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[DanH]

Hard to imagine the 76ers would trade Simmons. And if they did, they'd want a piece like Siakam, not a piece like Lowry, in return.

At the...

[DanH]

I'd personally hope that with even fewer scorers this year, we see Lowry and Pascal rotated to cover all 48 minutes. Means big minutes for Pascal, gives...

[DanH]

Exhibit 10?

But even with the 2-ways and Exhibit 10s taken into account, with Payne they are now at 16 contracts that don't fall into those...

[DanH]

We can be as optimistic as we like, but let's not pretend it wouldn't be absolutely shocking to see Payne contribute positively.

Payne ranked...

[DanH]

I think Marner ends up taking a bridge deal for 2-3 years, and it comes in well under 10M. But that's a complete guess, hard to predict these agents......

[DanH]

Probably not good, per se. But probably also not "Cam Payne bad" either....

[DanH]

Starting to squeeze Powell, OG, SJ, RHJ and Thomas for minutes then... And OMG if Cameron Payne is playing steady minutes off the bench we are going...

[DanH]

I suspect Jordan Loyd still holds that spot.

Maybe the Jeremy Lin/Lorenzo Brown spot. Which you may or may not recall was a source of great...

[DanH]

Needed? We have Loyd, who should be getting a bigger role than last year, and Davis, who is a combo guard but would do fine in that third PG spot. We...

[DanH]

Really odd signing. He's really not good.

All the signings so far have lacked any sort of obvious cohesive plan to them. But the rest were...

[DanH]

I think it has a big guarantee on it, like Lorenzo Brown's contract had. Unlikely to lose a training camp battle with a contract like that, though it...

[DanH]

I do think Pascal will struggle and we'll see his efficiency dip. But that there are so few scoring options on the team right now that he'll probably...

[DanH]

Yeah, whoever brought up JV should probably not have done that, they went and made you have to discuss JV. Whoever that was should give their head a ...

[DanH]

Come on now, don't be revisionist. The Raptors often needed JV's offence and rebounding. They barely squeaked by the 76ers because they couldn't score...

[DanH]

Come on, Gasol may be a bit quicker than JV (in some situations) but on the scale of NBA defenders he's one of the more slow-footed bigs in the league....

[DanH]

Well, yeah, it was part of why I was concerned with the trade at the time - Gasol had been dogging it in Memphis for a while. He really turned up the...

[DanH]

Hate to break this to you, you must have missed the last several months, but the Raptors' current starting C who played a huge role in winning a championship...

[DanH]

Well, we'll find out in this tourney whether they make the Olympics, then they'll have an extra shot with the qualifying tournaments if they miss the...

[DanH]

I think we're being extremely generous to suggest that DeRozan "led" the Raptors to the ECF....

[DanH]

Well, a two year rental is not really what you'd usually call a rental.

And the upside of such a deal (assuming you don't want to bring him...