The injury riddled Nets are in town to face the Toronto Raptors @ the ACC @ 7:00 tonight with Deron Williams who missed a game with sore ribs and will be back to take all the Nets shots tonight as he takes 93 shots of 476 shots the Nets have shoot in the 6 game (19.5%) and 15.5 shots a game scoring 17.3 points a game with 6 assists compared to 4.3 turnovers a game and is shooting 33.3% from the floor but is getting to the line with 32 shots and making 27 of them. Former Raptors and former Kim Kardashian Kris Humphries (12.4p/g) and is the main big guy has been out two games with shoulder injury and is day-to-day and Brock Lopez who killed the Raptors in London, England last season is out indefinitely with a foot injury.
The New Jersey Nets are 1 - 6 this season and is scoring very little 83.1 (38.7%) points a game and give up a lot of points to opponents given up 97.7 (47%) and once again it is an another 3-ball team with 28.5% of their shots from beyond the arc and is shooting 28% and over 22 shots a game. The Nets second top scorer is rookie guard MarShon Brooks who has basically come out of nowhere to put up 14.1 points and is shooting 45.8% from the floor but will not play tonight which means that the Nets all about the guard play as even Sundiata Gaines who played 6 games with the Raptors and has spent a lot of time in the D-league and is putting up 9.1 p/g and the three guards are taken 42.7% of the Nets shoots this season. If the Nets do not have Ex-Mr. Karashian who has 10 boards a game and the next closest is Damion James who has been taken down 4.7 boards a game will have trouble protecting the glass.
The Raptors will need to continue to play their game and not play down to their opponents and if the Raptors can get a big lead playing their game it will be up to Dwayne Casey to give the big guys like Andrea, DeMar, and Jose extra when possible as they are now going to be playing 7 games in 9 nights so there will be chances to rest players and it will be up to guys like Ed Davis and James Johnson need to pick up their game and support the main cast. I am scary to think of Barbosa playing point or shooting guard for long stretches of time because the ball stops moving when he gets on the floor as puts up a ton of shots in the 21.5 minutes a game he plays and he takes 9 shots from the floor and 3 shots from the line and 1.5 assists compared to 2 turnovers is not the greatest. If Anthony Carter can play more than 10 minutes a game and be solid as a rock at the point will be very important and if Gary Forbes can play 5-10 minutes a game will be a good sign. The Raptors who have the best defensively with in the paint shooting and are second behind Superman and his friends in Walt Disney World needs to continue in the next 9 days.
Going to be a tough road
Tom Mehegan
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