Let's take a break from mourning Goran's departure and focus on a little basketball.
Suns are in Toronto to take on the Raptors (16-42) tonight.
Predictably, the Raptors are a horrible team with the terrible record (22nd ranked offense, 29th ranked defense) who presents matchup problems for the Suns with their youth on the wing. This is easily a game I see the Suns losing, much like the Philly and Sacramento losses.
Over the last 10 games, Andrea Bargnani and Demar DeRozan are tearing it up.
But watch out for the other guys. Leandro Barbosa (with whom the Suns had dinner last night), Jerryd Bayless, Sonny Weems, and now James Johnson are all physically talented and maddeningly inconsistent. If two of those guys step up, along with Bargnani and DeRozan, it will be a long night for the Suns.
Overall, they are playing better as a team, going 3-5 in their last 8 games following a 13-game losing streak. So things are looking up in Toronto, relatively speaking.
The Suns need to come out with focus and energy to win this game.
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