Comments on: Breaking news: Raptors are soft, don’t play defense

By: chris

chris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:23:55 +0000

reggie evans isn’t coming back any time soon, he is still in a walking cast 28 games into the season…like it or not, he was probably the craptors most important acquisition last summer, as they really needed his defence to offset the lack of d they knew they were getting by adding turkoglu and derozan. really scary when the raps have nesterovic, bargnani, turkoglu, bellinelli, and calderon on the floor…all white, all slow, no help on d, and they all want to shoot from outside on offence! antoine wright isn’t nearly as good on d as hoped, and without all 5 players on the floor committed to helping out and moving fast on defence, they get picked apart anytime their opposition makes more than 3 passes. their best 5 for d will be bosh, evans, johnson, jack, derozan, once evans is back, with turkoglu or bargnani (but not both at the same time) coming in to jack up some shots when bosh or derozan need a blow. maybe a .500 team while evans is healthy, once he settles in.

By: karizmatic

karizmatic — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:19:02 +0000

They might as well change the name of the Toronto Raptors to the Toronto International All-Stars, one thing I’ve noticed about international players is they seem not to really care at all about playing defense. They have high basketball IQ’s can shoot the lights out and play team ball, until it comes to defense. Many American players are guilty of the same thing, but can at least be induced to play defense for the sake of shutting down an opposing all-star or getting blocks up or steals up, not that it really helps defense a lot of these stats are inflated by bad gambles, but my point is where are the European versions of Bruce Bowen, Shane Battier, or Ben Wallace? This is relevant to the Raptors because they have a high number of international players playing big minutes and a bunch of other guys who aren’t known to play any semblance of defense. Simply put the only way you get better defense out of that roster is to get rid of some of the players. Of course Bosh and Jack could help if they started to really put emphasis on the defensive end. The team has no real defensive leader.

By: b

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:10:09 +0000

raptors should start rebuilding. trade bosh for some major talent, he’s leaving anyways at the end of the season, going to Miama…. i like hedu, but unless the get some defence at the 1, they should loose him too to make some cap room…

By: fLaVa

fLaVa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:34:32 +0000

sign danny fortson to lay some guys on the ground and with when evans comes back, things SHOULD get a little better

By: QQ

QQ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:25:30 +0000

To be real honest, I don’t wassup’s with Chris Bosh. Every tim I watch him play, he’s a beast, he can play with the best PG in the game. But his team plays like shit every year, so he’s also clearly not a leader that wins.

I guess kid can play like a franchise baller, that’s a given.

But about winning? I don’t think he knows that yet.

By: Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball

Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:00:45 +0000

@confusedraptorsfan, stupid sad comments like that are why every superstar your corny team has ever had wants to bounce.

By: Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball

Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:58:20 +0000

@kermit, amway owns the orlando magic so their alive and kickin lol and its called quixtar now or something

By: Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball

Bron42 aka Had Springs before Slamball — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:57:17 +0000

they need to quit with all these euro junk players.

By: K Dizzle

K Dizzle — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:33:37 +0000

They need Evans to suit up for real and they gotta find minutes for Pops. That dude cracks skulls

By: Kermit The Washington

Kermit The Washington — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:58:54 +0000

LOL @ TEX!!!!

What is this, 1987?? AMWAY?! Really?!?! Wow, I know this site gets spammed from time to time, most notably by the “talldatingsite.com” thing, but WOW who in the world is still messin’ with AMWAY?