Andrea Bargnani and Kris Humphries Shine Early

 By RaptorTalk:

Training Camp has wrapped up in Ottawa and the big story out of the Nation's Capital is the vastly improved play of Andrea Bargnani and Kris Humphries.

Both players are noticably bigger, stronger and quicker after an off-season training regimen which seems to have paid big dividends. Not only is Andrea scoring, but he's doing some of the dirty work you expect of a big.

Playing alongside Chris Bosh and Jermaine O'Neal, the Raptors could very have the East's most formidable frontcourt if things play out well. 

      

Its too early to make bold predictions, so we'll wait to actually see these guys play a few exhibition games. Certainly Sam Mitchell seems to believe he's got some intriguing pieces to work with:

"The perfect world would be having Chris and Andrea at different times on the court because both of those guys can go outside and Hump and Jermaine can go inside.

"But you know what? I think there’s going to be nights when we play Hump and Jermaine together. And we’ve already played Chris and Andrea together … they’ve started and played games together. So it’s not going to matter.

"The perfect scenario for me (would be) to try to make sure we always have one big out there who can shoot and another big down there that can play in the paint and rebound and do the tough stuff.

"But if you look, Andrea’s down there doing the tough stuff. As one of my coach says, he’s going where it hurts now.”



 

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