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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

leafman101 said:
Heard Chris Johnston say that Maasai got over $60 mill in team growth bonuses when he was fired.

He may not pop up somewhere else anytime soon.
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He may just do his giants of Africa stuff for a few years but I'd be surprised if he didn't get competitive again. That's a tough itch to scratch.
 
Expected. Apparently a chunk of his money for this year got paid out yesterday and that's what he was waiting for.

He's not a bad player at all, his contract was just always hilarious. This is a good add for the Clippers.
 
Yeah, Beal and some financial flexibility they had from not re signing Procedure P last summer.

I don't take them over Denver or OKC, but I don't know if they put this group out in less than 6 and I don't think anyone else puts them out at all.

C - Zubac
PF - Collins
SF - Kawhi
SG - Beal
PG - Harden

is nasty work. Move Dunn in for Beal if the other side has a guard worth trying to make life difficult for.
 
The west is just nasty overall really. Lakers are a move or two away from being no joke. I expect them to sign Okogie now that he's being released, they've got some future 1sts to play with and fair chunk of expiring salary in Kleber and Vincent. Turn those two and a future 1st into something like Demar or Monk and that might a squad. The Warriors will turn Kuminga into something decent that works with their system. The big french kid was declared healthy from the blood clot issue yesterday and their adds have been sneaky this off season (Kornet is a real gud stretch big, Boston is going to miss him, Kelly is still a decent vet who won't suck in his minutes), and both of their draft picks might actually be good now (Carter Bryant's perimeter D has looked nasty in summer league)...so yeah, this could be the SAS breakout year...and of course, Denver appears to have figured out how to put players around Jokic again and the league might be fucked for 2-3 years on that alone.
 
MindzEye said:
The west is just nasty overall really. Lakers are a move or two away from being no joke. I expect them to sign Okogie now that he's being released, they've got some future 1sts to play with and fair chunk of expiring salary in Kleber and Vincent. Turn those two and a future 1st into something like Demar or Monk and that might a squad. The Warriors will turn Kuminga into something decent that works with their system. The big french kid was declared healthy from the blood clot issue yesterday and their adds have been sneaky this off season (Kornet is a real gud stretch big, Boston is going to miss him, Kelly is still a decent vet who won't suck in his minutes), and both of their draft picks might actually be good now (Carter Bryant's perimeter D has looked nasty in summer league)...so yeah, this could be the SAS breakout year...and of course, Denver appears to have figured out how to put players around Jokic again and the league might be fucked for 2-3 years on that alone.
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Yup , stars should go east and take the easier playoff route
 
Wait, what?

I get it as a home coming, but the Blazers are a bad team rebuilding with young talent. And i don't know if he is a good vet leader.

I like the rehab/trade deal though.... if that is what this is.
 
Maybe, but I'm skeptical that he doesn't ring chase. If Portland is a playoff team again by then he stays, but if they're still bad (they're more than 2 yrs away imo) I would imagine he'll ring chase but he had a no trade put in there so he could choose his destination this time. He wanted to go play with Jimmy in Miami last time fwiw.
 
CMB drops 20, Raps win. On to the summer league semis as the #1 seed.

CMB was good, did just CMB looking things. Did hit a spot up 3 though under a bit of pressure, which was nice. Still not sure how playable his offence is in the NBA but this was encouraging at least.
 
They also missed Mogbo the whole game when CMB wasn't in there to provide defence and playmaking.

This summer league has proven that the Raps have a lot of Quad A players. The question is, who graduates to full-time NBAers.

I think Shead, Walter, Mogbo are them, the rest we will find out.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
but it could just be a group of seasoned 4A prospects that arent useful in the NBA.
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I think there's a pretty firm line between some of our guys as legit role players of varying limitation level and "AAAA" types on this team like Lawson, Hepburn, Castleburn, Battle, etc and it's the defence. Shead, Mogbo, & CMB are all limited offensively but all are at least average NBA defenders right now, today. What level of offensive efficiency they achieve is going to determine whether they're end of the bench role players, high level role players, fringe starters, etc. A guy like Lawson is kind of your traditional AAAA because against this level of competition he's an impact offensive guy, but that disappears against NBA defences (at least to this point in his career). He scored "well" in his cup of coffee with us last year, but as an offence first guy, .542 TS% just isn't it.
 
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