Vs. Memphis

I was able to attend this game on November 28. The Raptors won easily, but at the cost of losing Bosh to a groin pull. I brought my camera, but didn't get any clear action shots. Here are a few of the ACC, or components of it.

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Glenn

Oh, here are a couple more pictures. There posted on flickr.

centre court

4Korners

Monday November 26, 2007

Raptors are 7-7

Loss to the Cavs 111-108 - Bosh had a monster game with 41, but LeBron has another triple double.
Win over the Bulls 93-78


Coming up for the raptors

- Wednesday at home Memphis (PG tandem - Kyle Lowry & Mike Conley Jr.)
currently 4-9 have a back to back with NJ on Tuesday before coming to TO
- Friday at home Cleveland
currently 8-6 – couple of tough games this week against Celtics & Pistons
- Saturday in Washington
currently 6-7 – crazy week traveling to Dallas, SA, and Phoenix

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November 22, 2007

Raptors are 6-6

Loss to the Jazz - 88-92
Win over the Pacers - 110-101
Loss to Warriors - 100-106
Loss to Mavs - 99-105
Win over Grizz - 95-89

Email us about the best young point guard tandem in the NBA. We'll forward the good responses to Bill Simmons. We're at talking.ball@gmail.com

What will happen to the Wizards, with Gilbert out for 3 months? Jamison & Butler can't continue to go off for every game.

More Bulls talk. Why are they so bad?

Chris Paul is sick!

Upcoming Games
Cleveland – Saturday
Chicago - Sunday

Oh, no Steve in Toronto tonight. He had a prior engagement.

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November 12, 2007

Raptors are 4-3

Loss against Milwaukee - 112-85
Desmond Mason has a crazy game 10 for 10 and 21 points and team shoots 60%

Loss against Orlando – 105-96 loss
Raptors shoot 38%
Turkoglu and Lewis 24 points each, Magic out rebound the Raptors

Win over 76ers – 105-103
bosh with 24 points
Iguodala with 26 points and Louis Williams with 21?

Win over Bulls 101-71
36 assists for Raptors
only Bulls starter in double figures is Gordon with 11 – Nocioni comes off the bench for 20

Jamario Moon, stepping up big time.


Warriers, Timberwolves and SuperSonics still winless – 0-5, 0-5, 0-7, respectively

How good is the Southwest – Dallas is 4-2 and 4th in their division.

Bulls 1-5 record – heading out west for 4 games against the Suns, the Clippers, the Lakers and the Nuggets!


Upcoming Games
Utah – Wednesday
Indiana – Friday
Warriors - Sunday



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Friday November 9, 2007

A must win game to night in Philadelphia, if the Raptors want to right this ship.

The season is still very fresh and there is a lot of basketball to be played, but tonight’s game is against a division rival that the Raptors have already beaten. The Raptors have gone on a small losing streak and this is a great opportunity to put an end to it.

The 76ers have one main go to guy in Andre Iguodala (who dropped 23 on the Raptors opening night), so limited his touches will be key for Parker and Kapono. The Raptors have to ensure that no one else has a good game, for example Kyle Korver (he was hot on opening night with 20 points on 7-12 shooting).

Rebounding is another area of concern from the last game against the 76ers. Reggie Evans grabbed 15 boards and keeping him off the glass will fall on Bosh and Bargnani. Rebounding is an area that was missing in the last game, against the Magic, where Turkoglu and Bogans had stellar nights of 15 and 11, respectively.

Rounding out this week’s hectic schedule of 4 games in 5 nights is the first meeting this season against the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls snapped their 4 game losing streak and beat Detroit. The Bulls are projected to be one of the strongest Eastern Conference teams this season, so this game will not be an easy one for Toronto. Not to dwell on rebounding, but that was a key to the Bulls win over the Pistons, where the Bulls had 15 offensive rebounds. Stopping this team on the glass may prove difficult, as 3 of their starters are 6-9 and they have taller players on the bench (Joe Smith 6-10 and Joakim Noah 6-11 – who had 5 of the offensive rebounds).

On offense, the Raptors need to get back to their game. They need ball movement and players to hit the open shot. This is a team built around 2 quick point guards, and their ability to break-down the defender and get to the hoop and when that is stopped, kick the ball back out. Rotate the ball to an open man and bury the jumper. Chris Bosh and Andrea Bargnani need to aggressively attack the basket and be aware of the double teams. All standard clichés, but true.

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November 5, 2007

Week 1

Raptors are 2-1

Opening Night against 76ers - 106-97 win
bargnani with 20 - bosh with 16 - ford with 12 assists

Friday against the Nets - 106 - 69 win
bargnani with 21 - bosh with 15 - key was Calderon and Dixon play in the second quarter
Jefferson had 27, but no one else in double

Sunday overtime lost to Celtics - 98 - 95
ford with 32 points - bosh with 19 points
KG 10 points in overtime - Ray Allan's 3 to win it with 2.something seconds left - he finished with 33 points

ESPN's power ranks now have them at 7 from 14 last week.


Lakers jumped up in the ranks - after a tough lost to Houston and wins over Phoenix and Utah.

Houston wins over Lakers, Utah and Portland.

QUESTION - other than Chicago 0-3 with losses to NJ, Philly and Milwaukee - who has had a disappointing 1st weekend?

Will anyone respect the MAVs if they have a 70 win season, or will it all come down to the playoffs?


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www.nba.com/raptors/news/swirsky


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