Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pm  |  69 responses

Chris Bosh Isn’t Happy With Booing Toronto Fans

by Marcel Mutoni

It wasn’t too long ago, that folks were discussing Chris Bosh and casually tossing around the word “MVP”. They even did with a straight face. Including Bosh himself. Not sure if you’ve noticed, but that’s completely stopped.

The Raptors have been awful of late, losing 8 of their last 10 ballgames, including last night’s disaster at home against the Mavs. And that’s when the lustful booing began, leaving the Raptors’ leader none too happy.

From the Toronto Star:

“If I wanted to get booed, I’d go on the road. It’s real tense right now. When you’re down three points at home and you’re hearing boos, that’s kind of disheartening.”

“Whether the crowd knows it or not, they play a big part in the game.”

You’re in luck, Chris. Your team is heading on a six-game road trip, far away from those Canadian meanies in the stands.

As for the Toronto faithful, I hope they realize that this guy can bolt in a couple of years. Might wanna think about putting a little more effort into cheering the team when it returns home, guys.

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  • Jeronimo Posted: Dec.18 at 12:07 pm
    These Raptors are painful to watch. Why on Earth they don’t box out for rebounds is beyond me.

  • uptown kid Posted: Dec.18 at 12:15 pm
    thats tuff

  • Jess Posted: Dec.18 at 12:16 pm
    I was frustrated watching the game last night too, but thought the fans on hand were a bit a head of themselves. Bosh had a bad night and he knows it – but hey the team is in a slump right now and the fans (even though they may be a bit frustrated – imagine the players) have to stick it out and cheer them on. I dont balme CB for being upset, I would be too – but he also has to be careful how this is handled…we all know that raps fans can hold grudges right…I am starting to feel like I am one of the few optomistic Raps fans still hanging on…its coming..I know it

  • thesubwayconnection Posted: Dec.18 at 12:17 pm
    They’ve talked for the past *month* about playing better defense, rebounding and running. They still haven’t done it. Fans are sick and tired of the talk and want to see them actually do the things they’ve discussed with the media.

  • wilz Posted: Dec.18 at 12:18 pm
    Someone’s gotta tell Bosh the fans aren’t booing them, they’re booing the terrible way they are playing. When you take jumpshot after jumpshot (and miss), usually you should try doing something else. Unfortunately, in the Raptor’s case, they kept going to what wasn’t working until they lost the lead and then some. Btw Bosh, when your shot isn’t falling, a contested 3 isnt the best way to get your team back in it in the fourth…you aren’t Dirk…it’s Bargnani’s job to try to be Dirk and fail. What happened to in-the-paint Bosh? He’ll be back…and then the streak will begin……

  • Keith Posted: Dec.18 at 12:24 pm
    Don’t like Bosh at all but I agree completley with what he’s saying. Home is meant to be the one place that you’re loved and appreciated and it’s gotta kill them to hear the boos. Having said that, I dislike the guy, so he can screw himself.

  • AD25 Posted: Dec.18 at 12:32 pm
    He just needs to make another Youtube video.

  • ciolkstar Posted: Dec.18 at 12:36 pm
    Booing when your team is down 3 is pretty dumb. Thats one shot… Oh, and T Dot if you’re tired of Bosh already, don’t worry. He’ll be gone in a couple year’s anyway. Those Canadian taxes are killer.

  • TADOne Posted: Dec.18 at 12:45 pm
    Play better.

  • adams Posted: Dec.18 at 1:00 pm
    In the 10 games since Bosh announced his plans for MVP he’s been averaging around 17 points on 40% shooting. Just stating the facts.

  • TO Fan Posted: Dec.18 at 1:03 pm
    I can appreciate Bosh’s frustration but he is looking to the wrong place when he critizes the fans. The fans booed the team because they gave up on themselves and the game. If you want to hear cheers then you defend your home court. If you mail in the second half – you should expect to hear boos. Bosh needs to look at his team and their performance for the answers. The T.O. Fans have been behind this francise for years and have repeatedly been witness to underperfomance and excuses. B.C. is right to say that this is the most talanted team since 2000/2001, so why are they playing like a D-leauge team. Bosh started strong and made noise about being a leader (MVP even)on this team – but he has not had any impact on those around him who repeatedly refuse to box out, will not take it to the rim and continue to throw up jump shots. Lately Bosh has been doing the same and I am not sure if he is trying to send a message to his team to step up, or if he is just frustrated with giving a 100% with little support – But he is the undesputed leader of this team. This has been his team needs to answer to him – not the fans. The fans will cheer his leadership.

