Pain5155

Thats wat Mitchell shouldve said.

ABargnani

lol

We probably would've won if TJ Ford played

flushingflash

evenm though darrick is great...he made a couple fo poor choices in the last couple of minutes...oh well..at the end of the day im not that pissed...it was phoenix afterall...bosh played a great game...bargnani hit some big shots...when TJ comes back....the raps will be ready to make a run...no excuses left after that.

streetballa

they actually did better than i thought they would, and in the end only lost by 2 points. we probably would have won if nash hadnt made those damn 3 free throws at the end.

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ss03

Yea but I mean... Thats almost like saying we would have won if we scored more points than the opposing team. Which is kind of a given.

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Seuss

I wish someone told me earlier that Gnarls Barkley played
for the Raptors......

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Ras

That's right when I clued into the game. Seeing Bosh make big plays like that down the stretch is nice.

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SkywalkerAC

I can take this loss. The guys showed composure coming back from the deficit against a great team. They played pretty good defense for most of the game. Bosh was impressive in his first game back; he looked strong.

Now we just need TJ back for our big January push.

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seifer0406

Well, on the bright side, looks like Bosh is back to his old self. The Raptors probably would've won if Ford and Garbajosa played. Does anyone know the status for both of them for next game?

shapeshifter

I have to agree with speedy and madman about the refs. It seemed like Amare could push and shove around anybody on the floor and not get called for it. What really drove me crazy was when AB drove to his right twice in a row and Amare appeared to body-check him both times and not get called for it. Then there was the over the back on Mo-pete in the fourth, how the refs didn't call a foul on that is beyond me.

I can live with the refs putting their whistles away but there comes a point where you have to call something, or someone will get hurt.

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Timbaland

I think Ford is probable for Friday, as for Garbo no idea. I was there at this game, it was a great game, we just ended up on the wrong end. Good game back for Bosh, even though Derrick Martin tossed up the airball and took that terrible last shot, we wouldn't have even been close without him.

It woulda been so sweet to beat the Suns, but hopefully we can get healthy and get on a roll. We look about ready to.

ballocks

i was disappointed with the way we began the game. we didn't look ready, whatever that word means. jose calderon didn't look like jose calderon (i'm not even talking about the numerous times he got blocked on the "calderon layup" in the first q), i'm talking more about the first 2 or 3 minutes where he looked to be asleep all over the floor. it didn't 'look' like him.

it wasn't just jose, either. i thought rasho was dreadful on the very first defensive set of the game, having to foul stat underneath after falling tamely to a weak p&r outside. i thought it set the stage for the rest of the game, and i think it was too easily forgotten.

these players both turned it around by the end of the quarter, but i didn't like how they fell into the trap established characteristic of this team by players like tj, parker... and even bosh at times.

that said, bosh was excellent last night. i loved his game from the first minute. i loved his leadership down the stretch as well. i was totally surprised. it took him about 0 minutes to get re-acquainted with everything. i thought he asserted himself as the best player on the floor many times, maybe even throughout the entire game, and that's saying quite a bit given the talent that rests on the phoenix roster.

two players who have finally fallen out of favour with me (and i hate that they have) are garbajosa and, again last night, parker. i want that to change so bad, but the credit they get comes a little undeserved (imo) considering it often comes at the expense of their teammates. morris peterson, for one, is flying again (imo) and he is getting raped discriminately by the reputations that somehow precede these two european summer adds (garbo and park). i don't know what's going on there- but credit to him for playing through it.

unless someone could provide an argument for me as to why these two players lie ahead of peterson in both perception and the rotation, i'll really start to wonder. i'm not surprised that it's been hard for even the media to spot- players who've been around as long as peterson are easy to take for granted- but it's getting harder for me to tolerate, anyway. this time of year is as important to our final record as the stretch run will be, and i fail to figure why we treat it any differently.

regardless, it was a good game for the most part (remember, darrick martin is the third pg here) but i wanted to win this one pretty bad. and we lost.

peace

speedythief

^ I'm surprised you didn't like the way Parker played. He was reason number one that the Suns had so many turnovers. He was playing passing lanes about as well as any Raptor before him last night, and one of the main reasons Suns players under 6'9" shot about 37%.

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