Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Comeback Win vs. CSKA Moscow

NBA.com Recap

Player of the game:
Chris Bosh - 24 points (7-16FG, 10-11FT), 10 rebounds, 2 steals. The Raptors were playing pretty poorly as a whole (anyone noticing a trend when it comes to the Raptors and Euroleague teams?) and we needed CB4 to step up and carry us for the game. As usual, he responded in a big way.

Notables:
Andrea Bargnani - 11 points, 6 rebounds, 3 blocks, 2 fouls(!). Well, a step in the right direction. Three blocks and six rebounds are good numbers, and he kept his fouls down again while actually being productive - too often he worries about fouls and forgets to hit the boards, or hits the boards and forgets to worry about fouls.
Jose Calderon - 14 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds. Despite an uncharacteristic 4 turnovers, Jose turned in a solid game at point. He's pretty much a lock for at least 6 dimes a game, and 14 points is average production for him. Despite an average game by his standards, he was one of the best for the Raptors tonight.
Jermaine O'Neal - 11 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, 2 blocks. Decent statline, but certainly the Raptors need him to hit the boards much harder to take some of the load off Bosh (after all, that's what he was brought in to do). 11 points isn't too bad providing he can help out in other areas, however.
Full box score

Stat of the game:
CSKA Moscow committed 34 fouls to the Raptors' 22, letting the Raptors shoot 34 free throws (making just 24, which may be cause for concern) to CSKA's 17 (making 14). In a game like this, made free throws could have made this one much less of a nail-biter for the Raps.

2 comments:

Mintz... said...

Ukik still didn't get his minutes... (although Solomon didn't either...) what's the deal? was this just cuz Mitchell wanted to win so he left Calderon in? I wanna see the young Serbian play... LET HIM PLAY SMITCH, LET HIM PLAY

Mintz... said...

Croatian***

OOPS.
my apologies.