Game Notes: Sonics at Raptors

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Linkage - March 11
Published 3/11/2008 by sdp04 at The AltRaps Blog
... -It should not surprise you to discover that Primoz instantly became my favorite human being on the planet following that little outburst. -Colangelo, by the way, made it explicitly clear that our chat was strictly off the record. But know this: In those five minutes or so that we spoke, I learned more about the NBA and some of the juicy League wide back-office politics than I could have ever hoped to glean in a lifetime of following and covering the sport. Really eye-opening stuff. - Slam 18. Toronto Raptors- Robin Lopez, C/PF, Stanford. They need a C who can patrol the ...

Reliablility on court and on blogs
Published 3/11/2008 by mgrange at The Globe and Mail - From Deep
... not to give the award to Smart. His team, don’t forget, graduated Osvaldo Jeanty, quite possibly the best player the program has ever had. And if Carleton remained nicely stocked with talent – well, recruiting is a big part of coaching, last I checked. No one -- least of all Smart, I would bet – would try to make the case that Mike Katz is not a great coach whose acumen helped the Blues over-achieve this season. But going undefeated is over-achieving too. XXXXXX I’m too old to read Slam , but I took a look the other day because this guy Marcel from Ottawa was in Toronto on the ...

34-30
Published 3/13/2008 by dinosty at THE DINOSTY
You don’t like it, Carlos? Maybe if you stopped taking half-court three’s and took it to the net, things would be different. Inching closer to par…thank the basketball gods for two things: 1. We’re guaranteed to go home above .500 2. We’re in the Eastern Conference.  How crazy is the West playoff race this year? It gets my heart beating double time. There are FIVE wins (or 4 losses) separating the best in the West from the 8th seed. The win discrepancy between the East leader Boston and 8th seed Nets is 24. What does this mean? It means the Western ...