Raptors Game Day-Pre Season Edition

First thing is first there is no TV for this game. But I did track down a Cleveland Radio Station that is covering the game so here is the link in case you missed it yesterday:

Cleveland Radio Station carrying Raptors vs Cavs Tomorrow (NOT AVILABLE IN CANADA READ BELOW)

IMPORTANT UPDATE

( Thanks To Rob He happened To Try The Link and It Does Not Work Here In Canada To Get The Web Feed, This Sucks But thanks to Rob For Thinking Ahead and Checking This Out)

But Hope is not lost Dino Nation. If you have an Account on NBA.Com. The same one you would need to be in our fantasy leagues. They are having Audio of All Preseason Games For Free:

Link To NBA.Com Audio Feed

Now I am happy to say that the Dino Nation Blog has done a lot of growing over the summer. So some of you may not be aware of what the Dino Nation Blog does for Raptor games as far as coverage. So for every Raptor game we do what we call around here the Raptor Rewind. Which is a complete re-cap written by yours truly and it also includes a podcast from me with my thoughts on the game and what is to come. But new for this season I am going to try to have pre-game chats as well so come talk about your thoughts before the game with us. Just use the link on main page to our live chat.

Speaking of Chats

I want to thank the folks that came out last night for our chat night. I enjoy these things no matter how many folks show up for them. I like to hear what you folks are thinking be it through your e-mails, comments or as part of these chat events. So keep up the good work in that regard and I will always do my best to respond to you the loyal readers of this blog.

The Match-Up

Cleveland is also playing there first game of the pre-season. Cavs fans are excited to see just what Mo Williams can do as the starting point guard in Cleveland. While Raptor fans want to see J.O and CB4 and what the duo can get done. But also there will be a lot of interest in Andrea Bargnani through out this pre-season to see what he can get done. In a pre-season game and a first one at that it is not likely we will get to see much of anything that will provide answers. However for someone like Roko Ukic this will be very important for him to build up his understanding of the NBA game. He will need to develop at a faster rate than Jose Calderon did in his first year. The thought is that Will Solomon will fill the gap until Ukic is ready to handle back-up point guard minutes. This would also have been a good time for Nathan Jawai to be gaining experience but he is on the sidelines and we all wait to hear the results from his doctors visit on Friday. Doug Smith suggested we may know something as early as Thursday. Which will mean no Nathan vs the Cavs and Knicks at least.

No T.V Till Wednesday

Raptors T.V has been taking a rough ride from this blog and a lot of hardcore Raptor Fans. I am not going to defend that because I think they need to listen to their subscribers like me. But they will have all 5 home dates including Edmonton so that is something for those of you with Raptors TV that want to see this team on the floor. The Raptors our also heading out to L.A for a mini tournament and we may get the NBA TV feed for those games as well. That has yet to be confirmed for now Raps TV is only saying about the 5 home dates.

Happy To Be Back At It

It has been a long summer and I hope I have done a good job in taking you from Game 5 in Orlando to this point. It is a great challenge on some days during the summer to find things to talk about, but day after day I was able to come up with something. It was not always easy but I think I was able to do a respectable job. But the time for games is here again and games that matter are only 20 days away from today. That is exciting and I can’t wait to get this season rolling.

So check back on Dino Nation Blog tonight for my Raptor Rewind Re-cap of the Cavs and Raptors. It is time to play the game as HHH says so well in the WWE.

One Last Thing…Tell Me if This Sounds Familiar.

Raptors.com did what I did about a week ago. They interviewed Lexi Haslam. To see how Lexi is fitting in with the Dance Pak you can check out this video from the Dance Pak and there photo shoot and a bit of an interview with Lexi that will SOUND VERY DE JA VU for readers of Dino Nation Blog:

Lexi Haslam Dance Pak on Raps.com

Tags: Andrea Bargnani, Chris Bosh, Jermaine O'Neal, Lexi Haslam, Mo Williams, Nathan Jawai, Radio Coverage Of Raps vs Cavs, Raps TV, Raptors vs Cavs, Roko Ukic, Will Solomon