NBA | Colangelo: Sam's safe 'for now'

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Linkage - April 30
Published 4/30/2008 by Scott at The AltRaps Blog
... The Raptors didn’t defend well enough, didn’t rebound well enough, weren’t athletic enough and didn’t have the necessary parts to ease the load on their best player."This is the sum of it all: we need to get some more help for Chris Bosh," he said. "Whether it’s protecting him inside in the paint, getting a little bit more of a presence in there, to just getting him another scorer that’s going to shoulder some of that burden, it’s something that’s clear we have to get better." - Toronto Star Calderon, who likewise said he was happy with his season personally, said he wants to ...

Toronto is still Sam’s town. Thoughts?
Published 4/30/2008 by Cuzzy at Cuzoogle
... to clean out lockers, return the borrowed DVDs and head in separate directions until training camp. Of course this is feeding time for the Toronto media and despite what everyone is saying it looks like Sam Mitchell will be back. Is this a good thing? Hard to say really. I like SMitch as a person and enjoy listening to his blunt interviews. But that does not mean he is the right coach to make the team better. There are going to be a lot of quality coaches out there to grab so does that tempt BC? Mike D’Antoni seems to be on the ...

Four-Point Play: Exit Interviews, Enter Golf Course
Published 4/30/2008 at Courtside
... ; needs to put him in better/easier situations; physically he wasn’t ready to play centre; maybe should have brought Andrea off the bench, but he was a big advocate of getting Andrea in there to play as a starter COLANGELO - need to address defence and rebounding, Andrea, need another 20pt scorer, need to get help for Bosh - lots of speculation about 2 playoff coaches that he finds ludicrous; absolutely no intention of a coaching change [for now] - ...