"Toronto's effort and performance were nothing short of disgraceful. The Knicks scored the game's first nine points, went ahead 30-15 and had 42 points in the first quarter. Their lead was 30 in the first half and 75-49 at halftime. In the third quarter, the lead was 38. It made you wonder why the Raptors even bothered to make the trip? The other pertinent question is, what is all the fuss about with Chris Bosh? The Raptors' All-Star power forward will be a free agent in 2010 and is often linked to the best of that class - LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

But Bosh, playing with a sprained right knee, has already shown that he is fragile. Plus, it's hard to call him an elite player when the Raptors are 21-36. Bosh finished with 12 points - on 4-for-13 shooting - and nine rebounds."

On basketball's biggest stage, the Raps stunk it up.

This was by far the ugliest game to date from the Raptors, and the Raptors have had their fair share of ugly games. I gave the Raptors a break in their last game against the Cavs because a) they didn't have Bosh, b) they had new players in their rotation and c) it was Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the Raps had no excuse tonight except that they showed no effort at all against New York.

If you checked in midway in the fourth quarter you would see this. Marcus Banks, Roko Ukic, Jason Kapono, Nathan Jawai and Patrick O'Bryant on the floor for the Raps. That's how bad it was. O'Bryant, Jawai and Banks have scored 92 points combined this season. That's like an average of 0.5 ppg.