This was the kind of game you want to have three or four or five drinks in you to watch.
So it turned out to be appropriate to meet up with my good friend Mr. Tougas at our local watering hole to take in the Raps and Bucks game. A game that should by all accounts be a reminder as to why the TJ Ford for Villanueva trade was a good one; a game that should be a walk in the park for the Raps and a quick hop through Milwaukee, a city made famous, to me at least, by Alice Cooper’s cameo in Wayne’s World. What the hell else has Milwaukee done in my lifetime? That 70’s show doesn’t count because you know what? It’s just a TV show.
The Raps stunk it up tonight, no doubt. But they didn’t really start stinking it up until the third quarter. Sure, the Bucks scored 68 points in the first half, but they were shooting like 70 per cent from the field in the first 24 minutes. You can’t beat that. Everything that could have went the Bucks’ way did in the first half (check the highlights for the play where a Bucks pass bounced off Andrew Bogut’s head, he catches it and then lays it in off the front rim and gets the roll.) did, and there was really nothing that Toronto could do but hope that things would go that way for them at some point, which it never really did. Chris Bosh sucked tonight. So did Bargnani. Kris Humphries had a career night and Desmond Mason turned into a drop-stepping, low post working, hook shot hoisting warrior who couldn’t miss (seriously, he went 10-10 from the field while dropping an identical hookshot on at least two different Raptors).
Yeah, tonight was the Bucks’ night. It’s rare that a team clicks like that from the get, but when they do, you’re hooped (no pun intended). The Raps can only hope that they’ll click like that once this week to avenge the loss, or at least lay a 30-plus-point smackdown on the Bucks the next time they meet. But really, when a team’s shooting in the 70 per cent range, what are you gonna do? What can you do?
Standouts for the Raps: Kris Humphries: 16 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks, 2 assists, 1 steal. Everyone else stunk.
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