Sunday, February 24, 2002

Back in Waterloo. Gotta start on the homework train tomorrow when I get up. One full week of doing absolutely nothing and now, it's gone too far. Gotta get back into the swing of things. I watched Wag the Dog tonight with the roommates. It was a pretty good movie. Pretty interesting story actually. I don't wanna give away too much in case you guys wanna see it but it is quite an interesting outlook on politics and the media.

I've been thinking about what ails the Raptors and after sitting through that debacle last night, here's what I've come up with. They are completely lacking intensity and it is actually quite scary the way they are looking. It's in their psyche that they can't win without Vince. They missed about 10 free throws. Missed 3 EASY dunks. Never once did they have an And 1 situation cause they couldn't finish when they got hacked. They got beat by Scoreless Williamson, Barry and some other no good Eurpean Centre. Stackhouse was on the bench for most of the game so he didn't do much of anything. Clifford Robinson lit up Keon for about 12 jumpshots...I don't think that Keon got the point and never once got out there to stop a jump shot. Lenny's substitions were pretty garbage once again too. Left JYD on the bench for long stretches when we could have used his defensive intensity. Childs once again made about 3 or 4 bonehead passes. Curry thought he was Nash or Kidd after one nice alley-oop pass to MoPete. After that, he made about 3 turnovers. It was nasty. Curry was guarding Stackhouse for about 3 posessions where he got absolutely schooled.

Overall, disgusting.

no heart
no intensity
no finish

Hopefully something changes soon cause they definitely have the talent to compete in their conference and this league. They've got the superstar. They've got the support and at times this season, we have seen flashes of brilliance. However, what is lacking is consistency.

Time for bed. Until next time...

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