  • Sparker Posted: Dec.18 at 1:28 pm
    boo

  • G8RS Posted: Dec.18 at 1:36 pm
    Would they prefer a deafening silence, then? As opposed to a boo?

  • Spaceship Jay Posted: Dec.18 at 1:55 pm
    Booo. He’s leaving anyway.

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  • Ryan Jones Posted: Dec.18 at 2:10 pm
    Yet another reminder that all Canadians are *ssholes.

  • Migs Posted: Dec.18 at 2:11 pm
    Stating that they were down by 3 when the boos started is taking everything out of context. What about the fact that the team (once again) gave up an early lead and coasted its way through the rest of the game without raising its intensity level? How about the countless jump shots this team continues to take at inopportune moments in the game? What about the reluctant nature these guys have when it comes to driving to the rim? What about the last few games where Bosh was abused by Ryan frickin Anderson and Josh Boone, Brook Lopez, and Devean George, despite supposedly having an advantage over these players. Bosh and company, give your heads a shake. These fans are shelling out hard earned money to watch their team compete, and you continue to provide us with mediocre, lackadaisical play. Nobody boxes out, there’s no movement, Jose seems to have forgotten what a fast break was, Bosh prefers to hoist jumpers after wasting most of the shot clock daydreaming about his next Youtube video, they can’t guard anyone, and the skill level on the team is woefully inadequate. The worst part is, nobody is really doing anything about it. The booing wasn’t a result of only 2 quarters in that game. It’s been brewing due to loss after disappointing loss, and fans have had enough. I hope MLSE at least has the decency to lower ticket prices.

  • underdog Posted: Dec.18 at 2:19 pm
    Maybe somebody should stop shooting airballs, and missing dunks.

  • underdog Posted: Dec.18 at 2:21 pm
    Or let’s just blame the “tough” Mavs defense!

  • Migs Posted: Dec.18 at 2:25 pm
    Oh, I almost forgot… our supposed “saviour” (yes, we spell it with a “u” here in Canada) GM Bryan Colangelo totally dropped the ball on Andrea Bargnani… This guy will never be Dirk Nowitzki, and as first picks go, he’s up there with Kwame Brown and Michael Olowokandi. To make matters worse, he packaged away a 1st rounder for a raw 2nd rounder with a heart problem, and has not stocked up any worthwhile young talent in his tenure here. If Bosh bolts, and we are unable to draw any top-tier free agents to Toronto, this team will not be able to compete in the D-League

  • TADOne Posted: Dec.18 at 2:33 pm
    Leave it to Ryan to diss Marcel, Chris, and Holly is one fell swoop.

  • Drinky Crow Posted: Dec.18 at 2:36 pm
    glug glug glug

  • vmcb Posted: Dec.18 at 2:37 pm
    BC has done a pretty terrible job of collecting talent of late. Wheres the bench? Bargnani is a bust. Roko and Solomon can’t handle the back up duties. Kapono plays well one out of every five games. This team is incredibly frustrating to watch. Its almost as if they’re happy to lose. I’ve been a Toronto fan for years, and I’d boo, too.

  • wilz Posted: Dec.18 at 3:29 pm
    did anyone listen closely to the booing last night? it sounded wretched, more like purging than booing…representing the sick feeling every Raptors fan is feeling these days.
    unlike the angry New York boos every draft night, it was a painful despairing moan

  • Sean Gaudet Posted: Dec.18 at 3:50 pm
    If Bosh doesn’t wanna get booed he should step up

  • Moose Posted: Dec.18 at 4:17 pm
    Bosh is speakin’ the truth. Booing ain’t gonna make your team any better. Hear that, OKC?

  • JDB Posted: Dec.18 at 4:21 pm
    Dam right frustrated watching this game.
    I dont really care if bosh played bad last night but whats with mr. bustnani…putting him in the game when your “down by three” … not a good time to play around and develop your game son.

  • BETCATS Posted: Dec.18 at 4:43 pm
    well they already ran their god Vince Carter out of town, so i wouldnt be suprised if the Canadians do it agian.

  • Migs Posted: Dec.18 at 5:06 pm
    What’s up with this anti-Canada sentiment? We’re already dealing with an underachieving team, and still the Americans talk crap…

  • Tzvi T Posted: Dec.18 at 5:14 pm
    Settin up the excuse for his exit. Wave by to T Dot and Hello to NYC…

  • Boing Dynasty Posted: Dec.18 at 5:31 pm
    Does a guy who was talking about wanting an MVP really want to put himself in a position to be LBJ’s Scottie?

