"Fire coach Casey" "blow it up" Official Toronto raptors 2015-2016 season thread

[waltthizzney]

We run into the same problems.

1. Hire new well-respected GM
2. Get's rid of massive contract, clears cap space
3. Inherits head coach to "give him a chance"
4. Team overachieves, wins the divison only to lose in the first round
5. Following season, signs of struggles

This happened when BC came in and kept Smitch, and now with Masai and Casey. In both cases, both coaches were signed after the initial season. MLSE only cares about playoff revenue, look at the way they charged folks last year. Treadmill team blueprint right here. Masai built a great treadmill team in Denver and is doing it here too.

Agree but Smitch was 10x the coach Casey ever was.... Dude actually held people accountable, something rare in the NBA these days....fukk he made bargnani ball the fukk out before the raptors turned him into a fat slow center.

 

[AVXL]

I mean I get the frustration about last night, but the overall vibe in this thread

Y'all actin like y'all ain't gonna win your division by 10 games, have HCA for at least a round and be a top 4 seed. Yea y'all could be playing better, but shyt. I would've thought this was the Knicks or Sixers thread

 

[waltthizzney]

Speaking of Bargs...


LOOK AT THIS MAN



The raptors RUINED this guys career trying to make him into something he is not... and watching JV out there looking like eric cartman breaks my heart

 

[Flex Kavana]

Agree but Smitch was 10x the coach Casey ever was.... Dude actually held people accountable, something rare in the NBA these days....fukk he made bargnani ball the fukk out before the raptors turned him into a fat slow center.

Smitch is ass man. Can never forget Kobe's 81 game, he told players to guard everyone but Kobe. there's a reason he hasn't had a lot of work since he left. I never could understand why the raptors couldn't just hire a veteran coach with some pedegree. When we had Lenny Wilkins he took us to the 2nd round, ever since then we have been hiring rookie coaches and failed rookie coaches. Hire fukking George Karl, he has a great relationship with Masai. No excuses.

 

[Flex Kavana]

I mean I get the frustration about last night, but the overall vibe in this thread

Y'all actin like y'all ain't gonna win your division by 10 games, have HCA for at least a round and be a top 4 seed. Yea y'all could be playing better, but shyt. I would've thought this was the Knicks or Sixers thread

Its not that, its that despite our record, we have been shyt against playoff teams, which is concerning.

 

[Flex Kavana]

I mean I get the frustration about last night, but the overall vibe in this thread

Y'all actin like y'all ain't gonna win your division by 10 games, have HCA for at least a round and be a top 4 seed. Yea y'all could be playing better, but shyt. I would've thought this was the Knicks or Sixers thread

How did you feel those 5 years when ATL were first round exits?

 

[AVXL]

How did you feel those 5 years when ATL were first round exits?

It was frustrating to a certain degree, but unlike y'all we were never a division champ in that era & rarely a top 4 seed. If anything the split among the fanbase was with Joe Johnson & Josh Smith being core pieces of our team with no clear vision of how we would really ever improve. But this shyt in this thread is x10000 negative than any Hawks thread during those days.

 

[The War Report]

Coli Raptors fans are the best.

 

[Dominique Wilkins]

How did you feel those 5 years when ATL were first round exits?

those Atlanta teams weren't nearly as good as this young Raptors team. And we didn't have a Kyle Lowry (Mike fukking Bibby).

You guys got a great GM and a superstar Point Guard. Derozan has promise, Jonas will become solid. And you got other assets to work with.

I still see yall having a say on who wins the East this year. What happened last night has happened to a bunch of teams the past 2 months.

 

[NelsonSwagdela]

bunch of fans used to perpetual mediocrity telling us how to actIts just that Canadian high standard....

 

[waltthizzney]

look what we started... I know the raptors PR team is reading this

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1367414

 

[Auger]

Anyone peep this today?

Report: Raptors' long-term goal is to lure Andrew Wiggins home
By Matt Moore | NBA writer
January 15, 2015 1:00 pm ET
The Globe and Mail has an... interesting piece on the Raptor's long-term plan. It's multi-layered, and starts this year. The team wants to win a first-round playoff game. That makes sense, it's in contention for the best team in the East, and everyone believes that it can win a first-round matchup.

Interestingly, the pieces says that two may be too many, as it may create "an unreasonable expectation." That leads you to think that the front office, despite having shelled out to keep this team essentially just the way it was last year, doesn't believe it's really a title contender -- a rare bit of realism from a winning front office. Usually those guys go gaga if they win some games.

But the more eye-opening component comes when the piece reveals that sources believe the Raptors' plan is mapped out seven years in the future, and focuses on rookie sensation ... Andrew Wiggins.

The real target will not rise into view for more than six years – Andrew Wiggins.

We haven't heard a whole lot about the Vaughan, Ont., product lately. He plays on the worst team in the league (not counting the Knicks, who are no longer functionally an NBA team).

Wiggins' embarrassing ouster from Cleveland has turned out to be the blessing many guessed it would be. He was a thin presence in the early going, overawed by the pace and size of his peers. Over the last 10 games, something's clicked. Wiggins is averaging 21 points per in that stretch, and playing smarter defence. He still doesn't have a jump shot, but that can be taught.

He's going to be the rookie of the year, and a major star in this league.

And the Raptors have their sights set directly on him once he becomes an unrestricted free agent, as early as 2021.

That's a long time from now, but a great deal of what the Raptors are building is being constructed with Wiggins in mind.​

via Kelly: The Raptors, Andrew Wiggins and the long-term plan - The Globe and Mail.

That's right, folks. We're starting free agency mania seven years in advance, before a player's rookie season is even over.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...long-term-goal-is-to-lure-andrew-wiggins-home

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...ggins-and-the-long-term-plan/article22438429/

It's funny, but even the article states that the FO is only set on breaking the first round this year

 

[Flex Kavana]

Anyone peep this today?


http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...long-term-goal-is-to-lure-andrew-wiggins-home

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...ggins-and-the-long-term-plan/article22438429/

It's funny, but even the article states that the FO is only set on breaking the first round this year

This is a joke honestly.

 

[Auger]

This is a joke honestly.

well it's a realistic goal

 

[Flex Kavana]

look what we started... I know the raptors PR team is reading this

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1367414