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FINAL SCORE: TOR 101, Uta 109
Complete Game Info

These are the different 5-Man Units which the Jazz and Raptors chose to play in the 4th quarter of yesterday’s game:

SUBSTITUTION CHART Raptors vs Jazz, 4th Quarter   [Sun Mar 08 2009]
Time	Team	PG	OG	SF	PF	C	Start	End	Diff
12:00	Uta	Knight	Korver	Kirilenko	Harpring	Collins	81 87	81 87	0
	TOR	Parker√	Kapono	Graham√	Marion√	Bosh√
10:17	Uta	Williams					81 87	82 89	+1
	TOR			√	√
09:40	Uta				Millsap	Okur	82 89	85 89	-3
	TOR			√	√	√
09:29	Uta						85 89	87 89	-2
	TOR	Calderon		√	√	√
08:21	Uta						87 89	95 93	-4
	TOR			√	Bosh√	Bargnani
05:46	Uta						95 93	97 95	0
	TOR		Parker	√	√
04:23	Uta						97 95	104 97	-5
	TOR			Marion√	√
01:00	Uta						104 97	109 101	-1
	TOR			Kapono	√
LEGEND: Bold – Player Subbed into the game; Italics – Player Shifted to a new position; √ – Solid Rebounder

 

This is how the Minutes Played [MP], at specific positions, broke down for each player:

Utah

Brevin Knight/PG, 01:43
Jarron Collins/C, 02:20
Matt Harpring/PF, 02:20
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Deron Williams/PG, 10:17
Kyle Korver/OG, 12:00
Andrei Kirilenko/SF, 12:00
Paul Millsap/PF, 09:40
Mehmet Okur/C, 09:40

Toronto

Jose Calderon/PG, 09:29
Anthony Parker/PG, 02:31
Anthony Parker/OG, 05:46
Jason Kapono/OG, 07:14
Joey Graham/SF, 07:37
Shawn Marion/PF, 03:39
Shawn Marion/SF, 03:23
Chris Bosh/C, 03:39
Chris Bosh/PF, 08:21 
Andrea Bargnani/C, 08:21

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Key Utah Possession Outcomes during the final 01:35 of the 4th Q

01:35 Deron Williams Made 22-ft Jumpshot [P & R/P isolation vs Switch by Bargnani/checking MIllsap] 

01:00 Deron Williams Maked 1 FT [fouled by Bargnani, P & R/P isolation vs Switch by Bargnani/checking Kirilenko]

00:31 Mehmet Okur Made Layup [P & R isolation vs Switch by Bosh/checking Okur and Bargnani failed to Rotate-to-Help Calderon vs Okur]

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If the Raptors would have used a combination of the following 6 players, instead:

Calderon/PG
Parker/OG or PG [solid Rebounder/Defender at the PG spot]
Graham/OG or SF [solid Rebounder/Defender at the OG or SF spot]
Marion/PF or SF [solid Rebounder/Defender at the PF or the SF spot]
Mensah-Bonsu/PF [solid Rebounder/Defender at the PF spot]
Bosh/C [solid Rebounder/Defender at the C spot]

during the final 06:00 minutes, the outcome would have been different for the home team.

As long as the Raptors continue to assemble a roster of players like this and then use them in the way they are right now … which is how they’ve operated for much of this disappointing season to-date … they will continue to come up short on a consistent basis against the High End Teams in this league.

Despite what others might think … the Raptors are NOT repeatedly losing games this season on account of how Jose Calderon and/or Chris Bosh are performing at the Point Guard spot and the Center position, respectively.

They are losing games on account of what’s happening on the floor when:

1. Chris Bosh is NOT at the Center position;

2. Jose Calderon, or Anthony Parker, is NOT at the Point Guard position; and,

3. Jason Kapono is NOT sitting on the bench … beside Andrea Bargnani [with Roko Ukic, Marcus Banks, Jake Voskuhl, Jermaine O'Neal, Will Solomon, Hassan Adams, and Nathan Jawai], from an effective Rebounding & Team Defense perspective.

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PS. FWIW, you can decide for yourself who you think SHOULD bare Most of The Responsibility for this … i.e. Sam Mitchell, Jay Triano or BRYAN COLANGELO.

Tags: Andrea Bargnani, Andrei Kirilenko, Anthony Parker, Brevin Knight, Bryan Colangelo, Chris Bosh, Deron Williams, Hassan Adams, Jake Voskuhl, Jarron Collins, Jason Kapono, Jay Triano, Jermaine O'Neal, Joey Graham, Jose Calderon, Kyle Korver, Marcus Banks, Matt Harpring, Mehmet Okur, Nathan Jawai, Paul Millsap, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Roko Ukic, Sam Mitchell, Shawn Marion, Will Solomon

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