  • rav Posted: Dec.18 at 5:35 pm
    “well they already ran their god Vince Carter out of town” i seem to remember vince quitting on the team and crying his way out of toronto, not so much the fans running him out of town.

  • Brar Posted: Dec.18 at 5:46 pm
    BC, please make a trade.. that includes bargnani.

  • rav Posted: Dec.18 at 5:55 pm
    thats his only decent trade bait left – IMO he’s waiting for a february firesale

  • Balher Posted: Dec.18 at 7:22 pm
    As a raptor fan myself i respect CB4 for what he’s sayin, but every game it’s the same thing being out rebounded giving up leads. This teams needs a consistent outside scorer.

  • Ulee Posted: Dec.18 at 7:31 pm
    Dear Bosh, suck it up. ahhh … try playing on the Knicks. The fans boo if you tie your laces wrong.

  • Jess Posted: Dec.18 at 8:10 pm
    All the comments about Canadian are pretty ridiculous…but anyways – VC wasnt chased out of town – he left on HIS terms (cowardly..but hey what can ya say…nothing bcos when we say anything about VC its “bcos we a raps fans and need to let it go”… apparently..) As for the starting lineup…Ok Kapono played well for like a game..please bring back Parker – it just doesnt make sense to talk about our bad defence and then play start Jason Kapono…hmmmm. I agree with what Bosh said, and I can also see where the fans are coming from…we remember what the old raps looked like and we dont wanna see that again (even though we are very FAR from that)…but hey when they are playing TERRIBLE and cant score the ball or rebound and are only down by 3…wow…oh and I think BC needs to make a trade..for like 2 weeks now I am expecting to wake up and see that there has been a trade in TO…and it hasnt come yet….but its coming – Bryan Colangelo is probably working the phones as we speak..Joey Graham better be staying though, and I dont see him trading Andrea..just a hunch…I am optomistic..still, but if we lose tomorrow to OKC then I dont know….

  • ClydeSays Posted: Dec.18 at 8:47 pm
    Weren’t the Raps supposed to challenge the Celts & Cavs for Eastern supremecy? I guess that was before they traded TJ for a broken down JO. Whatever happened to Colangelo’s run and gun plan? They can shoot and they’re athletic. Make them run. And um, I don’t know what you do with Jermaine…

  • chintao Posted: Dec.18 at 8:54 pm
    I respect the kid’s game, but he needs to grow a bit if this thing genuinely bothers him. Also, with regard to the photo on the sidebar, who’s idea was it to put Chris Bosh in “Gay-Cowboy Chic”?

  • Melo Man TO Posted: Dec.18 at 9:53 pm
    He needs to stop being so sensitive, i’ve been a raps fan for my whole basketball life and i wudn’t hate on them without a reason, and now i have reason.
    This team is soooo boringgggg. i can’t even watch whole games because there is no excitement or energy. I’D watch the teams from 04 and 05. atleast they had some direction. im not sure were this team is heading but they need to take a note from Obama and start thinkin bout change

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  • Gerard Himself Posted: Dec.18 at 10:09 pm
    When I watched them play my Nets a couple of days ago in Toronto, the Raptors missed 14 straights shots in the 4th. What I also noticed is they just froze out Bosh. He didn’t receive the ball anymore. It was weird to see. Good luck to CB4, he needs it.

  • Time Intact Posted: Dec.18 at 10:33 pm
    People who didn’t watch the game look foolish saying the crowd shouldn’t boo with the Raptors down only 3. They were booing because the team was up around 15 points and just let it all fizzle away which has been the case lately with this team. I love CB4, but if he wants the boos to stop: play better and lead your team, being the franchise player and all.

  • stevie harper Posted: Dec.19 at 12:18 am
    ok ok we get it…
    any player is Canada should be pampered because they would always rather
    go
    back home.
    We get it.
    Really.
    Every article ever written about any baller (of repute) in Canada mentions this. ad nauseum. And,
    we get it.
    (truth be told, we’d rather be home then away too).

  • stevie harper Posted: Dec.19 at 12:21 am
    And real fans don’t boo when there’s effort from their club, they stay as focused on support as the players do on playing.
    And there are A LOT of such Raptor fans. Trust.

  • Justin Posted: Dec.19 at 12:30 am
    I think the crowd and management have doomed themselves. Bosh is leaving in 2010.

