Numbers don't lie for Raptors

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Jose Calderon The Raptors' Jose Calderon celebrates a basket against the Orlando Magic during Game 3 of their first round Eastern Conference playoff series in Toronto on Thursday. Game 4 is Saturday at the Air Canada Centre. (REUTERS/Peter Jones) [link]

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GAME 4 LINKS: An "inner Chris Black," and hey, did you know Jason Kapono is playing well???
Published 4/26/2008 by c_r_black at T.Jose Caldeford
... talking about Toronto's good defence????? Another one from Mr. Grange (who, incidentally, says he channeled his "inner Chris Black" for this article)... I'm still not sold on whether the Raps are actually playing better defence, or if the Magic are just missing open shots, but if an inner Chris Black is involved, I should probably be on board. ...

Linkage - April 26
Published 4/26/2008 by Scott at The AltRaps Blog
... teams to shoot a comfortable 37.8 per cent."We’re just trying to be more aggressive and be more trapping. And I think as a result we’re a lot more aggressive to get to the three-point line and make them shoot tougher shots," Parker said."The Golden Rule is you live by the three, you die by three," Raptors point guard T.J. Ford said. "We’ve experienced that this year … you just try to make it tough for people. [Going small] helped last night. It helped us get off to a fast start." - Globe and Mail "Some of you guys need to actually come on the road and experience that, instead ...

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