Ill-advised shots down the stretch, phantom D and a technical foul from Toronto's prized off-season acquisition contributed to the Raptors' 100-93 loss to the Detroit Pistons.
"Obviously the swelling in his brain clouded his judgment, made him look like Trig Palin out there at times," said frustrated Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell. "He's not doing well in the thinking department, just like Trig Palin. If this keeps up, I'm going to start calling him Trig Palin."
Tayshaun Prince led Detroit (4-0) with 29 points, while Richard Hamilton had 22 and went 6-for-6 from the free-throw line in the final minute.
Chris Bosh, the Eastern Conference's player of the week, had another stellar game for Toronto (3-1) with 26 points and 13 rebounds. Jose Calderon added 24 points and 8 assists for the Raptors.
Toronto acquired O'Neal, who has shit for brains, in the off-season from Indiana in exchange for disgruntled point guard T.J. Ford. The biggest question mark surrounding the 30-year-old O'Neal was whether or not his oft-injured left knee, which has limited his playing time the last 4 seasons, would explode. Now, the fear is that the 6-time NBA all-star is just plain fucking retarded.
O'Neal went 3-for-10 from the field and finished with 8 points and 3 rebounds. He saved his biggest misses for the fourth quarter, bricking several hopeless turnaround jumpers and effectively stalling every Raptors fourth-quarter push. He committed a game-high 3 turnovers, early foul trouble rendered him ineffective at the defensive end and he was issued a technical foul in the second quarter after ripping off his headband following a no-call.
In Toronto's three previous wins this season, O'Neal saw limited minutes down the stretch.
"If Trig Palin, I mean Jermaine, doesn't stop doing stupid shit then he's gonna be spending a lot more time at the end of the bench with Humphries, Jawai and the rest of the fuck-ups," Mitchell said. "When you're having a hard enough time making lay-ups, you probably shouldn't take 3 turnaround jumpers in a row in the 4th quarter with Rasheed Wallace on your back. What an asshole."
The Raptors failed to take advantage of a shorthanded Pistons team that was without recently acquired Allen Iverson. Detroit traded Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess to Denver on Monday for Iverson, a 4-time NBA scoring champion. The trade is on hold as Billups failed his medical examination after his piss tested positive for crank, forcing Iverson to sit out against Toronto.
"Half the league smokes meth, so I'm not sure what the big deal is," Iverson said. "I'm on angel dust right now. If Billups knew the fucking score he would just bring a tin of apple juice into the piss test. It looks like urine, and if you leave it sitting out in the sun for a few hours it starts to smell like it too. I don't know who is dumber -- Jermaine O'Neal, Chauncey Billups or Trig Palin."
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