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It's not lack of patience. It's looking at the present team and deciding whose development can you wait for and whose development does not match the available window for success for the team. This isn't the Celtics (who I love, and has a much wider window than the Raps). This isn't the Sixers (whose window hasn't even opened up yet). This is a team that has hit its stride during a downturn in its conference (which is improving rapidly) and whose most important player is its oldest starter.
I refuse to imagine anything, because I don't have to. I can look at his progress beside other similar players and look at his rate of improvement. His D League play was atrocious. His second Summer League he played at the level of a slightly above average Summer League rookie (which marked significant growth for him, but not for a first round draft pick).
There's also an incredibly long and embarrassing history of the Raptors drafting players, developing them and then having them move to other teams in the NBA and/or Europe.
"If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it."
His contract jumps to $2 mill in 2 seasons and I believe a cap hold of 3 the next year. For what? What does Bruno provide that a smart scout couldn't find in the French pro league, for the league minimum?
Fans can't demand playoff improvement on one end and then have prospects that shouldn't play even 5 minutes on a legit playoff team on the other.
I don't care where players come from. I came from an island 20 square miles and I played at a time that 5 kids got division 1 scholarships, a bunch of guys played CIS and division 2 and 3. All those guys had more tools than this guy has. No one thought they were NBA players (rightfully so) but they were found and scouted. Being from Brazil and having zero BBIQ is not a valid excuse.
Sadly, now its all about potential. People get sold on things that have nothing to do with basketball. Masai can take advantage of that, develop the kid enough to turn him into fools gold, or he can keep him and be fooled himself.
The Raps last GM lost his job because he held on to an enigma for too long at too much money. You would think that people here would have learned from that.
I refuse to imagine anything, because I don't have to. I can look at his progress beside other similar players and look at his rate of improvement. His D League play was atrocious. His second Summer League he played at the level of a slightly above average Summer League rookie (which marked significant growth for him, but not for a first round draft pick).
There's also an incredibly long and embarrassing history of the Raptors drafting players, developing them and then having them move to other teams in the NBA and/or Europe.
"If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it."
His contract jumps to $2 mill in 2 seasons and I believe a cap hold of 3 the next year. For what? What does Bruno provide that a smart scout couldn't find in the French pro league, for the league minimum?
Fans can't demand playoff improvement on one end and then have prospects that shouldn't play even 5 minutes on a legit playoff team on the other.
I don't care where players come from. I came from an island 20 square miles and I played at a time that 5 kids got division 1 scholarships, a bunch of guys played CIS and division 2 and 3. All those guys had more tools than this guy has. No one thought they were NBA players (rightfully so) but they were found and scouted. Being from Brazil and having zero BBIQ is not a valid excuse.
Sadly, now its all about potential. People get sold on things that have nothing to do with basketball. Masai can take advantage of that, develop the kid enough to turn him into fools gold, or he can keep him and be fooled himself.
The Raps last GM lost his job because he held on to an enigma for too long at too much money. You would think that people here would have learned from that.
Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways 
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