Everything 2018 Off Season

[Bonus Jonas]

If we’re trading a key core piece (Lowry, DD, JV, OG), it should only be for a chance at a superstar.

Whether that’s pitching an offer for Kawhi (does DD+OG get it done?).

Or swinging for the fences and trading for a young player with superstar potential (DD for Ingram+Kuz?).

Outside of those situations I’m thoroughly against trading one of those four for the sake of a change.

[Bonus Jonas]

Also, seeing as were getting a new coach, I’d be very annoyed to see JV traded just for the sake of seeing what he could do under different coaching

[slaw]

Welp, there it is. Good luck to Dwane Casey. I hope he finds a great job and has a lot of success. Best coach Raps ever had.

EDIT: But it had to be done. No way he could survive two sweeps in a row against the Cavs. Reminds me of the Rick Carlisle firing in Detroit years ago that no one could understand but it made sense to the organization at the time.

[rocwell]

Time for the Raptors to shake things up? ��@Drake x Will Ferrell pic.twitter.com/EjUHvoTpYv

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 11, 2018

[S.R.]

If we’re trading a key core piece (Lowry, DD, JV, OG), it should only be for a chance at a superstar.

Whether that’s pitching an offer for Kawhi (does DD+OG get it done?).

Or swinging for the fences and trading for a young player with superstar potential (DD for Ingram+Kuz?).

Outside of those situations I’m thoroughly against trading one of those four for the sake of a change.

Kawhi would be huge, but I'd love to be able to keep OG & Siakam. A team with OG/Kawhi/Siakam/JV in the starting 4 has significant potential for now + the near future.

[MixxAOR]

Alright... now it’s Masai Ujiri’s turn to be on the clock and reckon with fixing the rigid, underperforming cap sheet he created.

— Seerat Sohi (@DamianTrillard) May 11, 2018

[Demographic Shift]

If we’re trading a key core piece (Lowry, DD, JV, OG), it should only be for a chance at a superstar.

Whether that’s pitching an offer for Kawhi (does DD+OG get it done?).

Or swinging for the fences and trading for a young player with superstar potential (DD for Ingram+Kuz?).

Outside of those situations I’m thoroughly against trading one of those four for the sake of a change.

I think they trade an older core piece....that was an epic bedshitting and its not all on the coach. One of DD / KL / JV are in play.
If JV goes its for an expiring and futures.
If DD or Kyle go its for help on the wing.

[DanH]

If we’re trading a key core piece (Lowry, DD, JV, OG), it should only be for a chance at a superstar.

Whether that’s pitching an offer for Kawhi (does DD+OG get it done?).

Or swinging for the fences and trading for a young player with superstar potential (DD for Ingram+Kuz?).

Outside of those situations I’m thoroughly against trading one of those four for the sake of a change.

Yep. Lowry and Ibaka and JV won't have the value for that sort of thing.

So it's essentially trading DD+ for an established star, or trading DD for potential (like the Wiggins + picks deal). Going the second way holds no guarantees, but with DeMar's somewhat spotty contributions, might not hurt too much short term while extending the window and possibly raising the long term ceiling.

[planetmars]

Wholy shit! Casey was fired?

[rocwell]

Wholy shit! Casey was fired?

Yup and we found alien life too

[TrueTorontoFan]

If we’re trading a key core piece (Lowry, DD, JV, OG), it should only be for a chance at a superstar.

Whether that’s pitching an offer for Kawhi (does DD+OG get it done?).

Or swinging for the fences and trading for a young player with superstar potential (DD for Ingram+Kuz?).

Outside of those situations I’m thoroughly against trading one of those four for the sake of a change.

if you got ingram would you play him at the 2?? and play OG at the 3?

[Scraptor]

Yup and we found alien life too

Sam Cassell is our new coach? Could be worse I guess.

[Deems]

Sam Cassell is our new coach? Could be worse I guess.

I chuckled.

[S.R.]

Alright... now it’s Masai Ujiri’s turn to be on the clock and reckon with fixing the rigid, underperforming cap sheet he created.

— Seerat Sohi (@DamianTrillard) May 11, 2018

I'm having such a hard time keeping up with the hot takes. Going back a bit I've gathered all of this from Twitter re: the Raptors:

- Masai is a great GM, one of the best in the league. Built a young, talented, deep roster that wins a lot.
- The Raptors suck and collapsed again. Hahahahahahah #LeBronto
- Dwane Casey is a magician who integrated youth with experienced players, developed everybody, and made the team better every year.
- The Raptors core players actually suck.
- The Raptors have a deep, talented, 59 win team that finally modernized its offence, plays top 5 defence, and has a great shot at the Finals.
- The Raptors definitely suck, they got swept again.
- Dwane Casey is good at some things but prone to stuff like drawing up the most important play of the season on the wrong side of the court.
- Dwane Casey was thoroughly outcoached by Ty Lue (lol) in that Cavs series
- OMG WTF DWANE CASEY WAS FIRED?! Talk about scapegoat - we all know the Raptors core actually sucks.
- Masai Ujiri created a shite situation with that there Toronto roster had to fire his coach because he can't trade any of his crappy players.

Does that about sum it up so far?

[rocwell]

Masai on next steps: "We've looked at this thing from top to bottom and we know some of the things we need to do."

— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) May 11, 2018