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Apollo wrote: View PostClippers fans are certain he's going there.There's no such thing as a 2nd round bust.
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Superjudge wrote: View PostI was thinnking those two would get along really well actuallyThere's no such thing as a 2nd round bust.
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Kawhi in his prime years is the best players we’ve ever had. We need to do everything to retain this guy.
It will be up to Masai to figure out what is really driving this guy. It can’t be purely endorsements - is it the money, the adoration, the fame? He has championships, personal awards and such, so it seems that it’s largely ego based at this point. And that is something the Raptors can absolutely give him.
National fan base. International connections. MVP chants from game 1. We need this.Heir, Prince of Cambridge
If you see KeonClark in the wasteland, please share your food and water with him.
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KeonClark wrote: View PostYou almost have to because people are acting like we traded Tom Brady or Wayne Gretzky for some flake
I never thought the day the Raptors finally acquired a superstar (and I knew masai would) it would be jeered and spat on and rejected. It's horrible irony.
To think that all it would take to get this hardest of commodities to come by would be some harebrained 4 team tenforthewin trade where we give up shit and wind up with Leonard a 1st round lottery pick and a serious prospect on a rookie deal is ...laughable.
It’s like dad said..you get what you pay for...and to get a player of Leonard’s ability it didn’t come cheap. Trade says as much about Demar as it does about Kawhi.There's no such thing as a 2nd round bust.
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Kyle was one foot out the door when he was traded here, and stayed and ended up loving this City. If we can make Kyle Lowry happy, I'm sure we can make Kawhi Leonard happy.
The problem with the Kawhi saga though is the team he left. It's not like he left Charlotte or Sacramento. He left the San Antonio Spurs. The NBA model franchise for the last couple of decades. He's won championships. He was their best and most impactfull player.
So if he can leave the best run organization in the NBA.. how do you keep him? It's going to be tough to figure this guy out. Of course I'm hoping he stays and falls in love with our city and our people and our team. But I've always been pessimistic about our chances to keep him.
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planetmars wrote: View PostKyle was one foot out the door when he was traded here, and stayed and ended up loving this City. If we can make Kyle Lowry happy, I'm sure we can make Kawhi Leonard happy.
The problem with the Kawhi saga though is the team he left. It's not like he left Charlotte or Sacramento. He left the San Antonio Spurs. The NBA model franchise for the last couple of decades. He's won championships. He was their best and most impactfull player.
So if he can leave the best run organization in the NBA.. how do you keep him? It's going to be tough to figure this guy out. Of course I'm hoping he stays and falls in love with our city and our people and our team. But I've always been pessimistic about our chances to keep him.
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golden wrote: View PostAnd what kept Kyle in Toronto was winning. But this team has to win way bigger because Kawhi already has a chip, so even that isn't going to overly impress him. Raps have to get to the Finals and at least make it interesting. A TON of pressure on Nick Nurse to be as innovative as he says he is. Nurse is my biggest concern, tbh.
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Shaolin Fantastic wrote: View PostYeah very worried about Nurse. People are acting like they know he's a great coach but we haven't actually seen him at the NBA level yet. Head coaching in the NBA is somewhat of a crapshoot and it's really hard to tell if a guy is going to be good or not (or even how to determine whether it's the coach that's good or just the roster). I was listening to Morey talk about this, and he basically said that there's almost zero analytical basis/model to use for determining coaching ability at the NBA level.Only one thing matters: We The Champs.
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