Based on this article from yesterday's Toronto Star, I'd say it's time for the Toronto Raptors to fire head coach Jay Triano. Their record now stands at 7-13 with a quarter of the season done. At that rate, they will finish 28-54, well out of the playoffs. They currently stand 29th in the league in opposing teams' PPG (trailing only Golden State, which plays a frenetic pace and barely bothers on defense), and 27th in opposing teams' FG%. The players think the coach is doing a horrid job. If this continues through April, they would then lose star Chris Bosh, leaving them with a team "featuring" Calderon, Bargnani, Turkoglu, Nesterovic, and Bellinelli. Hogtown deserves better.
The team, named after a Spielbergian movie villain from 1993, now feels more like a James Cameron film that premiered four years later. (Cameron is from Ontario, incidentally.)
Friday, December 4, 2009
The Lysine Contingency
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3 comments:
Sad but true. Triano is a nice guy, but evidently, a terrible coach. When players practically beg to watch game film and to be pushed harder in practice, you know you have a problem...
BTW, which is a sillier pro sports name based on an early-90s movie, the Toronto Raptors or the Anaheim Mighty Ducks? At least the "Velociraptor" was an intimidating character.
Agreed that Swinetown deserves better
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