Christmas Comes Early for the Raptors

Around last week, I was looking at upcoming Raptors games, and I actually circled us to lose this one. Why? The softies Colangelo has signed to play basketball have no doubt been looking forward to this game for weeks, not because this is a game we could and should (and did) win, but because everyone loves Christmas. We aren't exactly a good team either, faced with a comparably bad team and our lack of mental fortitude, I was sure we would lose.

Well, turns out we won. Surprise, surprise, which also ties us for our season high for win streak. 3 games! 3 games!! Pretty disappointing actually, but we're still slightly better off than last year, and I'd like to think we're trending up instead of down. Of course, we still have another game against the Pistons after Christmas, with a good chance we'll lose.

Early on, despite the 1st quarter lead we showed our lack of toughness. We gave up 9 offensive rebounds in the first quarter. That's about 8 more than it should of been. Luckily for us Bargnani was playing well and even had a block or two. Actually, let's call it Italy night, even Belinelli played well in his best game in weeks. The rest of the game we slowly outplayed the Pistons and by the 4th quarter we had a 20 point game.

Enjoy the holidays.