The AltRaps Blog

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

If I’m Bryan Colangelo, I am on phone 29 times today seeing if there’s a small forward who can defend out there to be had. I know Ginobili and Kobe are all-stars (well, Ginobili should be) and Maggette’s pretty good but, really, watching them abuse the Raptors with ease in three consecutive home games has [...]

"It definitely felt good," Ford said of the warm welcome. "I was just excited to be able to play in front of our fans. It definitely made me feel good inside to know I’m appreciated, and I just wanted to come out and give them as much excitement as I could and show them I’m [...]

On Tuesday night, the reason the Raptors lost in Washington was that they allowed four offensive rebounds in the five-minute overtime, and got murdered on the boards all night. It’s not that Toronto is the worst rebounding team in the league — that would be Phoenix, actually. In fact, by percentage of available rebounds grabbed, [...]

The key to last night’s game, played before an announced crowd of 12,905 at the Verizon Center, was that the undermanned Wizards had a 19-12 advantage in offensive rebounds for the entire game and a 4-0 advantage in the overtime.
It is a far too familiar story for the Raptors.

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….rain..snow…rain…snow….make up your mind.
Here’s a thought: Raptors lose out in the Mighty Mouse our cheese is bigger sweepstakes. Why not go after the Birdman? TJ will be back soon anyway, so why waste $$$ on a third string guard? Go after Jamario Moon v1.0!!!
Practice….we are gonna talk about practice. First of all, have you ever [...]

The concept of trash talking is lost on Jose Calderon.
He doesn’t do it himself and when it is directed at him, which is happening more frequently, rarely does he realize it.
Calderon’s first experience with this predominantly North American practice was in his rookie season.
"The only guy I remember doing it was in [...]

Afterwards I asked Calderon what Mitchell used to called him.
“I cannot say that for the media,” he said in his thick Spanish accent. “It was ‘beeeeep rook.’” He made a long beeping noise to emphasize the abundance of syllables.
“In the beginning it was tough, because, you know, we didn’t win many games,” Calderon said. “He [...]