By RB.com Minister of Disinformation B-Huge.

It's the fourth quarter and the Nuggets are down 2 points. Rodney White is in the game. Obviously the Nuggets lost yet Coach Bzdelik had the gall to say, "We are going to lose games, but tonight the way we lost really disturbed me. We lost respect for the game tonight. There was a lack of concentration and effort."

Coach, if you want to respect the game you probably shouldn't be giving White crunch time minutes. White missed two free throws that could have tied the game at 67 with 8 minutes left. This took the wind out of the Nuggets sails such that they failed to score for another 4 minutes. White also shot the worst airball in recent memory with 15 seconds left that pretty much was the final nail in the coffin for this game.

Leo Rautins will tell you that the Raptors awesome defence hounded the Nuggets into shooting 4 for 21 in the fourth quarter while they only scored 11 points (5 of which came in the two minutes). The real story was that the Nuggets couldn't hit an open jump shot to save their lives. Nene even missed a dunk. The Raptors did rise to the occasion on defence when needed though as Vince Carter blocked two Carmelo Anthony lay-ups in the fourth. Donyell Marshall stood his ground against the much larger Nene. Michael Curry was also on the court playing vicious D (the refs seemed to ignore a couple of Curry's obvious hacks), which might explain why the game remained close in that final period despite the Nuggets woes.

All the Raptors starters had solid games including rookie Chris Bosh. Bosh was invisible in the first half and didn't score a point but he had all 11 of his points in the 3rd quarter as the Raptors surged into a lead they would never relinquish. On the opposite end Anthony had 16 points on 6 of 8 shooting in the first half while only scoring 3 on 1 of 8 in the second. Perhaps at halftime somebody reminded Anthony that he's on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated and that's when the jinx kicked in.