<div align="center">- <font color=""RoyalBlue"">Teams: Raptors(11-23) Vs. Chicago(14-19) TV: Toronto (RSN), Chicago (FSN) Radio: Toronto (Fan 590), Chicago (WMVP AM) Date: Wednesday, January 9th 2006 Tipoff Time: 8:40 EST Venue: United Center</font> ------------------------------------------- <font face=""Comic Sans MS"">Team Comparison: Team/ Record/ Standings/ PF/ PA/ Road/Home/ Streak/ L10/ Toronto/ 11-23/ 4th AL/ 97.9/ 101.9/Road 7-10/Lost 1/ 7-3/[/ Chicago/ 14-19/ 5th CN/ 95.6/ 97.3/ Home 6-10/ Won 2/ 2-8/ </font> ------------------------------- Projected Starters: <font color=""Purple"">The Raptors: <font size=""1"">-Mike James-Morris Peterson-Joey Graham-Chris Bosh-Rafael Araujo-</font> 6th Man: <font size=""1"">-Jose Calderon-</font> Head Coach: <font size=""1"">-Sam Mitchell-</font></font> ----------------------------------- <font color=""red"">The Bulls: <font size=""1"">-Kirk Hinrich-Ben Gordon-Luol Deng-Mike Sweetney-Othella Harrington-</font> 6th Man: <font size=""1"">-Chris Duhon-</font> Head Coach: <font size=""1"">-Scott Skiles-</font> </font> -------------------------------- Team Leaders: Points: C. Bosh TOR 22.1/ B. Gordon CHI 14.1 Assists: J. Calderon TOR 5.9/ K. Hinrich CHI 6.2 Rebounds: C. Bosh TOR 9.4/ T. Chandler CHI 7.9 -------------------------------- <font color=""Red"">Keys To The Game:</font> Defence: The Raptors did not play good defence on Vince Carter when Mo-Pete was ejected for the game and that caused them to lose the Bulls are averaging 95 points a game keep them below that and the Raptors will have a chance to win. Shot Selection: The Raptors were doing a good job of shoting the ball and getting good shots in the winning streak and yesterday the Raptors will have to keep this up if they want to win. Turnovers: The Turnovers hurt the Raptors yesterday the Nets got 16 points off 11 turn overs the Bulls are a team that can run they Raptors have to keep from turning the ball over. ------------------------------------------ <font color=""Teal"">Game X-Factor:</font> When Graham can hit a few shots early he really gets going this is a game that Graham can break out in the with Chandler questionable Graham can go inside with out a major shot blocking threat. <font color=""Purple"">Prediction:</font> This game I see the Raptors losing after comming off a tough loss to the Nets in the final second. 88-83 </div>
damn, you predict the raps winning this time? cuz most of the time you predict them losing, and they win. but gj on the preview, it's appreciated cuz not a lot of people would have the patience to do it. O btw, raps win 99-90. that is one ug cheerlearder
i hate vince carter for going to the nets, i hate vince carter even more for beefin with mo pete and vince didnt get thrown out the game?????? come on what kinda bs is this???? and anyways the raptors lost today, and why in the world is araujo starting???????????????????? a center shooting 39% man this guys tooo good
Yea Bonner is only useful when he is creating a mismatch and hitting shots/spreading the floor. I think CV31 should have got more minutes anyone know why he wasn't getting any? He had that nice alley-oop dunk, but that was his only basket I saw.
Raps lose. Bosh was hitting his jumpers, Jalen played well off the bench, and our scoring wasnt really a problem(except for that 2nd Q), But we forgot to do one thing, play D. I think Mike tried to do abit too much today, he was forcing his game.
every raptor game i find myself saying over and over.... TAKE BONNER OFF AND PUT CV IN Another thing, is it just me or did Mitchell not sub anyone at all during most of 3rd and 4th quarter, also i thought joey was playing good and then got subbed off and never got a chance to play again
start bosh at center and start cv at pf, thats what sam mitchell shoud do, if he wont do that i dunno why hes not FIRED
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting rookie789:</div><div class="quote_post">start bosh at center and start cv at pf, thats what sam mitchell shoud do, if he wont do that i dunno why hes not FIRED</div> He is probably trying to get Hoffa some experience so he might improve. Everyone improves with time and experience, and Hoffa is with us for the next 3 years so we should try to keep improving him. I agree late in the game CV and Bosh is a better lineup.
The only reason why Charlie is coming off the bench is to provide spark to the team, if Charlie starts and he's stopped or struggles, who's going to provide that spark that Charlie usually brings from the bench? Araujo? Bonner?...
I think the main reason we lost the game was because we just looked flat out tired.... and the fact that Mitchell overworked that last group on the floor didn't help matters either, especially considering they just played the day before in a tough matchup. I can understand that Mitchell wanted to let those guys play cuz they're the ones who got us back in the game, but at some point you gotta let them rest... Other than the fatigue factor, I'd say that rebounding and points in the paint killed us tonight.... Our perimeter defense wasn't too bad cuz we forced a lot of tough jumpers, it's just that we couldn't rebound the damn ball.
