IBM Winning Strategies:

• Transition Defense
• No Guard Penetration
• Force GS to Defend

Good strategy, but not in this lifetime. All three winning strategies required the Raptors to do something they can’t, namely play a level of basketball that exceeds their ability. What are you going to do? I had ZERO expectations heading into this game, and if it wasn’t for that one guy out there who actually reads my notes, I would have been fast asleep by half time. These night games are killing me, I got nothing left after the PBP. The Raptors lulled the Warriors to sleep with some boring ass basketball, and clawed their way to a lead in the 4th. Alas, the sleeping lion woke up and sunk dagger after dagger to take the game.

1. Parker got 2 shots off in the 4th, with the second one coming with 1 second left in the game.
2. Even thought Hump had a decent game, I really hate him. He forces more crap shots than Moon. I really hate him.
3. TJ had a solid game. He took a few too many bad shots, but what are you going to do? He got the Raptors back into the game in the 2nd, and did all he could in the 4th, but would have been nice if he Parker and Bargnani with a couple more passes.
4. Uhm, wtf is Calderon? Seriously, I have no idea what happened to the guy. I hope he finds his form asap, this is getting brutal to watch.
5. Interesting, but check out the 4th quarter stats below. The Raptors starters were -84 for the game (all 5 starters were - something). The Warriors starters were +64 for the game (all 5 starters were + something). The Raptors bench was + 30 for the game (all of them were + something). The Warriors bench were -19 for the game (all of them were - something). Should have played the bench a few more minutes, except Hump, I hate that c*ck sucker.

1st Quarter:

• Parker curls off the low screen and lays it up under duress.
• Pietrus hits an open jumper at the top of the key, I want this guy in a Raptor uniform next season.
• Ellis blows by Parker for a layup.
• Moon jacks a jumper in transition…misses.
• Ellis grabs an offensive rebound between Rasho and Bargnani, and gets fouled laying it up.
• Biedrins swats Moon into the first row.
• Calderon jacks a deep trey as the shot clock expires, he misses, but it isn’t his fault.
• Calderon rolls off Rashos screen and stops the bleeding.
• Pietrus answers with a long jumper right back the other way.
• Biedrins blocks Rasho’s shot, sending Ellis on the break, and a layup.
• Moon blocks Davis’s drive.
• Pietrus draws a charge on Parker.
• Biedrins curls towards the rim, gets a pass from Davis, and lays it up.
• Davis blocks Rasho’s shot, and lays it up on the break, Raptors timeout.
• Pietrus crowns Moon with a dunk.
• Moon answers with a trey off the swing pass from Calderon.
• Calderon stiks a J from inside the arc.
• Davis drops a pass off to Biedrins in the lane, he gets fouled and hits boths.
• Biedrins has a damn ugly shot, wow!
• Parker grabs an offensive board, and lays it back up.
• Ellis hits Biedrins with a behind the back pass for an easy layup, sick.
• Stephen Jackson hits an open trey.
• Delfino bricks a deep three with the shot clock running down.
• Ellis catches the ball at the top of key from Biedrins and sticks it.
• TJ checks in at the 3:09 mark 28-11 Warriors.
• Parker catches and shoots in transition off a TJ pass.
• Parker follows it up with another jumper inside the key, GS timeout.
• GS attacks the paint out of the time, and gets to the line.
• Humphries forces the issue on offense again, and turns it over.
• Moon throws the ball away, but TJ steals it and passes to Delfino for a layup.
• TJ gets deep into the paint, and turns it over, leads to an open durnk by Pietrus on the break.
• Ellis blows by everyone and lays it up with 3 seconds left in the quarter.
• 35-17 Warriors, I have a feeling I’m gonna stop taking notes from half-time.

2nd Quarter:

