I Just Don't Want to Talk About It....

But you all know that I have to. Garbo's injury was ugly, I am just glad that it wasn't his knee, and hopefully, he will be back healthy in time for next season.

Here were my initial thoughts after almost barfing when I saw the injury:

There are only so many solutions available right now. I think Joey Graham has to be the answer at SF right now. Mo Pete was dragging ass again, and played like shit. He hasn't shown anything except for last Friday. Its time for Joey to shine, he has to get it done now, he has to get his head out of his ass and play the hard nosed defense and get some big boards that Garbo was giving them. Mo Pete needs to get a fucking clue and start nailing some 3's as well. I think the Raptors can get through this injury, but it is really going to take a huge effort by Joey and Mo to survive.


Richie's Thoughts, the day after:

Ouch! Ive read all the updates and for once I must say that I am happy i was not in Toronto watching last nights game.

So now we must analyse some of the likely repercussions:

1 MoPete starts in Garbo's place. This is the most likely and in spite of MoPete's up and down play this year he has still proven to be better than Joey on the vast majority of nights. He has experience, plays decent defence, is one of the teams leaders, and can stretch the D when hitting his 3's.

2. Joey starts in Garbo's place. Also a likely solution to the problem provided that Graham actually starts to show some consistent effort. He never has before though so why now? Is he ready to break out? I doubt it.

3. Start Dixon at SG and move Parker over to SF. I wouldn't do this, but if Mitchell has as much of a man crush on Dixon as it seems he does, it certainly is not out of the realm of possibility.

4. Start Luke Jackson in Garbo's place. Haha. Just kidding.

5. Bargnani makes a superhuman comeback while displaying faster powers of recovery than even Wolverine. He then decides to quit pretending to be a centre and become an exclusively 3 point chucking 7 footer a la Sam Perkins.

6. Go big and let the Hump play the three. This may in fact solve the Raptors rebounding woes - while simultaneously creating about 15 brand new problems. It may also necessitate that they begin to play My hump, my hump, my humps, his lovely lady lumps, more often in the ACC.

7. Explore the latest in experimental surgery and actually try to transplant Garbajosa's brain into Joey Graham's body. By creating Josep Garbagraham the raps could have the best of both worlds. This is probably a better option than number 4.

I personally, love idea 7, if only cloning and brain transplantation technology could be ready by the end of April!