<div align="center"> @ <font color="Navy"><font color="Navy"> Toronto Raptors @ Chicago Bulls TV: Toronto (Sportsnet Ontario), Chicago (WGN Superstation) Venue: United Centre Date: Saturday, April 9th. TipOff time: 8:40 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-Pape Sow</font></font> 6th Man: <font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Matt Bonner</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-9.0 Assists:R.Alston-6.5 FG%:M.Bonner-53.6% FT%:J.Rose-85.4% 3PT%:L.Murray-44.2% Blk:C.Bosh-1.4 Steals:R.Alston-1.5</font> <font color="Red"><font size="1">Injuries: Donyell Marshall (Questionable) Loren Woods- Back Spasm (IL)</font></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> The Bulls: <font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Chris Duhon-Kirk Hinrich-Eric Piatkowski-Othella Harrington-Antonio Davis</font></font> 6th Man: <font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Ben Gordon</font></font> Coach: <font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Scott Skiles</font></font> Team Leaders: <font face="Comic Sans MS">Scoring:E.Curry-16.1 Rebounds:T.Chandler-9.1 Assists:k.Hinrich-6.5 FG%:E.Curry-53.8% FT%:B.Gordon-85.5% 3PT%:E.Piatkowski-43.0% Blk:T.Chandler-1.7 Steals:K.Hinrich-1.6 </font> <font color="Red"><font size="1">Injuries: Deng - Knee (Out Rest Of The Season) Eddy Curry - Irregural Heartbeat (Doubtull)</font></font> <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> <font color="Red">Keys To The Game:</font> <font face="Comic Sans MS">- Interior Advantage:</font> With the absence of Eddy Curry, the Raptor killer, the Raps must take advantage of harrington and Davis upfront. Specially Chris, he has to be aggressive and smart, specificly when he's matched up against Tyson Chandler. <font face="Comic Sans MS">- The Curse:</font> The Raptors are winless against Chicago since the big trade last season. Everytime we play in teh Windy City, Jalen tries to do too much against his former team. He must settle down and just play his game instead of trying to show off. Same applies for Skip. <font face="Comic Sans MS">- Passion-Pride-Professionalism:</font> As Leo mentioned last night, at this point of the season, when you're coming out of two emberrasing games (Yes I consider an overtime win to the Hawks emberrassing), you must have pride as a person and just play hard and give full effort regardless of the oponent. <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> <font color="Red">Game Matchup:</font> vs Chris Bosh vs Tyson Chandler CB4 had a bad game last night by his standards. Although he recorded another double double and had 5 blocks, he lacked the touch on offence, and he was forgotten most of the game as far as the offence is concerned. He MUST demand the ball vocally, and go hard at the Bulls' frontcourt. Defencively, he has to keep Chandler off the offensive board. He can't play him tight, he should give him the contested shots and deny him the drive. Chris should definitly take advantage of this matchup, or whomever Skiles throw at him in Harrington or Davis. <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> <font color="Green">The X-Factor:</font> Jalen Rose Winless against his former team, you know JR is dying to win his first game against Chicago after the Dec. 5 2003 trade. If he plays his game and not try to do too much, he'll give the Raps a decent chance at stealing the win. With Deng out, he'll be matched up against either Hinrich or Piatkowski to start off, both are not great defenders, so The Rose should be able to take them. But it has to be within the offence. <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font> <font color="Red">Say What?! (Prediction)</font> At this point, with the season being over and the draft clock is ticking. On the other hand, the Bulls are looking for their first post-season appearance since His Airness left. The Bulls owned this series in the last couple oof years, so I'd assume the Raps to come out fired up for this game. I predict a closer game than most people think. <font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="7">.......</font></font></div>
^That girl looks at least 40 years old. LOL j/k Anyways, I think this game tonight will break the losing streak. I have a feeling. Raps win 105-100.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Article:</div><div class="quote_post"> The Bulls won their 11th game out of 12 last night versus the lowly Knicks, however it came at a cost. Their surging young center, Tyson Chandler was hit in the eye and suffered a severe scratch in the win. "I went to block Jerome's shot and he swung with his off arm and scratched my eye," Chandler said. "They said it was the cornea. I can't open my eye because the light burns. There's a fuzz, a blur. I'm glad we got the victory, but I didn't know what the score was. I couldn't see. I couldn't get my eye open." The Bulls are unsure of Chandler?s status, but can ill afford to lose Chandler with Eddy Curry still undergoing tests for a perceived irregular heartbeat. </div> Article
Raptors lose 110-97. That was so sad. Chris was crying. It was terrible, I couldn't even look at the TV screen! Mo rubbed his back supportingly and then that's when some tears started to leak out. I feel so bad for this guy. He really does hate to lose.
When Bosh came to the bench you could just tell the way he felt..he had no emotion in his face..it was blank. Then yea, the tears came. What Im worried about is, sure, now he likes it here, and thats great cause we definatly need him. But what if our team keeps losing..after Chris keeps trying so hard, but no result. Will he want to come back with us? Damn, hes too good for the raps..
Yea me too..all of the raps have to be feeling that way aswell, and just arent showing it too clearly..at least our records not like Atlanta's though. Bosh has just had a lot of winning through hs and college..big ajustment now.
Only good thing is that we see how Chris has such a huge passion to win. And that's what we need with this team.
Everything is a learning experience, and winning cannot come easily. Bosh will take this losing situation to strengthen his passion and give him drive to win in the future. I just appreciate his effort on a night to night basis, I only hope that Babcock manages to create a good roster around Bosh in 2-3 years from now.
Chris really does have a passion for the game and he hates to lose, which you gotta respect. Reminds me of another player that has a lot of passion for the game.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> CHICAGO (AP) - These Bulls hardly resemble Michael Jordan's teams of the 1990s, but they do share one trait with those championship squads - they're in the post-season. The Bulls, who started this season 0-9, secured their first playoff berth since the Jordan era with a 110-97 win Saturday over the Toronto Raptors, who were eliminated from playoff contention</div> Source
raptors need to get rid of rose and alston, they got skillz, but in chicago iv seen how much skill can get you, u neeed to surround bosh with people with the same instensity and need to win, mo pete is a good start and so is that red headed guy, michael redd would be a good start
