks to do just that tonight and exploit the injury depleted Sonics.</span><u><span style="color:#009900">RF1's 3 Keys to the Game</span></u><span style="color:#CC0000"><u>Toronto</u>1. Run, with the injuries on this roster, its easy to get people tired.2. Transition D, when in transition the Raptors really break down and fail to stop or contest shots.3. Good passes, the Raptors are the league leaders in least turnovers, but had like 16 on Friday. </span><span style="color:#2E8B57"><u>Seattle</u>1. Ball to Allen, Joey doesn't play well perimeter D, let Allen shoot..2. Box out, the Raptors win when they rebound properly.3. Take advantage of Bosh out, attack the frontcourt. </span>My thoughtsThe Raptors look to grab a fairly easy win tonight, as they look to push off the injury depleted Sonics. They also look to go 6-12 on the road as well. Dont forget the Raptors are to start a home game stand in January so get it done on the road.<u>Pre-Game Notes:</u> Sonics on 6 game losing streak, Raptors looking to keep spot on top of Atlantic. <u>Past 5 Game Outlook:</u> Fri. Dec. 15: (W 90-78) Sun. Dec. 17: (W 120-115) Tue. Dec. 19: (L 98-115)Wed. Dec. 20: (W 98-96) Fri. Dec. 22: (W 101-100)<u>Forward 5 Game Outlook:</u> Wed. Dec. 27: Fri. Dec. 29: Sat. Dec. 30: Wed. Jan. 3: Fri. Jan. 5: </div>
Yo RaptorsFan#1, The Raptors record is (12-15), not (11-15).You wrote 11-15 at the top of your post. Change it to 12-15.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wolverine30 @ Dec 23 2006, 08:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yo RaptorsFan#1, The Raptors record is (12-15), not (11-15).You wrote 11-15 at the top of your post. Change it to 12-15.</div> Neat Freak. BTw Cb4 could have edited that by himself
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wolverine30 @ Dec 23 2006, 08:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Who is Andreas Glyniadakis? Never heard of him. Why isint Petro or Swift starting at Center?</div> He came out of the D league, they activated him recently which is why I couldnt find a pic of him.
Hey CB4, I am going to be watching Bargnani tonight so he better not dissapoint. I will give him a fair chance before I judge him again. And just to let you know, I didnt really believe in half of the crap I was saying in our arguement. You just assumed something in one of my original posts so I decided just to go with it...
He better be good against the freaking Sonics defense. lol. BTW, Bargnani hit the game winning shot yesterday. First of his career.
Easy win for the raps. But imm still hoping. I thinks its funny that everyone thinks Wilcox is our X-factor. I think it is more like Watson- he can really contrrol the tempo of the game and score quickly when the mood is upon him if not he can be a major liability!
Wilcox is easily the X-Factor of the game. They are going to need him to play big agaisnt the Raps in order to come up with all the boards for the team. He is going to need to have a big game scoring wise and defensivley as well...
Ballerman, I assure you Bargnani is going to have a good night, first off, hes still high of that game winner yesterday, plus hell get lots of minutes, and he has been consistent somewhat of late Clangus...ray allen may pose somewhat as a threat
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ballerman2112 @ Dec 23 2006, 09:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wilcox is easily the X-Factor of the game. They are going to need him to play big agaisnt the Raps in order to come up with all the boards for the team. He is going to need to have a big game scoring wise and defensivley as well...</div>My Game threads rock :rock:
I hope to god that Anthony Parker con contain Ray Allen to a certain level, and also that Ray Allen gets cold tonight. If Ray isn't on, chalk up a win for us.
Well, I totally thought that Ray Allen was injured and Chris Bosh was healthy. That makes things a little bit more interesting. I havent watched either team play enough this season but I will tell you that I KNOW that Seattles defense is terrible, and I cant give a team the edge with that bad of a defense. I have seen Seattles starting center play against the Spurs and I thought that he was terrible. I honestly dont think the Sonics big men will be able to keep up with Toronto's even with Bosh out. I expect Bargnani to have a big night because of Bosh being out. Somebody is goint to have to be taking the shots downlow and it sure as hell wont be Rasho. I expect TJ to have a big night scoring and I think that Mo Pete should have a good night also.
