The refs were terrible in this one… they made charging calls against the raptors (specifically on bosh where he would catch and wouldn’t be given room to even turn) but would not make the call the other way (at the end of the 3rd with 1 sec left they called a blocking foul on johnson)… This was just a classic case of bad officiating, which really turned the game to Indy’s favour. I couldn’t understand why Jay Triano was just sitting the whole time.
Somebody also needs to tell Bosh to help out on defence. Too many times the guards are getting beat without enough help from the bigs. CB turned it up in fourth, but we need more.

Pacers play at a very high pace and Raptors are a poor transitional team. Raps need to learn to dictate the pace and not react to what their opponents are doing. If they can do that they’ll be a pretty solid squad.

3 points

-Jose should never see time against small quick point guards, Banks should have been in in the 3rd to stop the Indy PG dribble penetration. Hell, I might have played him the entire game because Jack was useless as well.

-Discipline. Bosh and Andrea are the only ones who should have been taking shots in the last 7 min of the game. This should be drilled into the heads of players like Weems, Beli, Jose and Jack. They have to get the ball to theses 2 guys and that should be their only thought. When you see Jose look off Andrea, who has a mismatch, and go and chuck up a contested shot one can only shake their head and ask why? Or a better idea, lets try to run plays for Amir instead of your first and second options, great play making Jose!

-Triano. Weem’s should have been pulled at the beginning of the third, he couldn’t keep track of his man and Indy was intentionally going at him. Banks should have seen floor time in the third. No time out in the third is inexcusable. Also, does he have any authority over this team? Smack some heads around Jay and demand the players play their roles, if they don’t, sit their ass down. Too much freelancing in the 4th, the ball should have gone to Bosh and Andrea every time.

That sound you hear is the sound of all of the praise and progress we’ve been looking at in this team vanishing.

To me, the turning point was in the second quarter when the Raptors and the Pacers both stopped scoring. If the Raptors had been able to get going first, they probably would have blown out Indiana. Instead, it was the Pacers that found their rhythm first and that was the game.

I was the most disappointed with Weems. He completely disappeared on offense and defense.

Nobody played well on defense and only a few players showed up on offense.

This game proves that the Raptors are a mediocre team. This is what these sort of teams do: inexplicably drop winnable games.

This makes tonight’s game an absolute must-win (not in terms of standings but in terms of team psyche). I hope that more of the team show up for tonight’s game.

This result was sadly predictable. The Raptors need to shake this one off and beat the Nets tonight.

If Jose is not 100% I would favour giving Banks the backup minutes and saving Jose for the next game.

The Raptors could have really used the win last night, but every team needs a wake-up call every now and then to keep them focused. Let’s hope the Raptors get pissed off about this one and take out their frustrations on New Jersey.