RaptorsHQ Lunchbox Links for December 22, 2011

A little self promotion, here, but you missed my latest trilogy…
http://www.wearingfilm.com/picketfence/2011/12/or-why-tanking-isnt-such-a-bad-thing/

“The Andrea Bargnani Award (Formerly the Darius Songaila Award)– This award goes to the player who has provided his team with the least overall production. I use Wins Produced to determine the winner here. (Minimum 500 minutes)

Andrea Bargnani led wire to wire, walking away with the award by a fairly wide margin. In terms of negative production we really haven’t seen anyone else on Bargnani’s level. As long as Dwayne Casey keeps him on the floor for 35 minutes a night, this is Bargnani’s award to lose for years to come."

Looking forward to another year of him sucking minutes away from Ed Davis!

http://blogs.thescore.com/raptorblog/2011/12/22/this-is-just-too-juicy-carlesimo-on-trianobargnani/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:thescore/raptorblog(RaptorBlog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

“After being told about an idea that would allow the Nets guards to crash the boards while the bigs made a dash up the floor, Carlesimo, who served as an assistant under Triano last season, had this to say, according to Abrams:

"That’s what I wanted to do with [Andrea] Bargnani last year, but [former Raptors coach Jay] Triano wouldn’t let me," Carlesimo says. "He said it was demeaning. At least our smalls had a chance of getting the rebound."

ouch

Jason Kidd got has many rebounds as an aging pg than Andrea did as our centre. Or about the same, which is pathetic. He also played with Chandler, Dirk, Matrix, Butler who are all aggressive rebounders in front of him.

Wow, I am even more upset. He belongs on a Don Nelson GS team. If Casey is going to give this franchise a new on court persona…..he has to go or it is all just lip service and how can we take Dwayne as credible? I understand we have to give it some time, but when we have and we are at the same point we are today, when is do we abandon ship?

I would trade Andrea for Lou Williams in a second.

the Results are in:

• More Bargnani bashing ….. < sigh > …. he only got 4 rebounds … yada yada yada …. even though we out-dueled them on the boards (17-11 Offensive & 31-27 defensively). He was also 6-12 at the start of the 4th Quarter – the point in time when the game was all but said and done. Actually, it was done way before that, but under the Chuck Swirsky rules, the 4th Quarter was the appropriate moment to "get out the salami & cheese". By the way … I kinda miss Chuck.

• We’re still assessing Bayless as a maybe Starting PG ….. maybe. Someone cherry-picked his plus/minus stat (+10 total), to show he’s doing the right things (ie. defense) – forgetting he had 5 assists (2 as a Starter) in 46 minutes of play, to go along with a .308 average.

• BC picked up some fill-in players …. Why aren’t they playing like Stars?

• Ed Davis is showing us a decent game (F/T% excepted). To those who say he should be playing more minutes (instead of Bargnani), is a debatable strategy. It’s somewhat reminiscent of Toronto style rookie development that throws kids to the fire – because that’s how one learns? IMO, playing him 32 minutes – assuming his body can handle the banging on a regular basis – is fraught with so much risk. Let the kid develop.

• Was it me, or did Raptors start off like crap without Jose?

• Alabi played 5 minutes – I can read the foreword in a book and get more insight.

• Demar is a punk – or so Tommy says

• According to MAS11 …. on Bargnani`s efficiency – "It’s the number one issue/contraversy this season. Really?"

• According to Celticslife, Raptor fans are a bunch of whiners – http://www.celticslife.com/2011/12/comments-from-other-side-raptors-1221.html"
  My favourite ….. "Tommy will most likely have passed on by the time we make the playoffs."

• And last but not least …… it`s pre-f*@king-season guys …. and girls.

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and it’s only 2 games, but Raptors were 3rd (overall) in fewest point allowed. That has to count as a little positive.

Unfortunately, we were last in points scored.
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so I am a little confused why everyone is is basing everything on two pre season games against the same team. If we played like Cleveland or something the score would have been higher and we would be saying wow there offense looks so good. Boston was the best in the league last year in allowing the least points allowed plus the flow of the game is a lot slower due to the pace. so since we did not score much that means we need to bring in new offensive weapons? wow and now the defense is better then offense? why don’t we wait for a few games at least to judge. same team, slow pace equals worst in points allowed and points scored…. its very simple, lets not read so much into stats

Ok, I can wait. But once we get going and the same issues surface my patience is a bit limited due to the past experiences I have had waiting for that strategy to work out.

What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. If we continue on the same path and nothing changes, then as fans, we start to feel like the train we are on is “Insane”