1. Thanks for the compliment.

2. What these charts really show is that the Raptors are losing games this season in a VARIETY of different ways, based on the many holes in their team defense.

Abandoning the “Hedge & Recover” tactic is an important ingredient to them being able to improve their P & R/P defense overall, which is a real key whenever Bargnani is on the floor.

As long as they persist in using Bargnani, Turkoglu and Calderon together for a big chunk of minutes they will have little choice but to try and outscore their opponent. Although this strategy can succeed in isolated games vs weak opposition, on a night-to-night basis AND vs High End competition it is going to produce inconsistent results as far as W’s and L’s are cncerned, e.g. winning vs poor defensive teams and losing vs good ones.

If this season was REALLY about turning this franchise in the RIGHT direction, becoming a LEGIT contender, and RETAINING the future services of Chris Bosh, then, unfortunately, none of those specific goals is likely to be reached.

If, on the other hand, this season was REALLY all about, re-energizing the fanbase, providing high-scoring entertaining hoops, and perhaps being in the playoff hunt for the entire year … while making a tidy bottom-line profit for the team’s ownership group … then, MLSE is likely to be smiling from ear-to-ear once again next spring/summer.

It really is a matter of different priorities.

IMO, “real-life” basketball people have a thorough awareness of what’s going with this franchise … which has been the case since MLSE assumed full control of the hockey and basketball operations.

Winning a league championship is NOT the goal for MLSE … which is a major problem for individuals like me who expect THAT to be a primary objective of a professional sports franchise which they are willing to support as a fan.