By Andy Charles

That’s about all I can come up with in the wake of the heart-breaking end to the season, the early end to the season that no-one was really even considering just a short couple of months ago.

Everything came to a juddering halt on Wednesday when the inevitable, as it had become, finally came true thanks to the Charlotte Bobcats’ inability to beat those darned Chicago Bulls we had been forced to follow over the last few weeks.

It is going to be hard to watch the playoffs but to be honest I’d rather do that than contemplate what the future is going to look like for the Raptors because NBA Betting experts agree that things just look bad…really bad.

I’m usually a glass-half-full kind of guy, but these last three months have been so painful; looking at a team lost on the defensive boards, struggling whenever its star player is absent and apparently ready to lose that star player in the summer.

Everything went wrong that possibly could, up to and including Chris Bosh’s season-ending facial injury, and in fact it was only on the final two days of the season that the offense which had taken the team so far until January.

That win over the Knicks was fun to watch, and it did prove there is a little depth to the roster, but Toronto will not be scoring 73 points in every first-half, and not every team that turns up next season is going to be defending about as well as the Blue Jays might if they were on court instead.

Luckily the roster churn this summer might be limited, but the impact of losing Bosh would be almost impossible to overcome without at least one season of complete rebuilding. Antoine Wright is probably gone, and there is a chance Marco Belinelli follows him, but apart from that, well most of the squad should stay.

Bosh leaving would mean salary cap room, of course, but what is the real benefit of moving to Toronto to join a roster with no star power and the same handcuffs on that Bosh complains about – no big additions, no pushing for titles by going over the cap and spending some money.

I’d love to see a couple of stars on the roster to boost the teams NBA Odds for the 2010-11 season, but will it happen…I’m not holding my breath!!

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