The Parity of Warren G's "Regulate" and Sunday's Raptors Win

Nate Dogg and Warren G: 93 – Brothas Shootin’ Dice: 80

If today’s Raptors game was a rap song, it would probably be “Regulate” by Warren G and Nate Dogg – with G representing the Raptors team and Dogg representing Chris Bosh. The Raptors lost two in a row coming into the game and they get down early to the Rockets, which, for our purposes, is analogous to Warren G wanting to play a dice game with strangers on a street corner and then getting jacked for his “rings and rolex.” But Nate Dogg shows up just in time, and “pulls out (his) strap and lays them bustas down.” Similarly, Bosh returns from a groin injury that sidelined him for six games and contributes 21 points, 10 boards and four blocks (one of which was a late-game, fast-break pin on Tracy McGrady). Unfortunately for the Raptors, the game didn’t end up with them taking hos back to the Eastside Motel, but it did end with a win, putting Toronto fourth in the tenuous Eastern Conference.

But other factors contributed to the win, like:

• Yao Ming and McGrady average a combined 47.7 ppg this year. The Raptors limited them to 38 combined on Sunday.
• The Raptors out-rebounded the Rockets 48-35 (18-8 on the offensive glass).
• Kris Humphries, who, lately, had been playing like Rafael Araujo with advanced osteoporosis, managed 16 points and nine boards in 23 minutes.
  

MoPete Watch: Poor Morris didn’t play in Sunday’s game against Seattle. He’s day-to-day with a strained back.