Friday, December 4, 2009

The Lysine Contingency

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.)

3 comments:

H.O.S.S. said...

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...

Bhel Atlantic said...

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.

EarlDaGoat said...

Agreed that Swinetown deserves better