A few things...
1 - I don't blame either Jose or Lowry. I blame Colangelo and Casey, in that order. The players don't make the decisions about how to construct the team or who gets playing time (insert Miami joke here).
2 - I do believe Jose would make a good team that already had a functioning offense and players/schemes that create high-quality shots worse. If you had more capable facilitators and individual scorers, and you put Jose into that lineup, his passing becomes a luxury rather than a need, and his defense limitations become more relevant to his value.
Thus, it's not a question of "blame", it's "how would I construct a winning team going forward?". I believe there are more paths to a winning team with Lowry than Jose; the latter has a ceiling of "average" before he becomes a player that should definitely be coming off the bench. The former has already led a team in a tougher conference to an above .500 record, and as Lowe was talking about, has a much larger toolbox to utilize. The fact that the Toronto team around him is a poor fit isn't a reason to give up on Lowry. It's a reason to give up on a number of the other players around him (especially the non-shooting wings).
Certainly the Raptors don't need both given their other needs.
1 - I don't blame either Jose or Lowry. I blame Colangelo and Casey, in that order. The players don't make the decisions about how to construct the team or who gets playing time (insert Miami joke here).
2 - I do believe Jose would make a good team that already had a functioning offense and players/schemes that create high-quality shots worse. If you had more capable facilitators and individual scorers, and you put Jose into that lineup, his passing becomes a luxury rather than a need, and his defense limitations become more relevant to his value.
Thus, it's not a question of "blame", it's "how would I construct a winning team going forward?". I believe there are more paths to a winning team with Lowry than Jose; the latter has a ceiling of "average" before he becomes a player that should definitely be coming off the bench. The former has already led a team in a tougher conference to an above .500 record, and as Lowe was talking about, has a much larger toolbox to utilize. The fact that the Toronto team around him is a poor fit isn't a reason to give up on Lowry. It's a reason to give up on a number of the other players around him (especially the non-shooting wings).
Certainly the Raptors don't need both given their other needs.
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