The Ex-Number 15

Now Shinda Singh continues to show support for Vince Carter and I for one can not and will not stand for it. Since he’s my boy I ain’t about to pick up a sword or a gun and shoot the man, I’m going to fight him with what I have, my keyboard.

Now Shinda says,

So apart from the coaching staff, and upper management and their lack of direction or focus what more could a player who wants to go somewhere do? What is the point in trying, when you’re surrounded by a franchise who had no vision or goal for success?

Now I considered what he was saying but then a particular player comes to mind, Pau Gasol. Let’s use him as an example because his situation is very similar to the one that Carter faced here in the T-Dot.

So check it, Pau is a legit star in the NBA (obviously not as a big star Carter was in Toronto) and he’s dropping 20points and just over 9boards a game this season after being injured early on. The franchise, Memphis Grizzlies, have no sense of direction as they fired a great mind in Mike Fartello and were sold to a group but then unsold because of some contractual issues. Their long time GM & VP Jerry West is rumoured to be leaving Memphis after this season and the owner himself wants to sell the team. Now when Vince was here, he had a similar situation with the coaches as we had our share of them but in the earlier years we had a constant GM in Grunwald and the franchise wasn’t about to be sold and there were never any rumours of selling. Now Pau Gasol has been playing at a high level even though he asked for a trade and has not quit on his team even though they are in the basement in the Western Conference.

Vince went down, got up but unlike D-Wade he didn’t get up every time after he fell down. He fell down and he stayed down. Pau Gasol comes back from an injury and he continues to do what he does best and that is play basketball. And you’re right Shinda, it is a TEAM game and Pau Gasol certainly doesn’t have any other superstar or star with him but you don’t hear him complaining. You don’t see him giving up on his team. So don’t make excuses that it’s the franchises fault or that it was the coaches and the upper management. He quit on the Raptors, he quit on the fans and he quit on people like us.

I still give respect to the man because he did indeed put the Toronto Raptors on the map. He put us on the map and then he cried and whined and got his way and left the city. We became the laughing stock of the league as fast as Vince put us on the map in the first place. I don’t forgive Carter and I don’t think I ever could. I’ll boo him every time he comes to Toronto until he publically apologizes to the city, the fans and the franchise and publically admits that he was wrong and that he quit on the team, he quit on the city and he quit on the fans. But even then I don’t know if I could truly stop hating Carter.

And I don’t know how people can cheer for Vince “Pwassy Boy” Carter. We should boo him every time he touches the ball because recently he has been rattled by our boos. He’s been rattled because he never thought that we would keep hating on him for this long. He’s become jealous of the Raptors success, jealous of CB4’s success and I, along with many other Raptor fans are loving every single second of it.

We’re all going to keep continue chanting the following even if Shinda Singh doesn’t wanna join in.

Carter Sucks! Carter Sucks! Carter Sucks!

The way I see it and the way the Raptor Nation sees it, If you ain’t with us, you’re against us!