Everything VanVleet

[Maury]

Everything VanVleet

I never said that though. I never said they lost this game because VV did not play. What i said was, is anyone still doubting thay he's one of the Raps most important players.

You’re implying that he is our 3rd or 4th best player and I for one don’t think that’s the truth. I think his value is in his shot making, leadership, and steadying nature on the bench. But he couldn’t do what he does if not for the strong defensive back line in Poeltl and Siakam in tandem with probably our best guard defender in Delon minimizing their own individual matchups. Offensively, he needs delon and Pascal as release valves and he needs CJ to be a magnet that attracts basically the entire focus of the opposing defence. Now they all need Fred’s steadiness and 3pt shooting/ball handing too. So you take out any of the guys off the bench and we will suffer.

IMO Delon and Pascal are both better prospects than Fred, especially pascal. OG as well. So you’re trying to say that Fred is our best young guy and I really don’t think that’s the case.

[KeonClark]

You’re implying that he is our 3rd or 4th best player and I for one don’t think that’s the truth. I think his value is in his shot making, leadership, and steadying nature on the bench. But he couldn’t do what he does if not for the strong defensive back line in Poeltl and Siakam in tandem with probably our best guard defender in Delon minimizing their own individual matchups. Offensively, he needs delon and Pascal as release valves and he needs CJ to be a magnet that attracts basically the entire focus of the opposing defence. Now they all need Fred’s steadiness and 3pt shooting/ball handing too. So you take out any of the guys off the bench and we will suffer.

IMO Delon and Pascal are both better prospects than Fred, especially pascal. OG as well. So you’re trying to say that Fred is our best young guy and I really don’t think that’s the case.

Basically the bench is voltron


Fred is body. CJ and delon are arms. Pascal and Jakob are legs

[The Claw Reborn]

Basically the bench is voltron


Fred is body. CJ and delon are arms. Pascal and Jakob are legs

Headless Voltron running around ?

[KeonClark]

Headless Voltron running around ?

Head and body = fred

[DanH]

I never said that though. I never said they lost this game because VV did not play. What i said was, is anyone still doubting thay he's one of the Raps most important players.

Oh, then, yes. I am doubting that he is any more important than most of the other bench pieces.

[The Great One]

VanVleet is the 4th best player on this team. 4th behind DeRozan, Lowry and Valanciunas.

[Sonny]

VanVleet is the 4th best player on this team. 4th behind DeRozan, Lowry and Valanciunas.

IMHO:

DeRozan
Lowry
JV
VanVleet
Ibaka

[Sonny]

VanVleet is the 4th best player on this team. 4th behind DeRozan, Lowry and Valanciunas.

x100

[Sonny]

Basically the bench is voltron


Fred is body. CJ and delon are arms. Pascal and Jakob are legs

I miss that show lol.

[DanH]

VanVleet is the 4th best player on this team. 4th behind DeRozan, Lowry and Valanciunas.

Meh. He's essentially tied for 5th-8th with Wright, Poeltl, and Pascal. I'd put Ibaka ahead of them even with all his inconsistencies. Miles slightly behind. He's far better than I thought he was, that's for sure.

[NeedTristanThompson]

Anyone still doubt that he's one of our most important players?

Is Freddie boy our third option? That Ibaka was supposed to be? If not all the time, what about in crunch time? For examples see new year's day against bucks, recent most amazing incredible pistons game

[Cody73]

Freddy got a high 5 from Bron.

[Rudy Bargnani]

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— William Lou (@william_lou) March 24, 2018

[Scraptor]

I read through Zach Lowe's lengthy annual Luke Walton All Stars piece (standout role players), getting more and more irritated about not seeing Fred, till I got to the very end:

Fred VanVleet, Toronto Raptors

Let's just say we're going to have more on VanVleet in our end-of-year awards column.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...-all-stars-nba

Can't wait. Fred has got to be one of the best feel-good stories in the NBA (or at least for the Raptors) over the past few years.

[Jclaw]

I read through Zach Lowe's lengthy annual Luke Walton All Stars piece (standout role players), getting more and more irritated about not seeing Fred, till I got to the very end:



http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...-all-stars-nba

Can't wait. Fred has got to be one of the best feel-good stories in the NBA (or at least for the Raptors) over the past few years.

I was about to revoke Lowe's pseudo Canadian status until I got to that last line. Well played. For sure he knew he was trolling us the whole column. The 2017/8 Raptors are the Luke Walton Allstars