The Weak vs The Weaker

You know you don't have a life when on a Friday night you're watching a game between the 14th placed Toronto Raptors against the 15th placed Washington Wizards (The two teams are so bad that ESPN 2 dropped the game from their programming quite a while back). I must admit I don't have a life; however, I'm also a big Raptors fan that has only missed one game this year. I've always enjoyed watching the games between this to teams......let's just say crazy things happen. Anybody remember that hail marry buzzer by Morris Peterson or Parker's buzzer beater?

So before I start my regular blogging, I want to talk about how the Wizards went from being a playoff team into becoming the worst team in the east.

Reason Numero Uno: Fragile Agent Zero- After signing a 6 year 111 million dollar year, Arenas needed a third surgery meaning that he would be missing another season. As much as I hate this guy and his blog, he did put up 29 points and 6 assists only 3 seasons ago when he was healthy.

Reason Numero Dos: Firing Eddie Jordan: Even though the Wizards started with a 1-10 record it was still a pretty foolish decision to fire him so quickly. After being with the team for four years and making the playoffs for three seasons while handling an incredible amount of injuries the team suffered, they should have made a statue of Eddie outside the stadium instead of firing him. Ed Tapscott wasn't the answer to this team that's for sure.

Reason Numero Tres: Not Resinging Roger Mason- With Arenas being injured in the 2007-2008 season Roger Mason ,at the time an NBA scrub, got to more playing time an had a breakthrough season. The Wizards decided not to resign him and so the San Antonio Spurs signed him. The result was the Spurs got a good back up player that averages 11 points and 2 assists per game while the Wizards are left with scrubs like Dominic Mcguire and Juan Dixon as their starting shooting guards.

Now even with all the flaws this team have they still managed to beat the Raptors at home. Quite sad if you ask me.

Kapono! OH NO! OH YES!
Throughout this season I have cringed each time that Jay Triano decided to bring out Kapono from the bench. Most nights it resulted in Kapono coming in getting a couple of travels called on him, a missed layup and on the odd night a wide open three pointer in a transition play. The thing about Kapono is that he's an extremely streaky shooter, don't get me wrong he has an extremely fast shot. Watch his episode of Sports Science if you don't beleive me. Anyhow when Kapono gets hot he gets hot and this was one of those nights. 6 of 9 from being the arc....two of those were clutch. If he was only somewhat consistent each night.

Caron Butler For the Win! Caron Butler was quite in the first half but then was flaming hot in the second half. The Raptors were not playing any defence down the lane and so letting him get easy points. Even after the Raptors did make a couple of defensive stops to get the game tied up, Caron silenced the crowd of about 18,000 with a buzzer beater. Marion played terrible defence of that play.
Raptors.com Fail!

Whoever is running the Raptors website wrote "Gerald Butler hit the game winning buzzer beater Friday night". I know that Caron Butler is under rated but this is just pathetic. Maybe the guy writing it was thinking about the actor Gerald Butler. It's been 4 hours since the game ended and it still hasn't been fixed.



Do the Alvin Boogie
There was a Alvin Williams sighting at the ACC. He chatted with Matt and Jack for a while and seemed to be visiting some old friends in Hogtown. Gotta love Alvin Williams. That game winner against New York will never be forgotten. Hope he can get a gig as an assistant coach of the Raptors. Wouldn't mind seeing Darrick Martin too.

Next game against the 76ers. The Raptors were them a year ago.....the 6th seed going into the playoffs. Watching tv and Mr.T is in an infomercial......I better hit the sack.