Naughty by Nature was amazing but the Raps sucked big time

The Naughty by Nature concert was amazing and they did a three song set that started with OPP, then uptown anthem and finished with Hip Hop Hooray and that was the best part of the night and the crowd loved it and worst part was that the second half happened and it was not good.

The Raptors seem to be in the NBA because they need an opponent that the Wizards can beat (two wins this season) and so that the Bobcats do not match the biggest losing streak in NBA as they won their first game in their last 17 games. The Raptors got 18 of their 45 points from DeMar DeRozan while James Johnson had 10 points in the first half and Jose Calderon had 8 points but were down 2 points at halftime 47-45 with Reggie Williams who had 16 points and Corey Maggette had 9 points while they moved the ball way better than the Raptors as they had 13 assists compared to the Raps 6 in the first half.

In the second half the Raptors shot longer jumpers and threes as they took 16 from beyond the arc and made only two of them while the D was not very good as the Bobcats shoot 50% from the floor and the Raps did not get inside enough even though they took 28 free throws and made 19 (68% and that's is very low) and cleaned up some misses and put them back but not enough. The Bobcats in the second half did take the body and put a lot of fouls on the Raptors and helped the Cats to put up 30 points in the fourth quarter and they ended up having Reggie Williams had 22 points, Cory Maggette had 16 points, D.J. Augustin had a double-double with 11 points and 10 assists, and Bismack Biyombo was a monster on the boards with 13 boards.

The Raptors did not get very much offensively in the second half and DeRozan got an offensive foul and he was hit hard just the before the half way through the third quarter and went down and covered his face and they had to call a timeout and he was out a long time and came back at the 8:40 point of the fourth and ended with 24 points and the best part of his game was 8 of 12 from the line. Barbosa had 16 points but only 1 assist in the game compared to 14 shots he took while Amir had 15 boards to go with 6 points while James had 14 points and 8 boards and Calderon had 14 points and 8 assists. Ed Davis had 10 boards but the surprise of the game was that after Arron Gray had 5 boards in the first quarter and then did not return until the beginning of the second half and ended with 7 boards in only 13 minutes and Jamaal did not play in the game and he should of played and could of done good work and could of helped the team win over the Bobcats.

Casey has his boyz til Wednesday and I would not want to be those boyz this next week

Tom Mehegan