Utah at Toronto

[Real Deal]

TIME: 7:00 PM ET

TV: n/a

[*Swish*]

[expletive] Jay Triano for putting Evans in the last 2 minutes. Ed Davis is a way better defender no doubt about it and he will guard Al Jefferson way better than Reggie. 94-91 1 minute left.

[Doc]

I saw Ed Davis play 35 minutes tonight. Nice. I checked the box score started the first and he had 10 but then finished with 12? Lame.

[Built Ford Tough]

[expletive] Jay Triano for putting Evans in the last 2 minutes. Ed Davis is a way better defender no doubt about it and he will guard Al Jefferson way better than Reggie. 94-91 1 minute left.

 

Al Jefferson scored 34 points on 17-24 shooting. I don't think putting Davis on the floor would've made much of a difference at all, considering he had to have lit him up at the time as well.

 

Great loss, though. Got home from class to find out that the Raptors blew a 14 point 4th quarter lead and lost due to a tip in with 0.5 seconds left. Gotta be a tough loss for the team and a hard one to swallow, especially after the previous game against the Nets, but they can't afford to win games at this point in time. Teams like Washington, Sacramento, Cleveland and Minnesota are in full tank mode, so they need to follow suit.

[Check my Stats]

Oh my God I can't believe they lost . I was watching in class, the first half, then my laptop nearly died, checked my phone and they were up double digits so I was obviously pretty rattled, but they blew it! Any other year I'd be shook but right now I'm happy as can be. Also what I love about Derozan is that even though he struggled badly from the field, he was still able to get to the line 11 times to make his scoring line respectable. He also chipped in with 8 boards which is the kind of thing he needs to do more often. Does anyone else find it odd the number of steals Davis is racking up lately? He is averaging almost 2 a game in March, just kind of random from a big man lol. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining by any means, just an interesting stat especially considering his blocks are down quite a bit (0.5 in March).

 

You could tell from the start it was going to be a rough game for Demar last night though, between his 0-3 start from the field or the charges he kept picking up. Glad to see he still managed to have a relatively decent game. I want us to shut Bargs down and see what Demar does without him there.

 

Also how does Dorsey not get more minutes? Dude gets 6 points and 5 boards in 12 minutes after not playing since God knows when. I'd easily rather him get the scrap minutes than Ajinca. Also James Johnson needs to start playing under control, he makes some awesome plays but then always seems to counter it with a completely boneheaded play on the other end (often times immediately after).

[Built Ford Tough]

Does anyone else find it odd the number of steals Davis is racking up lately? He is averaging almost 2 a game in March, just kind of random from a big man lol. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining by any means, just an interesting stat especially considering his blocks are down quite a bit (0.5 in March).

 

His steals are a bit surprising, but he has shown very nice hands earlier in the season so I'm not shocked. He does a good job of stripping people of the ball when they are trying to back him down and getting into the passing lanes when teams are looking to pass it into the post.

 

As for the blocks, I noticed that he has been robbed of quite a few. In one of those games against the Nets in London, I counted at least 3 blocks of his and I think he was only credited with 1. I've noticed this happening quite a bit lately, so I'm not too worried about his blocks being a bit low so far this month because he is still doing a nice job of contesting and altering shots.