^^^ an old i hate the raptors classic
For those who stuck around to watch halftime during last night’s game (versus the Sixers) might’ve caught Leo Rautins “report card” segment where he attached grades to Raptor players. If I remember correctly the highest grades were awarded to Chris Bosh and Jose Calderon who are both having exceptional seasons. Next he awarded TJ Ford with an A, despite his season being cut short due to injury. Jamario Moon was also awarded an A given everything he’s accomplished, especially coming into the season with little to no expectations. He goes down the roster with the lowest grades given to the guys who get little to no floor time (Martin, Baston, Graham) and Andrea Bargnani who’s simply been terrible as of late. Given that the lowest grade were C’s, I guess we can all agree he was nothing short of being politcally correct.
At RaptorsCentral, we allow all the users to rate our beloved Raptors on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, where 1 is terrible and 5 is exceptional. Users are allowed to rate our players on a daily basis and equally encouraged to rate both losses and wins – players playing great to players playing poorly. As we’ve reached the mid-point of our season, we’ll take a look at how we’ve rated our players.
Top 3 Highest Rated Raptors
Jamario Moon – 4.05 stars
Chris Bosh – 3.97 stars
Jose Calderon – 3.88 stars
3 Lowest Rated Raptors
Maceo Baston – 1.75 stars
Darrick Martin – 2.5 stars
Jorge Garbajosa – 2.5 stars
Most Rated Raptors
Chris Bosh
Anthony Parker
Jose Calderon
My thoughts:
While I think that Chris Bosh and Jose Calderon should be rated highest, it didn’t surprise me that Jamario Moon holds that top position for the same reasons Leo mentioned – he came into the season with virtually no expectations and has inserted himself into the starting rotation of this team. The guy is exciting, atheletic, blocks shots, grabs boards and pretty much does everything many of us thought we’d be addressing through free agency.
The Raptors rated the most wasn’t too much of a surprise either as the only guy I figured would be there before the season began would be TJ Ford. A little surprising is the fact that Andrea wasn’t in the mix as he had higher expectations pre-season and now to the point where some are calling him a bust and may have wanted to take out their frustrations.
were these ratings based on polls you ran? i would have rated bargnani the lowest, dude is disappointing. i don’t think it’s fair to rate garbo the lowest in any case, he played like 3 games, and one of them was off the wall good.
yes, the ratings were from this website and were running since the beginning of the season. check out: http://www.raptorscentral.com/your-toronto-raptors/
i agree with the garbo point… in fact, it seems like the ones who were rated the lowest also received the least (total) amount of ratings, which makes sense since a lot of them don’t see a lot of floor time – whether from playing bad or their limited role, ala Baston and Martin.