Step back and appreciate how crazy the Raptors starting lineup is how compared to July. 5 years of evaluating and steadiness and many complained about that...well, here we are
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that's the puzzling part for me man... this move feels very lateral to me :s
on paper it does look good I must say, in a sense that the whole starting line up has good Passing IQ except Kawhi Myabe, but we all know GS is gonna win this year :s
I’m expecting big things from the veteran in the Playoffs. Welcome to Toronto, Gasol!
Agreed, this is a great trade...Gasol brings everything that JV brings xcept for maybe the action on the pickandrolls. plus hes a better, more confident 3 point shooter and a better passer. If Gasol's downtrend can be blamed on the crappy Memphis team then were getting a borderline allstar...yes, I know , 34 is NBA old but hes far from over the hill. A good move by Masai this coming from a long time JV and Delon fan.
Great trade!
Last edited by OldSchool; Thu Feb 7, 2019, 04:43 PM.
that's the puzzling part for me man... this move feels very lateral to me :s
I think you are seriously underestimating Marc Gasol.... this isn't about how productive he is in limited minutes vs. JV. Gasol is a next level player, JV isn't.
Why people so upset about giving up a guy that played 19min/g and has missed half the season so far? Delon/CJ were out of the rotation anyways. This trade is a steal!
Why people so upset about giving up a guy that played 19min/g and has missed half the season so far? Delon/CJ were out of the rotation anyways. This trade is a steal!
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Remember how you cried and ate ice cream and watched the notebook for a week when DeMar left? Theres a lot of jv "fanboys" here, myself included. This one hurts for us
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Step back and appreciate how crazy the Raptors starting lineup is how compared to July. 5 years of evaluating and steadiness and many complained about that...well, here we are
- Top 5 player
- Two top 30 players
- Siakam might even be top 30 himself
- One of the top 5 3+D guys in the league
- Two starters from last year (Ibaka, OG) coming off the bench with FVV and Powell still in the rotation
We just need another 3+D wing off the pine and we're set.
Why people so upset about giving up a guy that played 19min/g and has missed half the season so far? Delon/CJ were out of the rotation anyways. This trade is a steal!
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Because JV is supremely overrated here because DanH has hyped his Kanter/Vucevic lookalike play for the past who knows how long, and people just eat up whatever he says even when it's clearly wrong.
Remember how you cried and ate ice cream and watched the notebook for a week when DeMar left? Theres a lot of jv "fanboys" here, myself included. This one hurts for us
No, I don't remembe. Raps got the better player in trade. Just like they did now. All they had to give up are two rotation players and an energy big. Not like we gave up an all-star or something. The couldn't crack 20mins
I think you are seriously underestimating Marc Gasol.... this isn't about how productive he is in limited minutes vs. JV. Gasol is a next level player, JV isn't.
The other thing this does that people are overlooking is possibly relegates Lowry to 3rd option. Way less pressure on him and he can thrive in that role. It's when he has to be #2 or even 1B like he has in the past that he tends to come up smaller than mini-me. Even if he does still we can afford him not scoring somewhat since Gasol should be able to carry a pretty heavy load in the playoffs (ditto for Pascal to a lesser extent).
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