Tip-In: On The Bound

Just got home and watching the tape right now . . . what a great win. I am quite surprised with the effort (although they basically played even for 2.5 quarters before doing anything), but this is a big win.

So . . . one more 15 pt. game for Joey on WED or three in a row with 4pts. maximum? He is the most frustrating player in any sport I've ever had to watch.

Great article as always.
Wow! This is not the team from years past that would be in a funk for 2 to 3 games after a loss like Sunday's.
Parker is quickly becoming the teams best defender in Raptors history at the guard position. If it isn't him, then who? Childs? A. Williams? Peterson...?
Tell me i'm wrong.

Anyways, impressive win.
Bosh was once again awesome.

I was fortunate enough to see this game. I've got a feeling that some of us have taken Chris Bosh for granted. With just a few other players to keep an opposing team honest, Bosh seems pretty unstoppable. He's an incredibly efficient scorer. Now, he has his flaws, but Mitchell definitely husbands his output. Bosh easily could have gone for 40+ yesterday.

Professional win. The upcoming homestand will tell us exactly how serious this team is about making some noise this year.

p.s. Parker is looking to be an incredibly key component of this team's success.

With the play of mo pete who do u think he's goin to go to with all these trade rumours or do u think he's a nice fit where he is.Some games he's been good but it's not the same peterson from last year.

So I’m at work and I’m bored off my face. I was staring at the Raps impressive boxscore from yesterday’s contest and I talked myself into doing some analysis. This point guard tandem is working out a treat and I’ve been wondering how they stack up against the elite point guards, and the elite team’s point guards across the league. So I ran Ford and Calderon’s combined stats averaged across 48 minutes against Phoenix’s PG duo (Nash & Barbosa), Utah’s (Williams & Fisher), New Jersey’s (Kidd & Williams), San Antonio’s (Parker & Udrih) and Dallas’ trio (Terry, Harris, Johnson) and also Nash’s, Williams’, Paul’s, Terry’s, Parker’s., Davis’s and Billups’s alone per 48 minutes. (Note, didn’t do Kidd’s or Arenas' on their own, cause their stats blow all the averages off kilt. Kidd is averaging like 11 boards a game per 48 mins).

Here’s what I found:

Per 48 mins – TJ & Jose combined have to rank as one of the best PG’s in the league. They were above average in FG%, assists, rebounds and steals. They were just 0.2 off the pace for Assists/Turnovers and less than 2 pts off the pace for point production. The only place they really lack is (rather obviously) 3pt shooting, and with Bosh’s new-found range and Bargnani, Parker and Peterson gunning away, we really don’t need them to serve this purpose.

I’ll be the first to admit I was no happy when we traded CV for Ford. Following the norm, you can’t teach size, but you also can’t teach quickness and it looks like BC’s gamble has paid off big time. Nice work!

What does all this mean? That I have way too much time on my hands, and that I’ve probably yet to discover NBAstats.com or some silly website of the sort that does all this work for you.

Also, took a look at the schedule coming up to the all-star break. Anyone else think we can be 26-26 come that weekend?

Sharpy: Best rap defender? Probably Doug Christie then A. Parker then Zan Tabak (kidding!)

Boredat: try 82games.com, I like the stats, but I think most elite teams have a true #1 PG which plays the majority of the minutes. Its still something I slightly worry about with TJ.

Aaron: If Joey Graham is frustrating, you should have watched Isiah Ryder at his prime, or this year try Rasheed Wallace, Troy Murphy, Mike Dunleavy, Correy Maggette, Tyson Chandler, Stephan Marbury, Steve Francis, AK-47 (probably the winner this year for most frustrating - man what a disapointment!)...

Can you believe the headlines in the media? "News Break: Toronto gets snow in January" Send in the army!

I was back and forth between an online streaming broadcast of the game on the Fan590 and ESPN real time game updates at the office yesterday- I would have loved to see this game live on TV. Needless to say, I am very pleased with the team's effort and resilient win from the Dallas gut-wrencher. This 5-game homestand will be the statement series. Let's do it boys. Make T.O. proud.

WOW.. not fully realizing how badly Andrei Kirilenko is playing this year, I checked his stats: 17 games in double digit points (16 has been his max) and 16 games in single digits.

He's avg: 9.1 points with 3.5 assists and 5 boards which is well under his career avg of over 15 ppg and 8 boards

Yeah AK47 has been more of a Supersoaker this year. He is the 4th best player on that team now.

Stillbored - I'm looking at the schedule till the end of Jan and I think Toronto can get to within a game of .500 at 22-23 which would mean they win four of their next six. Their first few games in Feb are winnable too so yes, totally possible to get to that 26-26 record or better. They just need to close out this month and take care of business.

PS - Looks like Mo's not going anywhere as Jaric is now a bigger target for the Pistons.