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The Big Three In My Opinion, as of late ive been watching alot of Entourage, 30 Rock and Will’s part in Anchorman will go down as my all-time favourite.
This is my ticket for the Sunday Afternoon game I recently attended.
What is MLSE thinking? We as fans do not have any appreciation for this player anymore, the booing ensured right from the introductions, continued with every ball touch, even on inbounds with the clock stopped. He did not exactly torch the Raptors like in previous contests, as Management has finally found players to stop these kinds of guards, but honouring or remembrance of him is totally unecessary. How about HEDO in the ticket? The guy is facing his former team, with the potential to torch his club just like the player on the stub has each chance he has gotten against the Raptors.
Heres the Recap on a Huge Game for Canada’s Basketball Team.
TS: Raptors Loose by just one point to the League-Best Pheonix Suns, run by Canadian Steve Nash playing against Canada’s Basketball team, coached by Canadian Jay Triano. Hockey will always have its place as Canada’s true sport, but on a night when only American teams won, this game was prime-time.
It was lost as Hedo Turkoglu, brought in during this past offseason to have the ball in his hands in the 4th, saw his open shot just rim out. This game was so fitting to have the Raptors win, as Hedo hit those shots against LeBron and Kobe just weeks before he was sent to the Raptors in the summer.
This game is BIG for Toronto and Canada. As the Toronto Maple Leafs got a month head start to their 82 games, and have put up only 3 wins - The Toronto Raptors have 5, enough for a playoff spot (I know it’s early).
For Toronto sports this year just may be the Toronto Raptors. With TFC just recently eliminated from playoff contention, the Blue Jays far from it, and the Maple Leafs off to a horrible start, the Toronto Raptors in their 15th season just may be able to energize the city once again.
With a solid starting lineup featuring recently-acquired clutch shooting Hedo Turkoglu, All-Star forward Chris Bosh, and regular star players Andrea Bargnani and Jose Calderon, this four-headed monster just may be the right one to lead the team to the Playoffs.
The new season for the Raptors starts in 2 days, with a game in Toronto against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Many experts predict the Chemistry of this team not to be there so soon, and state it will be a season long process of learning the cohesion needed, but also say that when this team is good they will be exciting to watch.
I’m predicting: 45-37, 6th in the East, 2nd in the Atlantic.
Yes everyone who follows, its been a while since a post.
Just finished watching this, Its the first view of NBA calibur play from the 2009-10 Toronto Raptors team! The game was played yesterday in Ottawa, Chris Bosh and Hedo Turkoglu were not active, but the team still looked great! Go Raps Go!
Ah, a more familiar sight. Aaron Hill and his 32nd homer, breaking a deadlock score. Proving once again he is the “Most Interesting 2B in Baseball(TM)”.
6 wins in 9 games for the Jays. I’ll just give a silent cheer for now. Otherwise, I often make bad decisions when a team that isn’t used to winning starts doing the unusual.
TS: Hill just may be the team’s most consistent player of the season, but will that only lead to his trade value to skyrocket him out of Toronto come this offseason?
TS: The Raptors X-Factors this season are definitely a dual effort of Hedo Turkoglue and Andrea Bargnani, but in comparison to the teams they are tied with (ie. Washington & Philadelphia) it seems as though when Hedo was in Orlando and last year in terms of Andrea, these were the teams they played exceptionally well against.
Before taking a look at the Raptors squad, I originally guessed the team this year had 6, but surprsingly the 2009-10 Raptors have 11 FIRSTROUND PICKS (and 2 Undrafted Players):
Rasho Nesterovic
Hedo Turkoglu
Chris Bosh
Marcus Banks
Antoine Wright
Jarret Jack
Andrea Bargnani
Patrick O’Byrant
Quincy Douby
Marco Belinelli
DeMar DeRozan
Jose Calderon and Reggie Evans went Undrafted.
TS: I believe with this situation, the Raptors have can have two perspectives: one being these players still have either the best basketball of their career ahead of them or are already perennial players and will make an extremely positive impact, or the players who are stars will continue to perform at their peaks, players never break the starting rotation, and will be forced to flourish on other teams. With the Raptors I will not make any predictions just yet, in terms of standings placing, but I will gather that this team will sure as hell be exciting to watch.
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written by: Kenneth Bache
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