Toronto Loses

I guess playoff experience, veteran savvy, etc. really all do count for something. I still think Toronto's the better team, though obviously losing home court doesn't help the cause very much. The idea of Canadians being mean and booing Vince Carter so viciously is kind of comical. As a Canada-file and opponent of things like whining your way off teams, I'm rooting for the Raptors, who also have the best center court logo in the league.

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Comments

Canada-file? You do light office work for the neighbors to the north?

Posted by: Rob on April 21, 2007 03:10 PM

Told you all!

Posted by: sub for Al on April 21, 2007 03:26 PM

Well if Juan only gets five shots you are not even going to win under Canadian rules.

Posted by: Felipe on April 21, 2007 03:28 PM

This _has_ to be a joke. Matt intentionally makes spelling mistakes to taunt us.

Posted by: Gabriel on April 21, 2007 03:37 PM

It's because you don't follow hockey that you don't think Canadians, like that racist Sean Avery, can be mean.

Posted by: Delicious pundit on April 21, 2007 03:44 PM

They are pretty mean to the seals too I understand

Posted by: Felipe on April 21, 2007 03:56 PM

I usually assume, with playoff caliber teams, at the middle 1st rnd seedings or the later rounds, that each team will win a game on the road. I don't really know if this has a basis in fact or history.

Another way to put this is that it is very tough to beat a team three games in consecutively.

Posted by: bob mcmanus on April 21, 2007 04:42 PM

Here's that logo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Raptors_0607.JPG

Pretty neat.

Posted by: Martin on April 21, 2007 05:30 PM

Does yelling Kazaam when Shaq is at the free throw line make me mean?

Posted by: spartikus on April 21, 2007 06:35 PM

Dude. For folks who see blog titles in their RSS readers and Tivo the games, please don't include game results in your blog titles. Thank you.

Posted by: Petey on April 21, 2007 06:49 PM

sub for me: Told you all!

Thanks! Dang parents and inlaws coming over to see the grandchild prevented me from seeing the game live (thank God for TiVo).

Raps had a nice comeback in the 4th Q but just didn't have enought to get over the hump. I'm not sure it is veteran savvy as much as that Bosh isn't good enough to take over the game yet. He did have a couple of nice baskets, but the Nets buckled down and Mikki Moore caused him to take a bad shot. Importantly, they don't have a great secondary scorer to go to when Bosh is getting defended well - Parker and Calderon are OK but not to the level of a Richard Jefferson. And TJ Ford didn't even play down the stretch. (Was this a mistake? Calderon was playing well, but still).

Additionally, I think the Raps REALLY miss Garbajosa. He's their garbageman - someone who will dive for loose balls, etc. They had to play Humphries a lot and he is just BAD.

Posted by: Al on April 21, 2007 06:57 PM

"Additionally, I think the Raps REALLY miss Garbajosa."

Yup.

Posted by: Petey on April 21, 2007 07:08 PM

"I still think Toronto's the better team"

I thought this was the easiest first round series to bet, in the other direction.

Posted by: Petey on April 21, 2007 07:16 PM

I've seen lots of basic english mistakes here, but "canada-file" takes the cake. Apparently Matt got into Harvard the same way GWB got in.

Posted by: terry on April 22, 2007 12:45 AM

Kidd really is quite the badass. He was Nash before Nash was 100% white.

He makes the Nets a tough out no matter who they are playing, not just the cleary better Raptors.

Posted by: MP on April 22, 2007 01:28 AM

Matt caught the misspelling bug at the Harvard Independent. That paper infected its writers with typos, grammatical errors, and malapropisms. Basically, Matt has orthographic herpes. I got out relatively unscathed, but only because I typed my columns with finger condoms on.

Posted by: Gregorio on April 22, 2007 06:52 AM

The Leafs didn't make the play-offs.

Posted by: Rula Lenska on April 22, 2007 01:13 PM

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