Raptors Looking To Eat McNuggets In Denver!

By Louis “King of Roncesvalles” Pisano

Toronto has made its second trip of this young season out West and is going to be facing the deadly Denver Nuggets tonight at the Pepsi Centre.

This Nuggets team is made its way home from a six game eastern road trip on which they went 3-3 and had to immediately face the cream of the of the crop in the west and the defending world champion Lakers. Denver proceeded to pound the Lakers 105-79, which tells you how well they play at home.

Now, the Raptors having never been a great road team and who are only 2-4 this year away from the ACC could be in tough.

They put forth a gritty effort at both ends of the court albeit in a loss Sunday to the high-flying Phoenix Suns but lost by only a single point.

Their defence which has been one of the concerns for the team over years held the aforementioned Suns, the highest scoring team in the NBA, to 101 points.

Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony, and Kenyon Martin make up the big three for Denver and will be hard to stop and account for the majority of their scoring.

Rookie PG Ty Lawson former stud of the North Carolina Tarheels is averaging 10.3 points per game and looks great along with J.R. Smith who is averaging 14.3 and the Bird Man Chris Anderson averaging 5.2 PPG 7.1 RPG and 1.2 BPG all who are coming off the bench.

This in one team that can truly compare to the depth of the Raptors bench and if the Raps are going to hang around in this game they will have to outscore this trio of starters and bench players.

Bosh, Bargnani, Calderon and Turkoglu will be leaned on heavily tonight and should be on the floor for a lot of minutes, and when Jerrett Jack, Amir Johnson and Antoine Wright are in they will need to be productive if the Raptors hope to come away with the win.

With the dominance this Nuggets team has imposed on visiting teams and with the thin air and unaccommodating weather the Toronto Raptors will need to muster every last ounce of get up and go they have to pull out a win. But as I said in previous articles I think this team can win on any given night against an opponent.

This is one that will be just a little more difficult than others.

Go Raps!