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psrs1 wrote: View PostIt amazes me how many mid-late first round guys come out of relative obscurity to become nba studs.....and how many high first rounders fail. Certainly there can be franchise changers but they are few and far between. You look at a guy like Leonard on the Spurs and say I would love to have him on our team. Finding these guys that will pan out is the key. Hopefully UM is the guy who can find these guys. I think you need some baseline level of talent before you can take a bigger step up in the standings via the draft. Blowing up your whole team leads to pieces that often don't complement each other and further changes. I would like to see 41 wins this year then find that hidden gem in the draft .
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Karl Marx. wrote: View PostI do not want to start normative argument on should we rebuild or not. We are rebuilding and that is reality. And since that is our direction, it is obvious that Masai has made a huge mistake by not trading Gay to Detroit when he had a chance. He felt that he would get more, he passed on Detroit offer and now, given how badly Gay is playing, it is obvious that we will never get a better offer.
Gay is not good enough to help us move forward, but is good enough to help us will enough games to avoid having a good draft pick in the following years. Not to mention the fact that his minutes as well as touches he is getting are preventing young prospects such as Ross to develop their game.
Not to mention the fact that Masai decided to keep Casey who we all know is a bad coach. With that in mind, it is clear that so far Masai have failed.
Raptors are fortunate to finally have a GM that doesn't panic and trade away assets for scrap - thus finally breaking the cycle of futility this team has been stuck in. Detroit will give a lot more for Gay in Jan/Feb than they would have in Aug/Sept and Ujiri will likely have more & better options then if he still wants to do a deal.
It's good to actually have a GM on board who has been in this situation before and came out the big winner
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brothersteve wrote: View PostRaptors are fortunate to finally have a GM that doesn't panic and trade away assets for scrap - thus finally breaking the cycle of futility this team has been stuck in. Detroit will give a lot more for Gay in Jan/Feb than they would have in Aug/Sept and Ujiri will likely have more & better options then if he still wants to do a deal.
It's good to actually have a GM on board who has been in this situation before and came out the big winner
And when we talk about Masai and his success in Denver, other than trading Anthony for solid players that were made to look better than they are by coach Karl, what exactly did he do?
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brothersteve wrote: View PostRaptors are fortunate to finally have a GM that doesn't panic and trade away assets for scrap - thus finally breaking the cycle of futility this team has been stuck in. Detroit will give a lot more for Gay in Jan/Feb than they would have in Aug/Sept and Ujiri will likely have more & better options then if he still wants to do a deal.
It's good to actually have a GM on board who has been in this situation before and came out the big winner
Over the past four lottery-bound seasons, the Raptors have watched helplessly as key injuries have impacted the roster and the team didn’t have sufficient depth to keep their season from imploding.
Injuries. Injuries have decimated this team over the past 4 seasons
While they can’t go back, with a few changes next season, the Raptors plan on following a healthy Bargnani into the playoffs.
If Colangelo has proven anything over the past seven years, it is that he can make dealsthe outright firing of Colangelo would make little sense
A trade like the one: Lowry for a draft pick – they just don’t come along all that often.Gay moves the Raps up another significant step towards challenging the big boys
If you want a good comparison, Paul George is becoming what Rudy Gay is now
but there were a lot of senior NBA analysts who thought the Raptors could have been a top four team in the East last season if they had Rudy Gay from day one. That’s a little overly optimistic – but not crazy either
and here I was thinking Colangelo was good at making deals, and it was injuries and a lack of continuity that was this teams problems....
.... amazing how much changes when the guy in charge is no longer around!!!
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