Butch Carter, meanwhile, was still taking heat.

"I was happy," Butch Carter said, with a grin, "until he missed the shot."

Coach Butch Carter and Davis thought both players got caught up in entertaining the fans.

"My good players must learn there is a proper field goal attempts-to-points ratio," Butch Carter said.

His coach, Butch Carter, kept talking and talking and eventually was fired.

Butch Carter, the Raptors' coach, has been in the most precarious situation.

"Charles has a huge mental playbook of what's supposed to go on," Butch Carter said.

"I think Ewing gets into his head," Butch Carter responded.

But when I talked to people like Butch Carter, who coached him there, we got very good reports back.

"He doesn't have 20 friends from his old neighborhood," said Butch Carter, who is unrelated to his star player.