"Bench Mob" is a bit macho-aggressive for 2022 and beyond, plus the alliterative Bench Beauties can and should be be used by Matt and Jack for individual plays "and another Bench Beauty from Boucher!!!" but I digress - what I really want to talk about is just how good this incarnation of the Raptor bench might be. We've had some really good benches in our history but I've got a sneaking suspicion this might be our best yet. One strike against it is that its also paired with one of the best starting 5s we've had but let's not get into handicapping just yet.
There are guys on the projected third unit this year - Champagnie, Banton, Malachi, Koloko, Birch - that I would have been creaming my pants to have coming off the bench in many years gone by (and some yikes years they would have been starting). But it's second unit that is just so built for success built around the veteran combo of Young and Porter (and Trent?).
Bottomline, I'm excited.
(also open to other name suggestions we can try to get on the air)
There are guys on the projected third unit this year - Champagnie, Banton, Malachi, Koloko, Birch - that I would have been creaming my pants to have coming off the bench in many years gone by (and some yikes years they would have been starting). But it's second unit that is just so built for success built around the veteran combo of Young and Porter (and Trent?).
Bottomline, I'm excited.
(also open to other name suggestions we can try to get on the air)
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