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Doug Smith has been a sportswriter for more than 30 years, a journey that's included seven Olympic Games, numerous and varied championships and more dreary regular season games than he'd care to remember. Here, he'll talk about them all, as well as current events and pop culture. (Just don’t ask him about music nowadays — it's not his cup of tea).
uh....just going through your blog, you seem to hate alston for various reasons - i thought he ran the team very solid...i don't know what his stats were from the game (and i dont look at stats in the playoffs unless they show them on TV, i measure a player's impact on the game i see visually), but again i thought alston ran the team solid and took good shots...
about mo williams not being a big-time player, i disagree on that one also....
Blogger's note: Hate is such a strong word. I see flaws in is game.
Posted by: aditya | May 21, 2009 at 01:10 AM
doug can you mention the score once in a while in the blog? thanks
Posted by: Richard Yun | May 21, 2009 at 06:18 AM
I concur on the somewhat unwarranted Rafer criticism- it's as if he and a friend of yours had a dispute in the locker room once upon a time. The fact is that Rafer has won more series this year than the Raps have in all their history. Not only should he be commended on that, but all Doug's backhanded criticism of Babcock's signing back in the day should be apologized for as well. Rafer's teammates may still not like him (I don't know) but they're winning games, which is more than can be said for our Raptors, whose great chemistry has led them to 33 wins this year.
Yes, he has "flaws in his game." You know who else has flaws? Lovely Jose Calderon, who won't shoot a free throw unless it's a technical, and makes almost no use of his incredible FT %. You know who else had flaws? Classy Alvin Williams, who couldn't stay healthy and whose mammoth contract is just now coming off the books. If you look past these flaws, I can't see how you wouldn't look past Rafer's and give him some credit for leading an inexperienced team to the conference finals as a backup point thrust into the starting role. In the last month, he's done more than the Raptors have ever done- perhaps he had a right to be angry back in the day? Oh wait...... that would mean siding against good friend Smitch, and we wouldn't want to do that. :) Bias rules again.
Posted by: Eric | May 21, 2009 at 08:46 AM