  • wilz Posted: Dec.19 at 1:54 am
    everyone’s getting all excited about two years from now instead of enjoying the NBA now…its like nothing matters except in relation to what happens in free agency that year. what got lost in all this is the fact that the raptor fans were still supporting their team by chanting and cheering defence, but when they made a dumb offensive move for the 15th time in a row, the fans booed. educated crowd was tired of keeping their true feelings in..

  • Roy Posted: Dec.19 at 4:48 am
    Free Chris Bosh! :D

  • Roy Posted: Dec.19 at 5:54 am
    I don’t blame CB4 for feeling that way…

  • Flash Posted: Dec.19 at 7:51 am
    trade JO and Bargnani to miami 4 shawn marion!

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  • jasondolemite Posted: Dec.19 at 10:10 am
    Ryan Jones is a retard. I’m not from Canada, but I’m sick of hearing stupid sh*t from stupid people.

  • alx Posted: Dec.19 at 1:35 pm
    lol, Raptors fans should be thanking their lucky stars Bosh even stuck around in the first place. The more they Boo, the more likely he’ll leave in 2010. LOL @ all the butthurt Raptors fans trying to rationalize/defend the booing.

  • McNulty Posted: Dec.19 at 4:22 pm
    CB – we still love you, but you’ve lost 8 of the last 10 & haven’t really competed … what do you expect? Oh, & Ryan Jones is stupid.

  • Anton Posted: Dec.19 at 6:21 pm
    “I was saying Boo-urns”

  • rapsfan43 Posted: Dec.19 at 6:44 pm
    alright. raps fans have some reason to boo. the team hasn’t played up to par (on paper) and with all the hype in the off season, they remind me of the clippers. but that don’t mean bosh is leaving. also, jones has no place in hell to be saying that. taxes, dollar wwhatever you wanna make fun of canada is twice the country usa will ever be. Go raptors go. see you in 2010 and beyond CB4.

  • Orlando Green Posted: Dec.19 at 6:54 pm
    screw bosh…this new website is horrible..

  • wilz Posted: Dec.20 at 12:54 am
    lol @ anton. look at rapfan43 go…its BOLD out

  • Oliver Miller Posted: Dec.20 at 12:47 pm
    Last word on this subject – Raps lose to Oklahoma City, for crying out loud, & can’t even put 90 points on them. OKC’s record is as bad as their name. Raps are losing all the time. That merits booing.

  • wassup Posted: Dec.20 at 5:10 pm
    i dont give a bakers f*** if its rude to boo your home team… the fans are the ones payin for the players salaries so they can do whatever they want and when there team is playin like a bunch of pussies they have every right to boo. the raps have to get there act together and im happy they got booed.

  • Kevin Posted: Dec.20 at 8:51 pm
    I think Chris needs to step it up.

  • Anna Posted: Dec.21 at 1:55 am
    bosh sucks – he deserved the booing. fans pay hard-earned money to watch their teams play, not to watch them suck. we know when they’re not giving their all, and i think that if anything, it’s unfair to the fans, and it’s unfair to his teammates. something needs to be done about the raptors, because it’s just embarrassing now.

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  • Dr. J Posted: Dec.22 at 3:04 am
    Like someone mentioned, if you didn’t watch the game, don’t just say the fans booed when the team was down 3. You look really stupid saying that. That games was their 3rd straight loss AT HOME. Bosh kept on shooting jumpshot after jumpshot that never made it, and what was the smartest thing to do after that? Isn’t it to try driving? Mr. Bosh didn’t seem to think so. He seemed to think the next best idea was to try a 3-pointer. 2 for that matter. None of them went in. He even missed a dunk and both of his only free throws. Secondly, it’s not like they booed him throughout the game, it was just an isolated incident when he missed those 2 free throws. The crowd weren’t pleased. Watching their team crumble at home in 3 consecutive games isn’t going to get them any excited.

  • Dr. J Posted: Dec.22 at 3:06 am
    And what do you know, they got outhustled by OKC Blunder the very next game. Wait…I didn’t hear the OKC crowd booing him…did you?

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  • unbelievable Posted: Jan.23 at 12:36 am
    this is nuts, I watch almost every raps game and the T.O fans barely ever boo their own team. In fact this is one of the only times I can remember where the fans boo’ed their own team (and who can blame them this year). But as far as him bolting, if a few boo’s hurts his feelings enough for him to jump ship than get the F*** out.

  • Amy Posted: Jan.24 at 5:50 pm
    Chris andthe team have to do way better

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