Mitchell Rips Into Raptors

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Toronto Star - In what had to make him feel like he was reliving a nightmare, Sam Mitchell watched his Raptors hammered on the boards last night as they were so many nights a season ago, and he lit into his players afterwards because he's not going to watch them drilled on the boards without making his point.

Forget that it was a meaningless exhibition game with a makeshift team on the court most of the night. The fact the Raptors were outrebounded 54-37 by the Utah Jazz in a 102-101 overtime loss made the second-year coach irate.

"Hopefully, someone's walking around Canada or the U.S. who wants a job," Mitchell said after his team lost a gaffe-filled affair that featured 77 fouls and 55 turnovers and resembled a bad summer league game at times.

"It blows my mind."

The Raptors lost on a Robert Whaley tip with less than a second left in overtime and despite the fact Toronto had a small lineup — gaurds Tierre Brown, Robert Pack and Jose Calderon, along with Charlie Villanueva and Aaron Williams — on the floor, Mitchell wasn't going to accept lack of size as a reason for not getting the missed shot.

"I don't know of one skill for that, other than toughness," he said. "You've just got to want it more."

And if no one does, Mitchell's hanging the Help Wanted sign out.

"Maybe we just don't have a guy who can do that, maybe we have to start searching high and low to try to find a guy who can rebound," he said. "All I know is this: If you're a big guy and want to get a job, want to play defence and rebound ... "

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Shawn Bradley in Canada?

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