This will be real ahrd for us. I expect the Pistons to really shut us down with the zone they played against the Lakers. I think the best bet for the raptors is too shoot that mid ranged jumper today, its their only weakness it seems.
Some people thought they couldn't take the Lakers, but they won last night. The Lakers have a pretty good record and are one of the best teams. Orlando beat the Spurs yesterday, and the Raptors beat Orlando. This is a winnable game, and if Raptors get some shots going in the beginning, then this game is theres.
We are on fir eright now, but the Pistons are an even better team right now. This will be a very good test for us. If we can beat the Pistons, I think it shows that we are now among the East's elite.
I don't think we have a chance to win this game. The Pistons are a tough team to beat. Unless we play good defense and make them play our type of game we can win. The type of style that we have been playing in the past 5 wins. Hopefully we can come out to make the game close though. If Parker plays good D on Rip and Garbo can shut down Prince and if Rasheed struggles we might actually win the game. Going to be an exciting game, but we don't have the home advantage anymore pumping us up.
I think Parker will shine in this game. You saw how he gaurded Bryant yesterday, and he even scored on him easily. He can take Hamilton.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RaptorFan#1 @ Feb 10 2007, 11:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This will be real ahrd for us. I expect the Pistons to really shut us down with the zone they played against the Lakers. I think the best bet for the raptors is too shoot that mid ranged jumper today, its their only weakness it seems.</div>The Raptors can really shoot the ball... I dnt think they will be playing as much zone as you think. With our ball movement and guys like Andrea, Mo, and Parker able to hit the outside shot at anytime it could really throw the Pistons off what they would like to do. I think it will be a good game but tough.
Well today they are AT Detroit. The Raps are amazing at home, but can still manage to win big games on the road. I think this will be a close game until the end. Then it'll be up to Peterson for outside shots, Bosh to lead, and Calderon/ Ford to make good passes to teammates.
Dam, we lost. It was a tight game through out and they shut down another superstar, Chris Bosh. Rahseed got heated up and we couldn't really stop him. The OFFICIATING CREW SUCKS. There were so many questionable calls.
Fucken sh*t the refs were garbage! They were making bad calls for both teams. But they made the bad calls for Raptors at the end which cost them the game. F*ck. We had that game. Well I'm gonna be positive now. Well our record is still good, 27-24. 3 games over .500 and still first in the division, and 4th in the East. The next three games: Bulls, Nets and cavaliers. We can take those games then come to the all star game fresh.How the hell is Bosh afraid of Wallace? You were watching them on t.v. You can't say anything like that..
lol it was an inside joke, anyways you guys are over reacting over a loss, it WAS the pistons after all, the best team in the east..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nam @ Feb 10 2007, 10:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Bosh is scared of Wallace.</div> :happy0144:
Yeah well you gotta admit we had that game. We just screwed up at the end. I really hate the damn Refs. Not because the Raps lost, alot of teams get F*cked because of the Refs and there messed up calls.
I only caught the fourth quarter and in the last minutes it was really exciting, like Chuck and Leo said it felt like a playoff game. Anyways the players were all passonite which was great to see...I was really hoping Sheed would pick up a second technical because he was going all out at the ref after the first technical. The officials stole the show though in the end with horrible calls on both sides of the court.
Man all Raptor games are exciting. Did you guys see that crazy ass dunk by Joey Graham? Man that was awesome. I hope somebody posts it up on YouTube.
I'm not surprised by the loss. Detroit's a tough team for Toronto because they're so good defensively and have so many weapons on offense. Seems like every night they could have somebody go off and tonight that was Sheed. Bosh was off his game probably because of fatigue, but also because he had to guard Wallace most of the night. I'm not upset by the loss. They played hard, but it was on the road against a better team. At least it's not a blowout. The Joey Graham dunk tonight was beautiful. He's a very good in game dunker. He takes it up hard all the time. I like watching him a lot.
If Bosh was on today, we would have won for sure....Chris Bosh struggled the whole game. You've got to give Sheed some credit. He played amazing defense on him. Whenever he tried to drive, Sheed would poke the ball away. And alot of times Bosh didn't even have any room to drive. Bosh's shots were closely contested. He just got shut down. Oh well...I didn't think Jose really played all that great. He missed a couple of jumpers, a lay up. He is the reason that we fell behind in the 4th. He couldn't get our offense going. TJ Ford was the Raptors POTG in my opinion. Man, in the 2nd and in the 3rd, he just hit every jumper he took. He was ON FIRE from mid range. Man oh man. It was unbelievable. He also did a great job of setting up Mo and other shooters tonight. And I know he got like 18 and 10 or something...I thought Mo Pete took too many 3's in transition. He made a couple, but it upset the offense from all the times he took 3's as soon as he got up the court...Bargnani on the other hand started to make 3's in the 4th. He even made on ridiculous 3 to put us back into it. But then Billups iced it by hitting a shot on the other end...Bargnani's running drives weren't really going for him. He had a mediocre night.Joey Graham only played 7 minutes yesterday, but man; did anyone see his thundering dunk? That was crazy. Anyone have a .gif of that or does anyone know how to get one? I'd love to wear that in my avatar.
