Official Game Thread: Raptors @ Magic

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<font color="Navy"><font color="Navy"> Toronto Raptors @ Orlando Magic
TV: Toronto (The Score), Orlando (Sun Network)
Venue: TD WaterHouse
Date: Wednesday, March 30th.
TipOff time: 7:10 PM est</font></font>


<font color="Red">- Starting LineUps</font>

The Raptors:


<font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Rafer Alston-Morris Peterson-Jalen Rose-Chris Bosh-Aaron Williams</font></font>

6th Man:


<font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Donyell Marshall</font></font>

Coach:


<font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Sam Mitchell</font></font>

Team Leaders:

<font face="Comic Sans MS">Scoring:J.Rose-17.8
Rebounds:C.Bosh-8.8
Assists:R.Alston-6.7
FG%:M.Bonner-54.4%
FT%:J.Rose-84.2%
3PT%:M.Bonner-44.6%
Blk:C.Bosh-1.3
Steals:R.Alston-1.6</font>


<font color="Red"><font size="1">Injuries:
Donyell Marshall (Questionable)
Loren Woods- Back Spasm (IL)</font></font>

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The Magic:


<font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Steve Francis-Deshawn Stevenson-Grant Hill-Dwight Howard-Kelvin Cato</font></font>


6th Man:


<font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Tony Battie</font></font>

Coach:


<font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Chris Jent</font></font>


Team Leaders:

<font face="Comic Sans MS">Scoring:S.Francis-21.4
Rebounds:D.Howard-10.1
Assists:S.Francis-7.0
FG%:K.Cato-52.9%
FT%:P.Garrity-86.7%
3PT%:H.Turkoglu-38%
Blk:D.Howard-1.6
Steals:G.Hill-1.4
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<font color="Red"><font size="1">Injuries:
H.Turkoglu (Out Rest Of The Season)
Doug Christie (Out Rest Of The Season)</font></font>



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<font color="Red">Keys To The Game:</font>


- Rebound Rebound Rebound We got killed against the Magic in the first game 61-32 on the glass, hopefully with Bosh's emergence we could do a better job on the glass.

- Nothing Easy: Don't give up easy lay ups and dunks. Steve, Grant and Dwight scored many easy baskets first wo games to put it out of reach.

- DeFranchise:Last game when the Magic came to Toronto, Skip and Milt have done a great job at holding Francis off the lane and making him take contested tough shots. Only a similar efforts from our backcourt.

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<font color="Red">Game Matchup:</font>

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Chris Bosh vs Dwight Howard

Along with Amare, those two present the best young power forwards in the league. Despite his freakish athletesism, Howard has not show a consistent offensive game, therefore Chris must put a body on him and prevent him from going to the offensive glass where he gets most of his points.
Offensively, he must go hard at him. Howard showed in the previous three games against the Raptors that he can't contain an agressive Chris Bosh, so he must look to take him off the fribble and put him into foul trouble.

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<font color="Green">The X-Factor:</font>


Morris Peterson

Ater going at with Wade last night, it'll be interesting to see how he comes out in this game having the assignment of guarding Grant Hill and Francis for parts of the game, so his defence on these two will be crucial for the coaching staff.



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<font color="Red">Say What?! (Prediction)</font>

I expect the Raptors to win on the second night of back-to-back after playing hard and losing to the mighty Miami Heat. Raps win, 117-109.



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Another loss in the books. Final score: Orl 108 - Tor 96.

Terrible, terrible job taking care of the ball with 22 turnovers.

We could have easily one this game if we play little bit of defence and cut down on these dumb turnovers.

Bosh with another double double outplaying Howard, but we played terribly on defence which cost us the game despite shooting 50+% from the field.


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*sighs*

 

Cheer up guys, this has actually been a pretty productive day for the Raps. With the loss, we take a step towards a better draft pick and since Orlando won and Philly lost, Orlando inches to just a game away from Philly in the standings (thereby helping our Philly pick to get better)......

 

It was an okay game for a while, but I don't know, we just didn't really have much out there. Bosh struggled a little commiting 6 turnovers, and Dwight Howard established his dominance against us again.

Why aren't we playing Pape Sow?

 

This game was pretty hard to watch. I had to flip back and forth between this game and the Mcdonalds high school game (which equally sucked). Dwight just dominates us inside, it doesn't seem like we know what to do when he gets down low other than to foul him.

On the brightside of things this does bring us closer to that elusive draft pick.

 

Yah but like og15 said...why didn't we play sow...

Anyway good loss, i would lose all of our games from now on

 

I know that losing all these games is better for the Raptors in the future but I can't help but wonder what it's doing to our current roster..Jalen, a guy who's usually all smiles, got pissed at the team and Chris doesn't look too happy. This team is just going down, down, down..*sigh*