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What has happened to Chris Bosh and the Toronto Raptors? The Toronto Raptors started out better than anyone’s reasonable expectations this season. The team faced a difficult opening schedule, but started 5-5 and scored an average 106.9 points. Chris Bosh was a big part of this success, averaging an impressive 27.7 points per game, taking 17 shots, and shooting 50 percent from the field. But, since then, life hasn’t been so easy for ...

On Friday night in Beantown during the Raptors TV pregame show, Raptors TV analyst and color commentator Jack Armstrong asks Andrea Bargnani what can only be described as a telling question. Jack asks, “Andrea, What are you going to do to help Chris Bosh?” Jack Armstrong is a Raptors employee. He never, ever says anything that could possibility get himself into trouble.  It would not be unfair to ascribe Armstrong as a ...

On the road, losing with the Raptors. Their road record is now 2-7. To be fair to Toronto, the NBA handed them a very tough opening road schedule against eight Western Conference clubs to start the season. And to be fair, the Raptors have been very good at home in the ACC. Plus, no one could realistically be disappointed ahead of time if they knew the Raptors would lose games to Western ...

This week the Toronto Raptors will have their first real chance at back-to-back wins in this young NBA season. Tuesday night the Raptors face the 5-7 Indiana Pacers at the ACC.á Then on Wednesday its off to the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC to face the 5-9 Bobcats. To open the season, sporting betting blogs were projecting the Bobcats and the Pacers to finish 11th and 12th respectively. áToronto was ...

Before this season started, it was widely assumed that offense would not be a concern for the Toronto Raptors.á But something has happened recently. In three of the past seven games, the Raptors have failed to break the century mark. And in two of the last three, they only managed 91 and 96 points in loses to Utah and Orlando, respectively. In the preseason, Jay Triano virtually boasted that the team ...

The Toronto Raptors enjoyed a hard-fought victory on Friday night, 120-113 over Miami. Most importantly, they defeated yet another direct competitor for a playoff position in April and have now earned victories against Detroit, Chicago, and Miami at the ACC. Also important was the breakout fourth-quarter scoring by Jarrett Jack, who has struggled all season to put the ball in the hole with any regularity. The happiest person appeared to be Jay Triano, ...

At the 10-game mark, the offseason rust should have finally disappeared from our favorite NBA players and teams should have started to ôgel.öá Individual statistics might still be skewed by some strange early season games but results should be starting to average out. ItÆs time for an early review of how the RaptorsÆ players have rounded into form. á Jose Calderon As each game passes, Calderon has been regaining that near all-star form of ...

The reason for Quincy Douby's early release has now become clear, the Toronto Raptors have re-acquired forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu off waivers from the Houston Rockets.á Raptors.com Kudos going out to Grange of the Globe and Mail for suggesting this deal was in the works. Pops Mensah-Bonsu was a Toronto Raptors' free agent who got lost in Bryan Colangelo's mad summer of ground breaking deals.á Pops was quoted on a number of occasions ...

Five and Five, a Good Start The ten game mark of the season is good place to stand back and take a look at how the rebuilt Raptors have done so far, and reflect on what could have been and whatÆs next. The short answer is found on ESPNÆs John Hollinger's team statistics. The Raptors are first in the NBA for Offensive Efficiency, scoring 113 points per 100 possessions. But the Raptors ...

Every season in the NBA a new crop of bench warmers joins the world of the under-worked and grossly over-paid! The dressed but will never play guys lost in their coachÆs doghouse and the suit styling millionaires the coach wonÆt even risk getting into the game by accident. Many of these (un)lucky employees of NBA teams have very familiar names and some might even surprise at just how far they ...