The anger started building in the first half last night when his team stunk the joint out and nearly boiled over 90 seconds into the third quarter when Sam Mitchell had had enough and pulled Mike James, Jalen Rose and Morris Peterson from the game for a spurt of indifferent play.

It became even more intense a minute or two later when the second of two straight thundering dunks by Jason Richardson ripped through the basket and Mitchell really got ticked off.

He and assistant coach Jim Todd had practically leapt from their seats, screamed first at Rafael Araujo and anyone else who was going to listen to them, fed up as they were with the team's worst performance of a terrible season.

Mitchell knows he has to get Chris Bosh more involved than he was.

"It's on everybody," said Mitchell. "It's on me, it's on Chris, it's on the players on the court to recognize out there where Chris is and try to get him the basketball."