14 games into the season the Raptors are .500, and are likely to be 5 games under .500 by December 7th (their next 5 games are against Atl, LAL, DNV, UTH, PTB). Suffice to say that this is probably not where many, if not all of us were hoping/expecting the Raps to be.
What's going wrong? Well, its not the O'Neal trade, I think that's worked out unbelievably well. CB4 has been playing absolutely out of his mind, and I think a good amount of that credit has to go to JO who has freed Bosh up on the defensive end and given him space to do what he does best.
You also can't blame Bargnani. He's become a legit 3rd scorer, is a tough match-up the same way that Dirk is, and is playing some pretty reasonable defence.
Jose? Well, he's turning the ball over a little more (but, really, he's playing more too), he's had a couple of bad shooting nights, but by and large he's doing exactly what he was doing so well last year.
So, if your 3 best players are playing somewhere between very well and outstanding... shouldn't the Raps be having a good season?
I'm not sure I need to say it....
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Yeah slow starts are a coach killer.
Should've beaten the Nets etc etc.
I think you can look at the backcourt. Honestly, even with Joe-say dishing up almost 10 assists per game, they have no athletes on the perimeter so every game they get broken down on defense. This forces the interior to scramble to help out.
It doesn't help that Moon is terrible and plays scared, Kapano travels all the time and AP is struggling.
oh yeah.. and Mitchell is a terrible coach.
Well, here's the thing. If I had a team with a bunch of terrible athletes wouldn't you try and put them in situations where they wouldn't get burned (ie. especially against the Sixers, or other teams who can't shoot the ball) why wouldn't you TRY playing zone....
because that makes sense????
... right.
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