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March 10, 2007

Raptors vs. Sonics Preview

JayJay wrote this today:

It really feels like the Raptors haven’t played in a week. Not having a Friday night game was like going through rehab…had the shakes man, the shakes!

So I made a few comments the other day on the Sonics and how I don’t think this team is really a last place team, simply because they have been hit pretty hard with the injury bug and they have also lost a lot of close games. They also have Ray Allen, who can go off at any time and has what has to be one of the sweetest strokes in the game (although he has had a few cold games…yikes).

The Sonics were beaten by the Celtics last night, yes, the Celtics, so maybe they really are a last place team. I mean, it’s bad enough when you lose to the Celtics, but when you blow a 16 point lead against the Celtics, some alarms have to be going off. Some SERIOUS alarms need to go off when you blow a 16 point lead and then LOSE by 15. That’s where GMs start thinking, “Hey, maybe I need to just blow this whole thing up.”

Anyway, this kind of goes back to what I was saying in my earlier comments. When the Sonics get down, they will not come back. They don’t have the offense this season and I think the mental aspect of the game is getting to them. At the same time, the Raptors have to make sure that they don’t take the Sonics lightly, because the Sonics have to go into Detroit on Wednesday, so they are probably thinking that they are going to lose that one, so they need to get the one in Toronto. I guarantee they got a serious talking to after the Celtics game, so they should be fired up.

The key for the Raptors? Ball movement and early scoring. If they are able to get on the board early and often and actually make a few defensive stops, they should be able to take care of business against the Sonics. But the early scoring will be the key.

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One Response to “Raptors vs. Sonics Preview”

  1. TTFD Says:
    March 11th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

    So TJ has a great game, Raps win a super tight game…Ray Allen, wow that’s all I can say other than the Raps have to get tougher on the boards, it hurts them a lot in tighter games and will haunt them once the playoffs start….Sam should just run hours of boxing out drills b/c they HAVE to address this deficiency in their game asap.