OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

[zeke]

wait a sec Ace is a nickname that is nowhere close to as good as his actual name - Airious.

which is the best name of all time.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

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[zeke]

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meh that's a hunk a junk imo

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

meh that's a hunk a junk imo

It is, but what even is Brown at this stage?

 

[zeke]

boucher is beasting on both ends

put him in the starting lineup tbh

 

[MindzEye]

as long as he's on the team Boucher has to be in heavy rotation.

the small bench lineups they went with the last couple games were bizarre, given that boucher is better than most every other bench player anyways.

Way more Boucher, more Battle, and Davion is our backup PG.

I think we've seen a few things pretty much established over the last few weeks

- Gradey is a bench player, but we're short a starting SF...so whatever, let him and Okai knife fight over it.
- Bruce looks like he's been off for a year, weird.
- Shead needs 30 minutes a night in the G League
- Honestly, so does Ja'Kobe
- Darko doesn't like Mogbo and I don't understand why

But what should be our rotation has started to crystalize imo, I'm not sure if Darko sees it that way though

C - Jake
PF - Scottie
SF - Okai
SG - RJ
PG - IQ

6 - Gradey
7 - Boucher
8 - Kelly
9 - Davion
10 - Mogbo
11 - Brown

 

[MindzEye]

boucher is beasting on both ends

put him in the starting lineup tbh

Darko has always has a weird hate for him. Dude is an akward, limited player, but he leaves his mark on a lot of games he plays in.

 

[zeke]

Poeltl
Boucher
Barnes
Barrett
Quickley

Olynyk
Mogbo
Agbaji
Dick
Shead

 

[MindzEye]

meh that's a hunk a junk imo

Yeah, don't know how I feel about that. Hachimura is okay, but we already have a starting PF who is a PF and needs to be left at PF. Hachimura off the bench for 18 million? Is that really better than keeping Boucher for vet min or some shit? Nah.

Vincent is dead money imo, he's ass. Would rather just let Bruce walk now that the apron structure is changing the value of real cap space again.

 

[zeke]

yeah the worst thing to do with Brown would be to turn him into deadweight contracts.

 

[MindzEye]

Poeltl
Boucher
Barnes
Barrett
Quickley

Olynyk
Mogbo
Agbaji
Dick
Shead

Sub out Davion for Shead and I'm down. Davion is a back of the rotation NBA bench guard, Shead isn't NBA calibre at all yet imo.

 

[zeke]

yeah but davion is ass who won't help us win anyways. i'd rather see what shead can do.

 

[MindzEye]

yeah but davion is ass who won't help us win anyways. i'd rather see what shead can do.

We've seen what Shead can do. He's not a NBA player and needs development. Let's develop him rather than have him be one of the rookies we're force feeding minutes to and watching them get boot fucked in. Wins are important to developing the NBA calibre young guys we have on the roster already.

 

[zeke]

gayvion

 

[MindzEye]

gayvion

Temporary backup PG who fills a role at a back of the bench NBA level. Let him walk and upgrade in the off season.

Shead might be good one today. That day is not today though, and him getting boot fucked in his minutes away from the starters isn't the way to develop him. That's what the G League is for.

 

[MindzEye]

They're so, so much better coached than we are. They know where to be, how to space, etc. Two possessions in a row we had shitty spacing close off advantages earned off of the dribble. Our rotations are unsure and late.