speedythief

........7:00 EST, The Score

Game 32 -- 3 January 2006 Suns (22-8) @ Raptors (13-18) The Phoenix Suns won in Chicago last night on a Leo Barbosa triple with less than two ticks left. On Wednesday they head over to the Air Canada Centre to face the Toronto Raptors, a team that has lost two in a row but remains in first place in the Atlantic Division. The two teams faced off a few weeks ago in Phoenix with the Suns easily winning 115-98. The Raptors were without Chris Bosh in that game, having collided knees with Ben Wallace earlier that week. Bosh is expected to return to action on Wednesday and with Jorge Garbajosa doubtful for the game with a strain, the Raptors will need every minute Bosh can give them. Point guard TJ Ford is also expected to play but will nonetheless be a game-time decision. Expect fanfare as Canadian hero Steve Nash visits Toronto for the only time this season. The game will be broadcast on The Score and the Fan590.com at 7:00 PM, with garbage time starting roughly twenty minutes later.

Mr_B

gonna get murdered by at least 15

madman

good to see bosh back but i doubt it will be a sucessful return

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I'm sure it won't matter all that much but it's still nice to have Phoenix playing from behind against the Bulls on the first game of this back to back.

If TJ and Bosh come back strong I guess we've got a shot.

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Knick_Killer31

i can see the raps winnin this game. but it probably wont happen.

OT: We should start to do Guess the Score for raptors games like the pacers forum

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Turkish Delight

I think it'll be closer than you think. Suns just played an intense game tonight, and Raptors have had a long rest.

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Roland Garros

is Garbo out of the next suns´game?

Who-C

Can someone explain why Joey Graham still starts?

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We might have a chance in this one. Let's just hope that the Suns are dead tired and have an off night after playing the Bulls last night. With Bosh coming back and all that, we gotta come out with intensity, something we lacked in the game against Memphis which resulted in us being blown out in the 1st Q. Looking forward to this game...

LET'S GO RAPTORS!

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JS03

Ford and Garbo aren't playing tonight.
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/167483

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speedythief

Bosh must've been doing some neck work. Guy has a thin head but his neck is almost as broad as his head now.

Actually its probably just a funny angle to take the picture at but I thought it was worth sharing.

ballocks

i guess chris' return is good news but the bad news about ford and garbajosa really worries me. maybe it worries me more about garbajosa than ford (because tj took an awful hit from duhon against chicago- i don't 'blame' him for being hurt) but the fact that he's out with a calf injury is something i can't help but be cynical of. personally, i don't know of a single person who's suffered a calf injury so severe that they couldn't play basketball, so i don't really understand garbo's issue here. maybe he's the exception, maybe he does have something rare, i don't know, but i have no idea what it could be. this is a calf. is the diagnosis off the mark? maybe, but until they tell me otherwise, i'll have to trust that it's his calf that's bothering him. and i'll have to scratch my head: you really can't play through it?

another thing i don't want to be forgotten is the fact that we're finally over the toughest stretch- i mean, we've been complaining about the first two months of the season for the last four months, we've been talking about the january break endlessly, and now it's finally here. i don't want it to be forgotten. i like how chris and sam have already chosen to say it publicly- that the raptors need to perform in order to take advantage of this schedule because talking about it does nothing on its own- but i'll be waiting to see those results. we often talk a big game and follow it up with little substance, and i now want to see that change.

this game in particular is crucial, i think. if we had been in phoenix's position, we'd be all over the schedule-maker today ("it's not fair, we're on the east coast, playing a back-to-back during the holiday season, and they've been sitting around twiddling their thumbs for four days?"), but we're not- instead, we're in our privileged position. we're at home. well rested (except for garbojosa, whose calf flared up during new year's festivities). we're playing a team that beat us earlier in the year, so we need to redeem ourselves in that sense. the boss'll be especially close tonight given his ties to phoenix, so our (healthy) players would be best served to hit the floor running.

etc.

it would have been good to have a full collection of players for tonight's game because i do see it as an important affair, but you can't win 'em all. anybody who doesn't feel we can (should) beat this team tonight (regardless or who is and isn't active) should probably begin to consider why they feel that way. this is a game we need, this is a game we should win- or at least not lose decisively.

this is not david and goliath. this is two professional basketball teams playing one game on one night.

peace

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