• Pietrus starts the quarter with a dunk in traffic.
• Parker answers with a jumper inside the arc.
• Davis finds a slashing Azabuike for an open layup.
• TJ turns the ball over, but Ellis throws it away on the break.
• Humphries hits a forced jumper, his whole offensive game short of put backs is forced.
• Hump hits another one from the same spot.
• Ellis sticks a jumper inside the arc.
• TJ gets fouled penetrating, he hits both.
• Hump tips in TJ’s missed layup on the break.
• Harrington grabs his own offensive rebound and gets fouled laying it up, he hits both.
• Humphries forces the ball over again, trying to the force the issue. He needs to stop asap.
• Davis posts TJ up, spins baseline away from the double team and hits the jumper.
• Parker sticks a trey in transition with Parker pulling the trigger.
• Parker steals the ball from Azubuike.
• Smith is doing his Bugsey Malone impersonation with that suit…I’m kind of embarassed for him.
• TJ penetrates and lays it up.
• TJ shoots it in Harringtons eye.
• Harrington blows by Hump and lays it up.
• Ford goes to the well once to often and misses, but everyone is just standing around.
• Delfino jacks a shot from the top of the key and gets the roll.
• Harrington drop steps and hits the fade-a-way J.
• Delfino posts up Watson and gets fouled, hitting both from the line.
• Jackson gets deep in the post and draws a foul on Kapono.
• TJ penetetrates, shakes and bakes and hits a shot over Harrington.
• Humphries mugs Harrington in the paint.
• TJ penetrates and throws a dangerous pass to Hum pwho hits the jumper.
• Matt Barnes slashes to the rim, catches the pass and lays the ball up.
• Hump hits another inside the paint from TJ’s pass.
• Barnes grabs a big offensive board over Hump, and lays it up in his eye.
• Hump goes to the well 10 times too often, and bricks a J.
• Ford steals the ball in transition, which leads to a Kapono jumper from a TJ pass.
• Raptors are hanging in there, seems like the Warriors just turned it off for a bit.
• Ellis grabs an offensive rebound and gets it back on the give-and-go with Barnes and lays it up in traffic.
• TJ gets the roll on his jumper.
• 58-48 Warriors. I know the Raptors are going to lose, but I can’t stop taking notes for now…crap, lol.

3rd Quarter:

• Jackson hits a jumper at the top of the key, way too much space to shoot that.
• Bargnani gets deep in the paint with Davis on his hip, and draws the foul, he hits 1 of 2.
• Calderon steps inside the arc and nails the jumper.
• Ellis gets out on the break and hits a layup quickly.
• Parker gets fouled taking it to the rack, but no call.
• Bargnani gets called for a charge akign it to the rack.
• Calderon pulls up inside the arc and sticks the jumper.
• Pietrus answers with his foot on the line.
• Rasho hits a hook in the paint from the pass from Bargnani.
• Rasho steals the ball which leads to a Parker trey in transition.
• Jackson penetrates and kicks to an open Davis for a trey.
• Jackson steals the ball from Bargnani, and Davis takes it coast to coast for a layup. NO one stopped ball.
• Bargnani sticks a trey to make up for it.
• Moon steals the ball, and draws teh foul from Jackson, he hits both from the line.
• Rasho takes the pass from Calderon at the elbow and hits the jumper.
• Jackson has space and hits the three.
• Ellis has space and hits the jumper.
• Parker slashes, catches, shoots and hits.
• Ellis answers, kid is sick.
• Moon sticks a jumper off a Bargnani screen.
• Pietrus grabs an offensive rebound, which lead to an Ellis dunk on the baseline.
• Moon jacks a trey…misses.
• Bargnani turns and shoots and scores with Davis on his hip.
• Calderon strips Ellis, but turns it over on the break.
• Parker hits another jumper in the corner
• Jackson answers.
• Andrea curls off the low screen and answers from 18.
• Davis hits a baseline jumper over Calderon.
• TJ penetrates and shovels to Rasho below the rim for a layup.
• Ellis hits a baseline jumper as the clock expires, all from a Pietrus hustle play to save the ball from going out of bounds.

4th Quarter:

• Humphries BRICKS a shot at the top of the key. I don’t like him.
• Bargnani catches the pass from Delfino and sticks the trey.
• Kapono draws a charge from Ellis.
• Bargnani backs Azubuike down and hits the turn around jumper.
• Harrington grabs his own offensive rebound and puts it back.
• Delfino takes it to the rack and dunks over Harrington.
• Ford hits Kapono with a backdoor pass; Kapono misses the layup, but draws the foul and hits both from the line.
• Delfino hits two free throws to tie the game.
• Biendrins hits a layup over Hump.
• TJ goes glass, and hits one on his bak.
• Ford rips through the lane and hits a floater for the lead.
• Davis has an inch and sticks a jumper.
• Ellis hits an acrobatic layup on the basline.
• Davis lobs a pass to an open Biedrins for a layup.
• Ford bricks which leads to a Pietrus dunk on the break, Raptors timeout.
• Bargnani turns the ball over, leading to an Ellis layup on the break.
• TJ draws the foul and hits both from the line.
• Jackson battles Parker to get a jumper off, but sticks it.
• Bargnani grabs an offensive rebound and draws the foul, he hits 1 of 2.
• Davis finds a WIDE OPEN Biedrins under the rim for a layup.
• Ford pops over Davis for a jumper.
• Jackson sticks a daggar from behind the arc.
• Ford answers under the rim quickly.
• Davis sticks daggar from inside the arc with Parker in his face - done deal, finito, game over…

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