2008-09 Toronto Raptors Real Player Ratings From the 2007-08 Regular Season

EDITORIAL NOTES FOLLOW

This was done when I was thinking seriously of continuing to cover just one team, and of switching from the Nuggets to the Raptors...

RAPTORS REAL PLAYER RATINGS-2007-08 Regular Season
The Numbers in front are the NBA ranks out of the best 330 players in the NBA

16 Chris Bosh, Tor PF 1.036
38 Jose Calderon, Tor PG 0.914
55 Jermaine O'Neal, Tor C 0.868
109 Kris Humphries, Tor C 0.782
163 Jamario Moon, Tor SF 0.705
176 Carlos Delfino, Tor SG 0.694
199 Anthony Parker, Tor SG 0.676
221 Joey Graham, Tor SF 0.655
228 Andrea Bargnani, Tor PF 0.647
314 Jason Kapono, Tor SF 0.561

Jawai and Ukic are rookies and have no ratings yet. Brezec did not play in enough games to be rated.
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EDITORIAL INFORMATION
This is more forum commentary I did during July 2008, when I didn't have time to do the detailed and extensive reports that I like to do, All commentary until just before the Camby giveaway in July 2008 was already posted in October. The remaining forum commentary not yet here is being posted now.

The posting of my original content on a forum before it is posted on this site will never happen again. Even if my time temporarily becomes limited so that I can't do full reports for a few weeks, I now do Fast Break postings on this site, and these are going to be the same thing as any forum postings I do. I will combine extremely short forum comments into a single Fast Break, which will be from now on immediately be posted here.

In turn, Full Reports will include all fast breaks, which will be reedited and substantially added to.

In these comments, and in future Fast Break writings, do not look for the usual huge amount of detail and proof that you see in a full report here at The Quest for the Ring. Some of this is more like everyday conversation than like top quality sports writing. On the other hand, some of the comments do include some detailed reasoning and proof that I pride myself on in the regular reports.

Editorial Note: Please be aware that a "Fast Break" is a short and quick preview of some of the topics that will be explored and proved in more detail in upcoming regular reports. Fast Breaks will often reappear in full reports with only minor reediting, but there will be more important details, more evidence, and more implications and explanations in the full reports. Moreover, there will be topics that never appear in any Fast Break in a full Report.

Fast Breaks are especially useful for the first few days after major news breaks. They are also very useful for people who will seldom or never have enough time to read a full Game/Team/League Report. Fast Breaks are the type of article that more typical web logs feature almost all or all of the time.