Game Thread: Raptor style

Minnesota Timberwolves – Toronto Raptors

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check that, Bassy with the and-1 of the year.

.you pat cardinal on the butt and tell your teammates during the next whistle that you’ll pay the fine for whatever happens. He should have been tossed on that shove in the back.

de boy bosh mayn. he juss seems like sum1 dat aint gon EVA win a championchip mayn nah mean? now if he signs wit dantoni an lebron den dass a diff story…

and looks no better than Rashad McCants just chuckin up shots.

…on the bench.

…that’s it.

…http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3931801

…the KG trade will be even harder to swallow if he wins with Steph.

If a shooter jumps IN to a defender, the foul should be on the shooter. I seriously hope the NBA has a major revision of it’s refs and rules sometime soon.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Marko-Jaric-marries-Victoria-s-Secret-beauty-Adr?urn=nba,143671

one of the prizes of the 2010 FA market? Every time I see him play, he is underwhelming.

he did dominate for team usa last summer, that was a pretty good team

GM Mac had drafted anyone that could play some D? I think he’s starting to figure it out. No interior D and no perimeter D = OH CRAP!!!

…has been dick vitale-ized. it’s terrible.

The extra minutes and all the games look like they have definitely taken their toll.

Love still gets position for rebounding at center, it just doesnt compensate for the height difference. His weakness on D is the same thing, his height. Otherwise he’s had a good game I thought with 15 pts 2 ast

just catching up on the thread and I’m amazed there’s no pimping for the Hoopus suite in April.

…not something I thought I’d see when I woke up this morning.

seriously

…kind of cheap.

…I’m out. Time to go watch the prez.

I will drive to Minneapolis and beat him my self…

What is MAC doing?

Randy Wittman is shocked that this 4th quarter line-up for the Wolves blew the game. Ryan Gomes at Center vs Bosh…how could we go wrong?

With Big Al out… But there are some very disturbing things happening with our favorite team:

Our coach plays our best player way too many minutes when it doesn’t matter, and won’t play him at all when it does.
Our coach won’t even put anything close to a Center on the floor.
Mike Miller will absolutely NOT try to score more.

Maybe we’re already looking at lottery balls, but I wish we’d show a little more effort. The Wolves front office, of all people, should know how pointless lottery balls are.

At this point, and after games like this, it almost looks like our Organization is tanking for the lottery. I mean, how else can you explain some of this stuff? Playing Ollie so many minutes? Playing Gomes at center? Not playing Love? Playing lineups consisting of Smith, Ollie, Carney, Cardinal, Bobby Brown… I mean, seriously, wtf? This game was just complete crap and is hardly worth the time for any of us to get upset about. If our FO doesn’t care, then why should we?

With that said, Gomes has been playing GREAT lately. Shame on all of you for ripping him. At times, he’s clearly been our best all-around player and it’s not even close. He’s really stepped up his point production lately too.

How sad is it that Mike Miller almost gets triple doubles every few games, yet the thing holding him back is scoring TEN POINTS! My goodness, what a joke. What is he doing out there? How many times does he drive the lane and pass it. He’s shot less than a dozen mid range jumpers by my count this season. It’s either a lay-up or a three pointer. He could seriously be scoring 20 much needed points per game, but he flat-out REFUSES to shoot the ball. He had 10 shots in 38 minutes tonight, when he should have shot about 20 times. Good lord Miller, we didn’t bring you here to play PG! How easy is it for other teams to defend him? All the coach has to say is don’t let him shoot wide open threes, and otherwise just play off him so he doesn’t drive the lane. That would render him useless. I hope we trade him this summer or next trade deadline at the latest.

P.S. I guess its kinda on McHale to MAKE him shoot. I mean, he’s the coach! Why is he letting Miller play like this? Is it their gameplan for him? Does the staff tell him to do these things? If so, that’s beyond baffling.

Rough game for Love, but only 23 minutes? Man, he gets absolutely BRUTALIZED downlow, as does our entire team. We have no capable big men at all, and any team with even average big men should have little problems with us. We need a capable center ASAP. If for no reason but so that Love’s confidence is not completely destroyed going against bigger, stronger players that just own him.

Looks like Foye is back to playing no defense whatsoever. 1 assist and 2 rebounds makes an otherwise stellar offensive game only average at best. Oh wait, Miller was doing all those things for some odd reason.

Telfair was not great but not horrible. 4 steals helps his cause.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, our bench flat out sucks. None of those guys would be playing regular minutes on most of the other teams in the entire league. I did enjoy Cardinal tonight though. His antics against Bosh brought smiles to my face. I appreciate that yeoman work he was doing. I just wish we didn’t have to rely on someone like him to come in and play consistent minutes to win games. That is a recipe for failure going into the future.

Bobby Brown reminds me soooo much of McCants, it’s making me cringe. Same number, the headband, the arm sleeve, the stature, the playing style. Ugh. Definitely NOT what College Wolf wanted to see tonight.

Where was Sheldon Williams? WHAT DOES IT HURT to play him? I mean look at our other “bigs!”

Bargnani has been brilliant this year. Maybe he won’t be a bust after all. He owned us so bad it wasn’t even funny. Very versatile and I am liking what he brings to the table. Maybe it was just because no one on our team could guard him, who knows.

Bosh showed flashes of brilliance, as well as flashes of being a “second banana.” If you put him and LeBron together on any team in the league, that would equal multiple titles. Can you imagine Bosh, LeBron, and Nash on the Knicks in 2010? Sick.

Gomes did great against Marion. What an idiot he was to force himself out of Phoenix. Just ridiculous. He’ll never come anywhere near those types of numbers again… or the paychecks.

Calderon didn’t seem like he was really doing much, yet still dropped 15 points, 13 assists and 5 boards. Nice game.

It was a travesty what Anthony Parker did against us tonight. Good lord, how embarrassing.

I guess I could see that as being a viable guess as to what they are doing…