Toronto Raptors Rant

[m5racer]

ok so i needed to fume after the game i just saw with the raps vs ATL. i cant believe that the raptors are loosening to so many teams under .500. I mean in this game alone there defense was shit...atl made 12/22 3's and were out rebounded by around 10 rebounds. not only that but with like 15 seconds left and the raps were up by 3 they actually gave the teams two best players 3 open look 3's and the third attempt tied the game. then then on top of all that they robbed ford of that beautiful layup with only .5 seconds left. sorry but i needed to rant beucase i cant belive that this team got so shitty in the last bit of the season since bosh got injured. Colangalo really has to get shit straightened out in the off season and get some players here who can actually defend and get rebounds beucase this is getting out of hand.

again sorry had to rant beucase im really pissed they should have won this game!

oh and if we end up 7th for the playoffs we are gonna get embarrassed and swept by detroit becuase we cannot defend for our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bunnn]

while I support raptors I really don't feel that we can make it pass the first round this year, even though we have beaten some of these teams....come play off, the top 4, no matter who we face..okay well maybe orlando, but besides that, we don't have a chance...

but yeah i'm pretty pissed that they got robbed, overlooked the shotclock begin time rather then the end....the refs are gonna be shooting themselves when they review this...

[m5racer]

realisticaly some big changed defensivly need to be made. and not being racest or anything but need need a few more players of "colour" on this team beucase this all european crap doesent cut it when u got huge guys throwing our entier team around. oh an Bargnani was the worst pick of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thus far he has been dead weight almost the entier season. he is way to streaky we need some one more consistent then him. man they way they are playing now i dont even what to watch the playoffs because its gonna hurt way too much watching them get swept

[02B6]

on the brighter side. its the only decent Toronto team we have. the only playoff team.

[bunnn]

on another note, while I appreciate how good Ford is, I'm at a lost of excitement for him when he hogs, at lot of the games where we lost was because he took unnecessary shots...

[m5racer]

ya but he was doing a lot of hogging when he was coming off the bench being the big baby that he is and the fact that he cant deal with coming off the bench

[MagnusS4]

i wanna see the $ books for the raptors... how are there teams that can afford to have players such as nash, shaq, stoudemire, bell, hill, and barbosa all in their line up....
theres no way that equates to something like bosh, ford, moon, calderon, defino etc...

we must have $ around SOMEWHERE and we need to throw some of it at some other franchise players or potential franchise players (chris paul, david west, kevin martin, rashard lewis, etc). to give support to bosh and ford.

[m5racer]

i wanna see the $ books for the raptors.

your wish is my command: POFF

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/toronto.htm

and its suprising how little and how much some players actually get. like lebron only makes 8 mil this year and 10 the next while shaq makes liek 20 or something stupid

all i know is that Radoslav Nesterovic makes wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy to much money for the shitty player that he is. only in march and this month he has proven he is a skilled player but at $7,840,000 this year and $8,400,000 for next year we could get some players that are way better then him!

[bunnn]

simple, the US teams have better financial backings...i mean look at boston....just KG alone this year is probably the cost of our whole starting line up

[MagnusS4]

m5racer nice link

look at Boston for example. from what the website says they only spend 13-14 million more then us on their players.... that basically is 1 franchiser player and a crap player or 2 middle of the pack players.

where is this money coming from in the first place i assume things like ticket sales, merch., etc?

if theres only a small diff of 13-14 million spending differences between Toronto and Boston, I'm surreee there ways to pull some strings and offer side deals....

i.e. lebron he might not make that much on his NBA salary, but a few side deals, endorsements etc., later he's probably of the richest players out there

[bunnn]

i thought lebron has already surpassed the 1 billion mark?...but we're dreaming if we think we can get lbj hahaha....maybe some1 like marion, since his contracts over....and I personally think hes a nice addition, although if he likes the spotlight..raps might not be the team he would like to be in..

[m5racer]

ya i ahve also talked to some friends about marion comming over to toronto. and yes the problem is he likes the spotlight a little too much. i heard rumers that, that along with the fact that he was a bitchy guy in the locker room was teh reason why the suns got rid of him. comming to tronto we have enough problems already and all the players get along

[MagnusS4]

i wouldn't take him even if he wanted to come to toronto. theres no way he can carry a team. he's not that type of player...

[bunnn]

only other plausible trades, at least in my mind, is Arenas....but honestly I don't like him...hes way too arrogant...even though hes good..

back to the james idea...lbj ...haha i wish we can get him... =D