Intro; or why you shouldn't be too excited about the Raptors just yet

Hello there!
Welcome to my new basketblog! This will be my therapeutic rambling space for random thoughts about basketball (and maybe other sports) that I come up with over the course of the year! If you've managed to read this far, don't worry, things will get interesting.

The subject of my first blog will obviously be about my first love in the sport of basketball, the Toronto Raptors. Having been a relatively latecomer to the sport, I kinda only really caught on towards to the tail-end of the V.C madness and havn't really had an opportunity to experience much joy with the squadron. You'd think after tonight's ten point victory over the (expected) ECFC Cleveland Cavaliers that I'd be super pumped for this upcoming season right? NAHHHHHHH. Despite the relatively large margin of victory for my beloved homesquad, there are a few indicators that this upcoming season won't be as great as all us Raps fans want it to be.
Firstly, Andrea Bargnani dropping twenty eight on the Diesel can mean one of a few things. One, he's finally harnessed all his talent and will be bringing the pain all season wrong (unlikely.) Two, he took advantage of a slower, aged defender and had a good night that he otherwise wouldn't have had against any other slew of slightly more mobile opponents (possible, maybe even probable.) Three, and this goes back to last year, consistency. Bargz has almost Dirk like abilities to shoot the rock, and has even shown a propencity for some nice dribble drives to the basket. But his unwillingness to mix it up inside combined with his distinct lack of left/right mobility makes for an unlikely prosepct of a 28ppg average for the season. While he did have a good game, I'm not ready to sign off on him as the centre of the future just yet.
Secondly, Jarett Jack and Hedo Turkoglu are combining to make how much money exactly? Probably way more then they deserve, but that's besides the point. These two overrated free agent signings (as I've been saying since before the season started, and I really hope I'm wrong) combined to put up less points then Chris Bosh, less assists then Jose Calderon and the same number of boards as Lebron James. These guys absolutely should be playing at higher levels then they showed tonight or else the raps are gonna flounder in a division where one misstep puts you behind the Celtics. Demar Derozan was average, going for 8 and 5, but for a young guy without much of a game really except for the run and jump facets really isn't much to complain about. On some positive notes, Bosh was all over the floor tracking down loose balls and Marco Bellinelli was a nice spark off the bench. Overall, not a bad game for the raps, but I'm not buying it. Not yet at least.