<div align="center"> -VS- <font color="Purple">Sacramento Kings</font> (19-9) @ <font color="red">The Toronto Raptors</font> (11-21) TIME & LOCATION Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON Wed, Jan 5, 2005 07:00 PM <font color="Purple">The Sacramento Kings Lineup</font> FRONT COURT: C: BRAD MILLER - PF: CHRIS WEBBER - SF: PEJA STOJAKOVIC BACK COURT: PG: MIKE BIBBY - SG: DOUG CHRISTIE KEY RESERVE: F: DARIUS SONGAILA (5.8 PPG & 3.8 RPG in 17 MPG) HEAD COACH: RICK ADELMAN (680 W - 416 L) 7th Season With SACRAMENTO <font color="red">KINGS INJURY REPORT:</font> G: Bobby Jackson (ligament tear in left wrist) -------------------------------------- <font color="red">The Toronto Raptors:</font> FRONT COURT: C: RAFAEL ARAUJO - PF: CHRIS BOSH - SF: ERIC WILLIAMS BACK COURT: PG: RAFER ALSTON - SG: MORRIS PETERSON KEY RESERVE: G/F: JALEN ROSE (14.9 PPG, 3 RPG, 30 MPG; Plays multiple postions off bench) HEAD COACH: SAM MITCHELL (11 W - 21 L) 1st Season with TORONTO <font color="red">THE RAPTORS INJURY REPORT:</font> G: Alonzo Mourning (Knee) G: Aaron Williams (Sprained Ankle; Questionable) -------------------------------------- LAST MEETING: November 9th, 2004 (In Sacramento) <font color="red"> The Raptors 20 25 21 26 - 92 Final Sacramento 27 25 35 21 - 108 </font> NOTABLE MENTIONS: SAC - Brad Miller: 21 Pts, 12 Rebs, 6 Asts SAC - Chris Webber: 21 Pts, 11 Rebs, 11 Asts TOR - Vince Carter: 12 Pts, 27 Minutes TEAM PERCENTAGES: SAC: FG 54.2% 3PT 14.3% FT 76.2% TOR: FG 36.1% 3PT 21.7% FT 63.0% REBOUNDS: SAC: 49, TOR: 44. <font color="red">ASSISTS: SAC: 31, TOR: 16.</font> TURNOVERS: SAC: 18, TOR: 10. BIGGEST LEAD: SAC: 28, TOR: NEVER LEAD. Attendance: 17,317 Time of Game: 2:04. Officials: #7 Bernie Fryer , #36 David Jones , #59 Gary Zielinski -------------------------------------- PLAYERS TO WATCH BRAD MILLER & CHRIS BOSH</div> Coming off his biggest night of the season, perhaps of his career, Second-Year Foward Chris Bosh looks to be Toronto's new primary option offensively. Following Monday Night's victory over Orlando, 105-94, Bosh had set matched his career high in points, 25, and also tied his season high in boards, with 12 rebounds including 5 offensive. Chris Bosh has seemingly become a bonafide starter in Toronto, earning himself quality minutes and putting in great efforts during his court time. Bosh should have no trouble getting himself going against Sacramento, and especially Chris Webber. Bosh is known as a very quick and agile Foward, and given Webber's history of knee problems which have apperantly slowed down his overall movement, Bosh may prove to be too much for Webber in isolation. Brad Miller heads into Wednesday Night's match up searching for a break out performance. Steady so far this season, Miller hasn't posted a 20 point, 10 rebound game since December 5th against The Celtics. However, if such a peformance lurks in the near future, Wednesday Night may be just the team Miller was waiting for. In their last meeting back in November, Miller posted an all out offensive barrage, getting it done on all cylinders with an impressive 21 point, 12 rebound, 6 assist outing. With a Rookie center likely to get the start for Toronto, Rafael Araujo, and Alonzo Mourning and Aaron Williams likely to miss Wednesday's tipoff, Toronto may infact be at the Mercy of Big Brad Miller! KjX3's PREDICTION - I highly doubt Toronto's offense can keep up with Sacramento's all out attack, however I do look for Chris Bosh to have a big night if Webber is forced to guard him in isolation. Hopefully Adelman will realize the quickness advantage and place another defender on Bosh in those situations. - Also, Last meeting both teams combined for just 12 fast break points, Sacramento has always been a very quick paced offense, and I wouldn't expect a lackluster full court performance such as that to repeat itself. - Expect BIG Night's from Sacramento's front court, Toronto simply doesn't have enough bigmen to defend a full 48 minutes with Aaron Williams and Alonzo Mourning likely to miss the game doto injuries. - Sacramento (110) defeats Toronto (99)
Great Preview James. The last game we played with the Raptors,it was a good game,and Toronto almost got the win.this time,i think we will get a clear cut win against the Raptors,seeing as i think our offense will have a decent outing against Toronto's defense.i do see our offense at times overpowering Toronto,and i do expect Miller,Peja,Bibby and Webber once again to have spectaluar games here. Kings 101 Raptors 89
looks like the kings will have a tough time getting a win being down 9 halfway through the forth .Theyre currently 20-9! With this probable loss theyll be 20-10 ! Get it right....
I knew Webber would have an extremely difficult time defending Chris Bosh given his agility at his size, the statistics seem to prove my theory true. The backcourt also defended very poorly in this game, when Morris Peterson and Jalen Rose combine to drop 39 points on you, there's simply a problem. Comes right back to the defense, it needs to be addressed yet again...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting King James X3:</div><div class="quote_post">I knew Webber would have an extremely difficult time defending Chris Bosh given his agility at his size, the statistics seem to prove my theory true. The backcourt also defended very poorly in this game, when Morris Peterson and Jalen Rose combine to drop 39 points on you, there's simply a problem. Comes right back to the defense, it needs to be addressed yet again...</div> no, the statistics show that Webber Stojakovic & Christie couldnt hit the broad side of a barn with a nuke last night. Id say that it was more of a "they just plain sucked" issue last night than anythinig else... you cant expect them to play good defense if they are having such an off night that they are having trouble making 25% of their shots.... the only starters that played well were Bibby and Miller.... had the kings even shot 40% we wouldnt be having this discussion.... it wasnt a defensive lapse... it was a mental lapse all around.
Well you guys shouldn't be embarassed, the Raptors have beat the Spurs, Wolves, Pistons and Jazz before AK went down at home. The Raptors are a good home team, but a lottery road team, and you guys were on a back to back, so I was expecting the Raps to win this one.
96-93 Raptors ...A Tough loss for us..To be honest,we should have beaten the Raptors,as in my opinon we are a better team than Toronto.(no offense Raptor fans).We didn't win the game,and what killed us was lack of Defense.Chris Bosh was simply great for Toronto,as he kept Webber in check all night.23 points,13 rebounds..he simply owned Webber One of the few Bright spots that the Kings had that night was Bibby's 32 point game.his best game of the season so far,but anyways congraduations go out to the Raptors for the win.
