Raptors lose again, fall under .500
If you would have told me during our winning streak that we would fall to under .500, I would have pointed to how many under .500 teams we had coming up on the schedule and called you stone-cold crazy.
Fast forward to today after another embarrassing and gut wrenching loss to the hapless Warriors yesterday and a tough loss to the Blazers last night and the Raptors are in serious trouble. Now in danger of dropping out of the playoff race altogether, and as a result losing Bosh this summer, only the Chicago Bulls’ injury troubles are keeping us in the playoff hunt, with both Noah, Deng and Rose all ‘banged’ up (a little convenient considering the circumstances), the Raptors are still in the playoff picture despite looking like 1b to the Nets as the worst team in the league the past 12 games.
Bosh is pissed. Fans are pissed. Antoine Wright is pissed. The Raptors continue to underwhelm and disappoint and if the worst happens this summer, really, who can blame him?
The Raptors have to pull it together fast, or run the risk of losing Bosh. Most fans will agree that it will take moving to the second round of the playoffs to for Bosh to agree to stay with the Raps; however none will disagree with the fact that if we do not make the playoffs, we have no chance at retaining Bosh.
Doomsday is upon us Raptor fans, and it is now up to our team to play every game like it is indeed a playoff game. Fans are now questioning Bryan Colangelo’s inactiveness and seeming complacency at the trade deadline, especially if the most substantial talks included another role playing big in Josh Powell.
It is now painfully obvious that we have serious chemistry issues or that we are still one key piece away, the problem is, we cant do much about that now; its all up to the Raptors players to crawl out of the 8 foot hole they have dug for themselves.
“I’ve had to have a few games to get back to my normal self,” Bosh said. “It took a toll on us but that’s the reality. We’re just going to have to dig ourselves out of this hole and nobody can do it for us but ourselves.” – Source: Yahoo Sports
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How about Bargnani crap play of as late, wait, well no not really … He has been crap since Day 1! He always seems to shy away from contact down deep in the post and never gets us any offensive rebounds or key defensive rebounds. How about we start putting the blame on him and on Triano for giving this loser extended minutes.
Rasho when played, we saw greatness out of him. We need more burn from Rasho out there.
When we miss the playoffs, the axe should fall on Triano but really it won’t, rookie coach is signed for 3 years and MLSE and the powers that be will not want to pay out another coach. Point the fingers at BC! Team is horrid and was I really the only one seeing this from day 1?
I agree, I am not fond of 7 foot centers who cant rebound
Triano will be fired if Bosh leaves and/or if we do not make the playoffs.
I believe the Triano signing, like the Hedo and Jack moves, were made to placate Bosh, if he bolts, Triano and Turk will likely find themselves jettisoned from the Raptors
As far as knowing the team would be this bad, well, yes, I guess you are one of the only ones, alot of Raptor fans were cautiously optimistic, but none envisioned us being 6 games over and than falling apart and missing the playoffs.
Salmons to the Bucks and S-Jax to the Bobcats really changed the power dynamic in the East, and the Raptors need someone beside Bosh to get to the free thrown line
Also, BC is the one who drafted with his heart and took fellow Italian Andrea Bargnani when Tyrus or LaMarcus or even Gay, Roy or Rodno would have been a better fit than a project big. He can score but, he is not what we need or needed with Bosh in town.
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