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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

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mbow30 said:
What was the trade… shead and Davion for that McDaniel guy who was terrible?
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Davion, the Lithuanian dude who bolted back to Europe, and picks for McDaniels...who is terrible.

*edit* oh shit, they used the pick on Shead, you're right.
 
zeke said:
on the verge of digging this hole too deep to get out of no matter how healthy we get.
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If it happens, it happens.

I look at this though

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and even a 2-9 start isn't beyond turning into a play in spot.

Even updating for after tonight's games there are only 2 teams above .500 in the east ffs. This conference might be historic levels of dogshit this year.
 
uh oh, after a blazing start, RJ's ts% is looking a lot like his knicks days.


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clear improvements from Dick and Agbaji and Boucher still giving me hope, but man we need BBQ to be healthy and actually good. They can't be 50ts% guys.
 
zeke said:
uh oh, after a blazing start, RJ's ts% is looking a lot like his knicks days.


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clear improvements from Dick and Agbaji and Boucher still giving me hope, but man we need BBQ to be healthy and actually good. They can't be 50ts% guys.
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- I'm not worried about RJ. He's being used wrong right now and they'll get back to using him off ball shortly. I like seeing the growth of RJ as a ballhandler and a creator for others, but he's waaay too aggressive with his passing reads and the ball being put in his hands as an offensive focal point has him forcing things again. This is what stunted his growth in New York. An offence with bad spacing (this one tries to overcome it with good movement, the Knicks were just stagnant) that focuses on putting the ball in an offensive player's hands and letting them do stuff. A lot of situations the last few games where the ball was in RJ's hands in late clock and he's just not that type of shot maker, but he'll put the shots up if the offence expects him to.

- I'm ready for a fight on this, but I think Agbaji is the right guy to keep in the starting lineup when Scottie gets back with Gravy to the bench. Gravy surprises me with the odd excellent read (his BBIQ is quite high) and defensive skill play, but he's still pretty rough defensively and the offence needs a guy with no conscience and a quick trigger to work with those defensive guys on the 2nd unit. Agbaji has been fucking excellent. Just does smart, I spent 4 years at a great college program, type shit out there. This is of course if he continues shooting the ball at a professional rate. I do not expect 48% to continue. But if he's shooting the ball at 37-40% I think he does all of that complimentary shit we need in the starting rotation and that unit only has so much shots to spread around. I want Scottie, RJ, and IQ driving that bus. There are 14-15 shots a night for Gravy being the man on the 2nd unit and on nights he's going good and we need the offence, with the closing unit.

- Yeah, rest of the bench looks nice. I liked Davion off the bench a lot last night despite the shooting not being there. In 2 games since IQ came back he's put up 9 assists with 1 TO, and 8 boards. We absolutely need him to get up to professional shooting splits if he's going to be the backup here for the next few seasons, but I don't think last year's shooting was a fluke. Boucher earning Darko's trust is good news for when Scottie gets back as well.
 
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