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WTF have the Raptors been doing the past 5 years or so...building around CB4 and that has either gotten them no playoffs or 1st round exits
Chris Bosh: ‘I Wanted to Get Stronger’
Sean Deveney
SportingNews
Chris Bosh is in the midst of his finest NBA season, and, fittingly, he will make his fifth appearance in the NBA’s All-Star Game on Sunday. He is averaging 24.4 points and 11.4 rebounds, and he has helped lead the Raptors to a 29-23 record, just four games behind the Celtics in the Atlantic Division. He spoke with Sporting News’ Sean Deveney ahead of All-Star weekend.
Sporting News: You came out with a DVD recently, First Ink, in which you are getting your back tattooed. Why did you want to make that into a do entary?
Chris Bosh: I had this opportunity to make a movie, but everything I could think of had already been done before. You know, a do entary about my life, the whole rags-to-riches story. It’s all been done. It’s played-out, for me. So I wanted to do something different.
SN: In the movie, you talk a lot about changing your body. You put on a lot of muscle this summer.
CB: It was changing the way I think. It was changing me as a person. It was a lot of things. Changing physically. It was a whole bunch of things that I wanted to change about myself. Not that I was bad in the past. It was just a time for a change for me.
SN: Why?
CB: Getting older and maturing. And, my body, I wanted to get stronger. When I watched the old replay of the 2008 Olympics, it hit me that, I was looking at Dwight Howard, and he is all muscle. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade. They’re muscle. And then I came into the game, and I am just so skinny. I wanted to change that.
SN: As far as the team goes, you’ve been playing much better, but the defense is still a question mark—you still give up triple digits a lot in games that you win. Are you OK with that?
CB: We win the game, we win the game. I can’t get too greedy. I look more at the percentages. If a team shoots 44 percent and scores 100 points, I can live with that because we play fast, we play a style that has a lot of possessions, more shots in the game.
SN: What did you learn in your two previous playoff experiences? You did not get out of the first round in either.
CB: They were quick. But you learn what pressure is really about. You learn about the spotlight, you learn how to prepare yourself, how to be prepared for every game.
SN: People in Toronto are afraid they’ll lose you to free agency. How often do you run up against that?
CB: I understand it because people here come up to me and tell me that all the time. I can’t go anywhere without someone coming up to me and saying, “What’s going to happen with you this summer?” And so I look and say, “I don’t know, man, what are you going to do this summer?” People just always want to know.
WTF have the Raptors been doing the past 5 years or so...building around CB4 and that has either gotten them no playoffs or 1st round exits
His 2nd player was what? Jason Kapono? They suck.
Those sucky Raptors are 18-6 in their last 24 games and 13-1 in their last 14 home games.
NBA.com Race to the MVP
4. Chris Bosh, Raptors (29-23)
G MPG PPG RPG APG SPG BPG FG% 3P% FT%
52 36.2 24.4 11.4 2.3 0.6 1.0 .526 .400 .785
Last Week's Rank - 8
Bosh finished strong for the Raptors before the break, totaling 59 points on 22-of-33 shooting with 23 rebounds and eight assists in their two most recent victories. Maybe Bosh and Durant can put a little friendly wager in play, with their rankings in The Race, when they butt heads twice this weekend (Bosh will serve as assistant coach of the second-year players in the Rookie Challenge and then, of course, will clash with Durant in the big game on Sunday.)
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/feature...s=iref:nbahpt1
Bosh not homesick
Marc J. Spears
Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh has returned to his hometown of Dallas for the All-Star Game. But don’t think Bosh’s Texas ties – or Dirk Nowitzki – will help the Mavericks lure him when he’s a free agent this summer.
“Dirk is here. This is Dirk’s team. We play the same position,” Bosh said. “That’s always going to be a clash.
“Being close to home, I don’t know if that’s the best thing. I don’t know. I’m a lot more mature now. But it’s a whole different distraction than being able to play somewhere else.”
Chris Bosh is supremely confident in his basketball ability and he's equally sure of himself as a salesman.
With incessant chatter about Bosh leaving the Raptors as a free agent this summer – although never from him – he said Friday he'd like a shot at attracting someone to Toronto.
"Come visit me for a weekend and then we'll talk later," he said when asked what his sales pitch would be.
But Bosh was coy when asked to describe that weekend. "Ah, go to the museums, go to the park, go out to eat, go get some shots up."
Bosh has been a big promoter of Toronto in the last couple of years and said earlier this season he feels "at home" when he comes back to his adopted hometown.
He just wishes it wasn't so hard to get major recognition for the team or the city. "It gets forgotten all the time, I don't think it's that much of a secret," he said "We don't have any national games in the States, we don't get as much attention as other teams do. I mean, we're rolling right now and I don't think anybody really knows it.
"I think it can be changed, you just have to go the extra mile."
http://www.thestar.com/sports/basket...o-to-the-world
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