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Jackson dresses pretty fly for a 40-something year old lol.
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What changes did the Raptors make? They added a couple of staff members, oh boy, that sure is scary.
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I guarantee you that the Raptors will finish with better records than both the Magic and especially the Nets, and in the end, that's all that matters.
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Carter hit the game winner. Pretty messed up.
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I'm not part of the "I HATE CARTER WITH EVERY FIBRE IN MY BODY" type of Raptors fan, so I enjoyed that game-winner. That was one of the most clutch shots I've ever seen, although Jason Kidd jumping on top of him and riding him like a bull afterwards looked somewhat awkward.
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Vince was just kidding, Mo Pete has to get pissed off for no reason
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Vince instigated the slap (bitch)-fight. Seriously, who the hell slaps someone in the middle of a basketball game? I know they were teammates and all that, but still, Carter needs to just focus on the game. Carter slapped him first, Mo-Pete gave a little nudge back, and he ended up getting ejected for it. You think Carter wouldn't have been pissed if the situation was reversed?
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You can't say a year together is going to make a team into a championship calibur type.
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Who said anything about championship caliber? The comments started because someone said the Raptors would be better than the Nets and Magic this upcoming season, and I obviously agree.
By the way, the Raptors have a pretty long window of opportunity for a championship. Thier core (Bosh, Bargs, Ford) is quite young and I'm assuming that we will resign the core when the time comes so our run is just starting to take foot. I've never been more confident about this team, and NY, NJ, Orlando, and whoever else's fanbase can disagree all they want. The only teams that will eventually stand in the way of the Raptors (assuming we continue to progress as projected) are Chicago and possibly Cleveland (I'm never confident in that team's roster...I still don't know how they made it to the Finals). After the Boston superstars-era fades out (by 2009 or so), most of the other teams will be in rebuilding mode and the Raptors will have not only experience but a core just STARTING to reach thier primes at that time. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty damn promising to me.
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Plus Carter talked to the refs to try and get Mo Pete back,
yet everyone was booing the ***** out of him.
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He was facing a hostile and angry crowd in his return to Toronto and he just got one of our players ejected, you think they're going to give him a standing ovation?