Chris Bosh’s Mounting Frustration

Sonny Weems has been playing well when he gets adequate playing time. Antoine Wright, too. Trust me the Raptors are not lacking in a bench compared to last year (Jason Kapono).

Some of you are ridiculous for saying that the raps suck because their foreign players don’t care if they win or lose. Total crap! Triano is a terrible coach and bosh just isn’t that good. Bargs needs to work on the boards more but is a keeper, so is jack. Triano just won’t let turk play the point forward like he did in orlando. He’s one of those players that just operate better with the ball. Calderon hasn’t been the same and weems needs more minutes. Their d is terrible but i would mostly blame triano here. He shouldn’t be an nba coach! Bosh is gone. Eboy is nuts thinking their lineup is made up of non-americans so losing doesn’t bother them. Where the hell did you get that? Some of the foreign players in the league have the most fire and would kill for loose balls. Get out of here with that crap man. They suck because of the player rotation and lack of d. Bosh thinks he belongs in the upper echelon when he’s clearly not. Put in randolph or jefferson in his place and they get the same numbers. Bosh is just not that special.

I’d have to agree with Teddy’s point that the Rap bench has outplayed the starters this year. Obviously, the Raps bench mob are individually less talented than the starters. But the bench definitely puts in more effort, especially defensively.

Problem with the Raptors is that they were put together in a confused fashion. Whoever makes the personnel decisions – Colangelo? – wanted to create a “Euro” team. But their idea of going Euro meant going pure finesse. Are European players pure finesse? No, but Raptors management thinks so. The Raptors HAD one or two Euro guys who actually had more than one testicle to call their own – namely, Delfino and Garbajosa. Delfino, for all his trigger-happy flaws, rebounds and attacks tenaciously. We let him go. And Garbajosa plays a lot like Rick Fox – gritty and smart – even though he’s not athletic. Again, we let him go.

Teddy, I mean, if you claim you’ve watched every single Toronto game, I gotta take yer word for it, but the Toronto game’s I’ve watched (20-30 something) Amir Johnson has been underwhelming in every sense of the word. I’m even surprised you’re name dropping him. I’ll have to watch him closer next time, but just from a quick glance, his stats don’t show the same story, even per 36 minutes (in which he’d amazingly have over fouled out every game).
I’m torn on DeRozan. Dude looks like he has a bright offensive future and a terrible defensive future. That being said, the same could be said for ever Raptor, so I don’t see any reason not to give him playing time.
I agree Hedo needs to lose some playing time. Dude got his paycheck, now he’s gotta take the hit for underperforming.

Although, on second thought, maybe we shouldn’t justify saying “the team is full of euros so go figure they don’t get heated when losing”
The Celtics are dropping the ball in a very similar way end-of-the-year. Should we say “well, they’re full of American born players so go figure!”

Mo Pete was a very bad defender when he started out too. I don’t know if you guys recall his first 2 seasons. He gambled a lot and made really stupid mistakes. It’s not like we got Demar thinking he’d be a lockdown defender right away. He’s actually living up to expectations… like Jukai said, showing a lot of promise offensively and being a poor defender. Give him minutes and let him make mistakes now so he learns from them and makes less a few years from now. And let’s try not to run him out of town in 2013 or something.

^ Scola, Ginobli, and Nene are South American, noob.