<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Team depth is a quality that comes in different forms and pays off in many ways.</p> The Toronto Raptors are swimming nicely in deep NBA waters, thanks to the luxury of having two top-tier point guards and the hard-earned good luck of finding an NBA starter from the professional basketball scrap heap.</p> The Raptors, 7-7, beat the Chicago Bulls 93-78 in front of a sellout crowd of 19,800 at the Air Canada Centre Sunday for a lot of reasons, but the main ones were point guard Jose Calderon, who has guided the Raptors to a 2-1 record in the absence of T.J. Ford (arm), and Jamario Moon, the out-of-nowhere rookie who has give the Raptors a dose of unexpected defence and athleticism.</p> All Calderon did against Chicago, 2-10, was count a career-best 14 assists against a single turnover and add 19 points on 8-for-15 shooting. This came 24 hours after the second-year Spanish guard tied his career best total with 13 assists without making a turnover in the Raptors' 111-108 nail-biting loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday.</p> <div class="nav" id="related"> <div id="photo"></div> <ul>[/list] </div> It's performances like these that have given Calderon the lead in the NBA's assists-to-turnover ratio with a rate of 5.67 to 1. Anything over 3 to 1 is considered excellent.</p> "I wasn't thinking of that," he said when asked about his statistical achievements. "I was trying to take care of the ball and make easy passes to my teammates."</div></p> The Globe & Mail</p>
