<div align="center"> - <font color="Navy"><font color="Navy"> Chicago Bulls @ Toronto Raptors TV: Toronto (TSN), Chicago (CSN) Venue: Air Canada Centre Date: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005 TipOff time: 7:10 PM Eastern</font></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> <font color="Red">- Starting LineUps</font> <font color="Black">The Raptors: </font> <font size="1">Rafer Alston-Morris Peterson-Jalen Rose-Chris Bosh-Rafael Araujo</font> <font color="Black">6th Man:</font> <font size="1">Donyell Marshall</font> <font color="Black">Coach:</font> <font size="1">Sam Mitchell</font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="6">.......</font></font> <font color="Black">The Bulls:</font> <font size="1">Chris Duhon-Kirk Hinrich-Luol Deng-Othella Harington-Eddy Curry</font> <font color="Black">6th Man:</font> <font size="1">Ben Gordon</font> <font color="Black">Coach:</font> <font size="1">Scott Skiles</font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> <font color="Red">Keys To The Game:</font> - Interior Defence: In the past, Eddy Curry have abused whoever was guarding him when playing the Raps. Our bigs should play him physical, and prevent he and Chandler from crashing the offesnsive glass. - Run 'n Gun The Bulls are a top defensive team in the league giving up under 95 PPG, so we must run and get easy buckets, otherwise, we're gonna have tough time scoring on them. - Ball Movement: Let's face it, our team is a jump shooting one, and once we get hot, we're hard to stop, specially at home. Must have ball movement in the half court to get quality open shots. <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="6">.......</font></font> <font color="Red">Game Matchup:</font> vs Luol Deng vs Jalen Rose The Rose have had two of the best months of his career during February and March. He's been consitently amazing in crunch time and has been the Raps #1 option offensevly in may games. Rose will look to exploit Deng in this matchup using his experience and excelent post game. Defensively, he can't play him tight as Deng will blow by him. He just has to contain and cotests his shots. <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> </div>
with kirk not playing, i didnt think you guys would buckle when playing our defense, even though its good
Its obvious the reason for the loss..there was almost no energy. We did have some in some parts of the 4th, but too late. And like Sam said after the game, they need to make the shots..
^LOL Well I thought we were going to actually win this one, but I was wrong. Guess Jalen shouldn't make promises before a game ever again.
Well Jalen likes playing against the Bulls, but I wasn't expecting a victory. The Bulls are a much better team than us, and Eddy Curry is probably the Bull that loves playing the Raptors the most. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">the reason for the loss wasnt ur poor shooting it was the bulls defense which is always solid</div> I'd say Rafer taking 21 shots for some odd reason was a big factor, and it was more the Raptors lack of defense, than the Bulls amazing defense. The Bulls are a Top 3 defensive team, but the Raptors have been able to play the high scoring game against the Spurs, Pistons, and against the Bulls in the previous game where they lost 121 - 115. I think Bosh's poor game [he's been injured, so I think it's still affecting him] was a big factor in the poor offense because Rafer decided he had to take the shots Bosh would normally be taking.
It was weird to see Rafer being selfish with the ball yesterday. He's rarely like that. Isn't he like 8th or something in the NBA for assists?
Well he's a good passer, but his decision making IMO isn't really the best, also whenever he get's schooled on defense he wants to go one on one with his man, and it's not like he played good defense in the first place anyways. Last time against the Bulls he took 21 shots, though he was 9-21 that time at least.
