emptythebench.com - 4/25/2008
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And now, with their red t-shirt clad hometown fans going bonkers and surely planning to amp up the noise factor even further Sunday afternoon, the Raptors know for sure now that they can play with the Magic, that they can even this series up, and that they can, in fact, rely on each other to step up, a confidence that has been lacking in recent weeks.
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Linkage - April 26
The AltRaps Blog —
Two games into this Eastern Conference quarter-final against the Orlando Magic, T.J. Ford knew he was struggling. But what amazed him was how quickly and how far his stock dropped. Now after Game 3, his stock has done a U-turn, through the Air Canada Centre roof, and the point guard suddenly is the toast of the town. "It’s easy to ride the horse when it’s going well," Ford said yesterday after scoring 21 points in the 108-94 victory the night before. "That’s the easy thing … to stand by them when they’re going well, to give them all the credit in the world. But the hard thing to do is when a guy is not going well, how many people continue to believe in that dude and that he will play well? ...
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