Do the Raps have a shot at Kevin Love? Wouldya?

[Abbas]

Love alone would cost at least 17.5m

love for 16.5m and Tyler for 1

amir for 7.5 pat for 6

[GuiJaeger]

I would absolutely have Love on Toronto. Provided he wanted to come here in free agency. And he probably won't want to.

[charlesnba23]

In no world you don't take this guy on the squad

[TheWaterboy]

The problem with trying to sign Kevin Love (aside from the fact that there's no way that a player that self-absorbed and prickly goes to a place, rightly or wrongly, he'd consider to be the boonies) is that he would exacerbate our current problems.

We already have Greivis and Sweet Lou who jack up shots and play defence irregularly, and it has cost us in multiple games. If TRex's myopic JV hate - uh, make that his triumphant correct application of the eye test over the rest of the board - is to be believed, Love's frontcourt mate is a total defensive non-factor as well. If our starting frontcourt and our reserve backcourt are both fundamentally flawed defensively, we're going to have to consistently score prolifically just to cover our exposed shortcomings. And if JV fails to get frontcourt touches when our backcourt stars are trying to shoot themselves out of slumps, there is no guarantee Love is going to get them either, meaning that there's no guarantee Love is the antidote to those games we've been having where the defense isn't communicating and/or executing and the offense goes into hero ball mode.

The player from the Cavs that we want to try to sign in the offseason is Tristan Thompson. He's not a prolific scorer like love is, but he'll shore up our defense and rebounding without demanding the number of touches on offense that Love will. He fits our young-with-untapped-upside mode of player acquisition, and if I remember right, he came to the square to watch the Raptors in the playoffs last year, so there's a reasonable chance he'd sign an offer sheet from us.

This team with consistency should start looking appealing to free agents very soon (a la Houston of late). A young, developing frontcourt with JV, Patterson, and Thompson plus someone to hold down the Center position when JV is off the court would go a long way towards providing this team with consistency, and would allow us to focus on figuring out the conundrum of how to balance out our backcourt.

[Uncle_Si]

Oh fuck.

So you mean.... getting an allstar, olympian in his prime, One that averages an amazingly high double double and is money all they way out to 25 feet, is ok by you?

Just as long as you don't have to send ANYTHING back the other way, or pay him what he's worth.

got it.


good talk.

Inflated stats on a shit team and doesn't play defence. Last thing this team needs.

He doesn't even play 4th quarters for the Cavs.

PASS!

[psrs1]

I actually wouldn't mind taking a flyer on David Lee. His trade value couldn't be lower, and it's a nice fat expiring contract in the summer of 2016 (keeping Masai's plan in tact).

I realize he's anything but a defensive stud, but he's got very good offensive skills. And the winning mentality from Golden State might rub off on some guys.

I agree. Especially if we do not bring back Amir. He can play the 4 and score though defensively lacking. If the price is right....

[jonzab]

nope, overrated, all he did was pad stats on a bad team

[charlesnba23]

nope, overrated, all he did was pad stats on a bad team

Yep that's why he's still averaging 17 and 10 on a team with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving on it

[Mindlessness]

Yep that's why he's still averaging 17 and 10 on a team with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving on it

Yeah no seriously. The man's averaging 17 and 10 as the 3rd option on offense. He would be averaging 20/10 if he was given the chance and quite easily. Literally every single analyst has pointed out that while the Cavs are doing very well, they still haven't been using Love to his best. Not even close, and yet, 17/10.

[tDotted]

Yeah no seriously. The man's averaging 17 and 10 as the 3rd option on offense. He would be averaging 20/10 if he was given the chance and quite easily. Literally every single analyst has pointed out that while the Cavs are doing very well, they still haven't been using Love to his best. Not even close, and yet, 17/10.

David Lee averaged 18 and 9 last year as the third option. Let's go get him too.

[raptors999]

Yeah no seriously. The man's averaging 17 and 10 as the 3rd option on offense. He would be averaging 20/10 if he was given the chance and quite easily. Literally every single analyst has pointed out that while the Cavs are doing very well, they still haven't been using Love to his best. Not even close, and yet, 17/10.

He would average 20/10+ as a first option and the team would .500 or below. As a third option and on the bench in the fourth he's going to the playoffs

[Abbas]

He would average 20/10+ as a first option and the team would .500 or below. As a third option and on the bench in the fourth he's going to the playoffs

Minnesota was 40-42 (17-13 against east) last year with Love averaging 26.1/12.5/4.4 38% from 3

Now if you put minnesota in the east last year his team would probably at 47 to 51 wins.

And If you put Kevin Love on a team with Lowry/DeRozan/JV JJ as the best defender and a decent bench, the team would probably win about 53-57 games and that will make the RAPTORS a strong contender in the EAST

Yes Klove will be the first option but it wont be like Minnesota. it will be evened out cause of the players around him (demar, lowry and next year probably JV)

[DanH]

Minnesota was only .500 last year because of their terrible bench. With Love on the court, they had the point differential of a 50+ win team.

[raptors999]

Minnesota was only .500 last year because of their terrible bench. With Love on the court, they had the point differential of a 50+ win team.

Rubio was a big part of that. Splits with Rubio on/off were bad

[Mindlessness]

Rubio was a big part of that. Splits with Rubio on/off were bad

No duh, a good player has good splits on a team with no bench.