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Wright Rips Into Raptors For Lack Of Focus
Wright enlisted star Chris Bosh to help change the team's attitude after a 35-point loss to Charlotte earlier in the week. He told Bosh, " 'Hey, you've got guys in here eating popcorn, joking around before the game. And we go out there and lose by 40. It's a direct result of what's going on before the game. Guys not coming in with the right mind frame.' " Bosh agreed with Wright's assessment. "Guys get ready in their own way, but I think as a team we could do a lot to get better focused," Bosh said. "Just staying on each other and making sure we're ready to play. It's something we'll talk about." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Rasheed: Floppers Are Ruining The NBA
Wallace says he was duped into his fifth technical foul of the season by Raptors forward Hedo Turkoglu on Friday night. "They've got to know that he's a [darn] flopper. That's all Turkododo do," Wallace said after Boston beat Toronto. "Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere. He acts like I shot him. "That's not basketball, man. That's not defense. That's garbage, what it is. I'm glad I don't have too much of it left." Commissioner David Stern has complained about flopping in the past, but the NBA has struggled to try and curtail it. "This game is watered down, watered down with all that flopping. They're setting rules on us to the point where you're taunting if you dunk on somebody. Paul [Pierce] dunked it and then he didn't say nothing, but it's a tech," Wallace added. Pierce was called for a technical after he dunked on Chris Bosh. Pierce hovered over Bosh as he remained on the ground, apparently injured. Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bosh Differentiates Himself From LeBron
"That's just the attention that LeBron's been getting for a while and that's expected," Bosh said. "It speaks a lot of him that somebody's able to handle all that and still play basketball at the same time. It's a part of our job. It's what makes us who we are and why we're here. I understand all of that. "Some people are a different way. I guess he can do all that stuff, handle the questions, juggle all that. I don't like even thinking about it. I can't be thinking about it. If I'm playing a game, I want to be thinking about the game and that's it. It's the only way I can get the most out of myself." Bosh was asked about the possibility of playing in his home state of Texas. "I feel right like that now, that playing close to home could be a negative," Bosh said. But I can't say that I'll feel the same way later, next month, next summer, next year. I may change my mind. I just got to live for right now and help this team be as good as they can be and be as good a player as I can be and enjoy the city of Toronto." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Raptors Nov 2009 Archive
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Raptors guard/forward Antoine Wright suggested that his teammates change their approach heading into Friday night's game against the Celtics.
Celtics forward Rasheed Wallace is upset with what he believes is an epidemic of flopping in the NBA.
Even though Chris Bosh and LeBron James are both superstars and will possibly be free agents, the Raptors' forward differentiated himself from his peer in terms of how he deals with 2010.