<div align="center"> vs Toronto Raptors (20-34) vs Dallas Mavericks (43-11) Local TV: Toronto (The Score), Dallas (FSNSW) Venue: The American Airline Center Date: Saturday, Feb. 25th, 2006 TipOff time: 1:10 PM Eastern</div> [DIV=50%] <font size="3">Projected Starters</font> <div align="center"> <font size="1">Mike James-Morris Peterson-Charlie Villanueva-Chris Bosh-Antonio Davis</font> <font size="3">Key Reserves</font> <font size="1">Pape Sow-Jose Calderon-Joey Graham-Pape Sow</font> <font size="3">Coach</font> <font size="1">Sam Mitchell</font></div> <font size="3">Key Injuries</font> Rafael Araujo (Shoulder Bruise) - Out [/DIV] <font size="3">Projected Starters</font> <div align="center"> <font size="1">Jason Terry-Josh Howard-Adrian Griffin-Dirk Nowitzki-Desagana Diop</font> <font size="3">Key Reserves</font> <font size="1">Jerry Stackhouse-Erick Dampier-Devin Harris-Keith Van Horn</font> <font size="3">Coach</font> <font size="1">Avery Johnson</font></div> <font size="3">Key Injuries</font> None. <font size=""3"">Let The Sir Speak:</font> "Hey first of all, I love Mark Cuban. He ain't never gonna know more about basketball than me. I ain't never gonna have as much money as him, I'll never know more about computers, but he'll live to be 1000, and he'll never know more than us two about basketball. If he knew that, he wouldn't have put that little 'soft cake' team together." <font size="3">Prediction</font> Unless god somehow interferes, I don't see us winning this game. Mavs win, 111-97. <div align="center"> </div>
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Fever:</div><div class="quote_post">Howard is out. That raises our chance of winning from 0.1% to 0.5%.</div> I like those odds.
Mike James becomes a totally different player down the stretch. Doesn't have any trust in his teammates. Damn, these type of losses are too frustrating.
Darrell Armstrong played James pretty well most of the 4th quarter and in OT. DA coming into the game was the turning point. Raptors just has way too many turnovers in the end..
WOW, how the **** did we lose this game? I couldnt see the 4th Q cause i had to go somewhere but how did inthe world did we blow a 24pt lead.
You know what's sad about this? We're probably one of the greatest choking teams right about now. Anytime we grab leads in the 20+ range, expect to lose in the 4th. AKA Kobe and Dirk.
That was horrible, how could we have lost that game? Man, we played like garbage. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Mike James becomes a totally different player down the stretch. Doesn't have any trust in his teammates. Damn, these type of losses are too frustrating.</div> I don't think that's it. The main problem is that we get too stagnant down the stretch. All we ever want to run is iso Bosh, and if the other team plays him well, and denies him the ball, it's up to the PG to make something happen. We need to get less predictable in the closing minutes of games.
I was listening to the game on my way to my basketball game this afternoon, and before the game started we were up 14 with about six minutes left. I started the game feeling pretty good, so you could imagine how I felt when I found out we lost. Mitchell needs to be fired, his substitution patterns are absolutely horrible and he is way overreliant on Bonner.
