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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

MindzEye said:
yeah, my takeaway isn't that this group can't contend at all.

My takeaway is that you need to answer some questions and shuffle some pieces

1) Is Gasol done as he looked in the playoffs, or can he still be a useful rotation big with Serge? I'm prone to consider the bubble as an outlier as Marc was still a very, very good defender during the regular season. If you bring back Serge & Gasol (both are free agents), how much savings are there? They were paid a combined 49 million this season, I can guarantee they won't be remotely close to that this season. Neither are likely to be that horny about moving on from Toronto.

2) Is FVV trying to end up on a bad team that will pay him, or stay a Raptor? If he's trying to stay a Raptor, he's probably only looking at a 8m raise. If he's trying to be a Piston, 20+M is probably a thing.

3) Assuming that you just run it back again, the biggest flaw this team has is in the half court offence. We need at least one guy who can create shots out of broken plays, late clocks, etc. Doesn't have to be a star (though that would be fucking nice), just someone who can create individual offence and is tall enough to ride all of the rollercoasters at wonderland

I think that if you can find one legitimately good but non star player who can patch that particular hole in the rotation, we're contender status again.

With all of that said, until we know the cap figure for next year, no one has a fucking clue what's going to happen going forward.
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agreed with all of the above and will add one note - I don't think its unreasonable to expect further progress from Spicy. He's improved fairly dramatically every year he's been in the league, and will have all summer to think about the epic balls he sucked in the playoffs.
 
The Athletic had a long piece crunching the numbers. Doesn’t look like Raps can go higher than 20m....even that may be too high.
 
Preston said:
They lost in 7 games by a single possession. This whole "they almost got swept" thing is dumb. I agree that Boston was better but your narrative is ridiculous.
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If we had six more points in Game 7, we still would’ve almost been swept out. Think about that! Deep thoughts, by Jack Handy.
 
CH1 said:
I think the key is extending OG asap on a team favourable deal before he adds another gear to his game
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OK just scanned that and it's them talking about leaving room to sign Giannis in 21-22. But even they admit all the raps have to do to make it work is trade Powell, which is obviously a sacrifice you make for Giannis. That's of course if we think we should be building our team based on the expectation of signing giannis as a free agent.

Tbh I don't let that stop me from signing fred.
 
zeke said:
OK just scanned that and it's them talking about leaving room to sign Giannis in 21-22. But even they admit all the raps have to do to make it work is trade Powell, which is obviously a sacrifice you make for Giannis. That's of course if we think we should be building our team based on the expectation of signing giannis as a free agent.

Tbh I don't let that stop me from signing fred.
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If not Giannis, they need to throw big money at someone who can make his own shot.
 
I mean we spent $90m on Lowry/Gasol/Ibaka/Johnson/McCaw this year.

I don't see how it can be that hard to give a $30m raise to Siakam ($23 --> $31), Fred ($9 --> $20?), and OG ($4 --> 15?) and still have room for the $35m they estimate for Giannis?
 
zeke said:
I mean we spent $90m on Lowry/Gasol/Ibaka/Johnson/McCaw this year.

I don't see how it can be that hard to give a $30m raise to Siakam ($23 --> $31), Fred ($9 --> $20?), and OG ($4 --> 15?) and still have room for the $35m they estimate for Giannis?
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The number bandied about here is 22. Every mil counts.
 
who knows how it shakes out...it's all speculation at this point...I just won't be surprised to see FVV bolt if he wants >20M
 
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