Toronto Raptors Vs. The Handsomest man in the NBA and his T'Wolves

So the Raptors barely pull out a win against the second worse team in the league. This doesn't bode well for them seeing as how they're about to take on some of the top talent in the association. I am hoping they can build on this though and use it to increase their level of play to another standard that can allow them to challenge. That being said, this game against the Wolves was one of the uglier games I've ever had the misfortune of watching. I can't say it was the ugliest since I was at the ACC to witness their predictable,(I predicted it anyways), ass whooping that was handed to them by OKC on their own home court. Seriously, people were leaving by half time. Some people left before half time, and me? Well it's the first time I've ever left a Raptor game early. And that's saying something cause I usually stay right till the end but this was really just too brutal to watch. It's like watching something get skinned alive. It's just not pretty.

So last night they took on the NBA's most handsome man and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Al Jefferson of course is who I am talking about and if you know who I am talking about then I wouldn't need to tell you I am being sarcastic. The poor bastard looks like a foot with a body attached. Good thing for him he's a hell of a basketball player. Al Jefferson is the real deal and is a post offense machine. He's got more moves than a jelly roll and is about as hardworking and hardnosed as every Raptor fan wishes Bargnani was. He made Chris Bosh look like a pylon early on. I know Bosh isn't the best post defender but he's not too shabby. Al made him look like a rookie on his first week in the NBA. Too bad for him his teammates don't give him the ball every single possession. I have a feeling they'd be a lot better off if they just ran ISO for him all game long.

This game was so ugly I was almost worried it would start giving fans at the ACC leprosy. It was like watching a dog try to eat a pork chop that's been stapled to its own head. Both teams were under 40% by half time. I thought I was back watching an elementary school game. They were serving up more turnovers than the Pillsbury Doughboy. They really couldn't throw it in the ocean if they were knee deep in shark crap.

Shit you might have noticed... AGAIN.

• Jose Calderon really is a turnstile. I was watching him play D, and I said to my gf... watch him. Watch how easily his man is about to go around him. Right on queue the jerk lets his man blow right by him. I think there's something wrong with this guy. His defense wasn't this bad when he first joined the team. He needs to stay the heck away from the Spanish National team and get some rest and treatment cause he's killing us on the other end. Bring Jack back as the starter. If you wanna sit anyone, you sit Turk. 

• Jack is like Andy from Shawshank Redemption. He's been wrongfully put in the doghouse and Jose and Turk roam around free to play their shitty brand of defense. Jarrett has been showing up when he's called upon and so far he's made the decision look silly.

• Does Chris Bosh spray his hands with Pam before every game cause he's got a case of butterfingers worse than Bart Simpson. He should try some of that chalk that KG and Lebron uses. He turns the ball over sooooooooo friggin much!!

• Thank goodness Minni sucks. Outside of Big Al and Brother Love, they are short on talent and even shorter on execution. Jonny Flynn and Corey Brewer have been busts so far in my opinion but they're still young. Or maybe instead of saying Minni sucks, I should say they suck just a bit less than the Raps at the moment. 

• You CAN'T start Amir Johnson. There's been a lot of suggestion about this move but Barg's confidence is as frail as Glass Joe. Not only that but he's your best centre like it or not. Amir is suited for a bench role because his offense is limited to that one move he does well. The hook when he can get it off against secondary units. Bargs creates way too much space on the floor due to his shooting. It's too much of a benefit to Chris to ignore. Pulling Bargs and putting in Amir would be a typical knee-jerk reaction. Pulling Turk would be a jerk-pull reaction. 

The Rant
In response to all of those negative things said lately about Andrea and him saying he's been lazy. All I can say is that he might be lazy, he might be a shitty rebounder but at least he's a player which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for Hedo who night after night is a walking, talking, smelly piece of turd who barely scores, plays worse defense than Bargnani, commits stupid fouls on both ends of the floor, sometimes to compensate for his shitty defense, and grins, smirks, and jokes around with the opposition about it. Andrea has at least admitted he's bad. How many athletes in the world would do that? Hopefully he takes the next logical step and stop himself from being so dumbass lazy. Oh, and did you hear his response to Jack Armstrong's question? It was hilarious. Jack asked him what his focus was on this game in response to his poor showing the game before. He replied, "Nothing". He focused on nothing? LOL!! He said he has to let his teammates pull the reigns sometimes and he just played his game. I seriously doubt Andrea started the NJ game thinking that he should tone it down a bit and give his teammates a chance to score more.

I am sorry to sound like a broken record but it just continues to be the story of this season. Bargnani with all his shitty D is at least averaging 17 ppg and is the blocks leader on the team. At the very least he's at least pulling some weight. I dunno if I have hated an athlete who was on one of my favorite sports teams more than I hate Hedo. He's like poison to his team. His footwork on defense is worse than Jason Kapono's. It's like trying to watch a horse shuffle form side to side as fast as it could.He did play well in the final quarter of this match but like I've said before. You don't pay a man $10m to average 12ppg.  That defense he played on the last shot of the game by the T'wolves was the best, bar none, BEST DEFENSE I have ever seen that bastard play. If he played like that for 50% of his time on D, we'd probably have a few more W's. Hopefully he's gotten sick of being a joke, a laughing stock, and the object of everyone's ridicule. Hopefully he's waken up a bit.