Fire Masai Urjiri

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Heres the thing even if you trade OG or Siakam this summer and even if you get a good deal it wont be the same deal you had in February,itll be worse version of what was available because its less service time on those contracts...money in hand is more valuable than future money.

Even if you can swindle a team to give you 3-1st for OG in July its less of a deal than getting those 3 firsts at the trade deadline because you re upped on Poeltl and it cost you a top 6 pick for a meaingless play in loss....
thing is no one forced Masai hand, these are all self inflicted wounds
if Poeltl gets some disgusting contract along with GTJ and FVV its gonna be some dark ass days out here
 

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thing is no one forced Masai hand, these are all self inflicted wounds
if Poeltl gets some disgusting contract along with GTJ and FVV its gonna be some dark ass days out here

Prepare for them its gonna take him 2-3 seasons to clean this mess up....If you trade OG and Siakam for packages and picks that means u dont give up next years 1st for Poeltl which means ur not into the luxury tax next year,you have a legit shot at Scoot plus maybe Shaedon Sharpe and a bunch of other young players......Masai and Bobby misread this team so badly you cant go back to that "trust Masai" foolishness again.
 

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og is one of the most overrated players in the nba

anytime he puts the ball on the floor you just :picard:


Nikkas get fooled by that one game every 2 weeks where he has 25 points on 56 % and locks Harden up....then the next 5 games hes back to 12 PPG...
He never does it over a stretch of 15-20 games....You just saw in the play in he scored 13 and played awful defense most of the 2nd half,he didnt look engaged at all.....those people that defend him having a bigger role in this fanbase id spit in there fukkn eyes.
 

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The way I look at Masai is he should be getting blasted for the moves he didn't make and some of the trades he made.

Trades we didn't make
1. he turned down Maxey for Lowry because he also wanted Thybulle who is not even a good player
2. Turned down OG trade to Portalnd who were willing to give up Shaedon Sharpe
3. Failure to trade away Fred and start the path of rebuild. There was no need trying to get into the play-in with this roster because it's been proven this roster doesn't work

Trades we made
1. Trading away a 1st for Thad and drafting Koloko when they could've been Kessler who is a better player
2. Trading away a top 6 protected for Poeltl like wtf was that? If you're going to do that trade then put much better protection like a lottery protection or even top 10, but top 6 protection is a boneheaded move
3. Signing a bunch of bums to the roster and sticking with certain talents too long
4. 6'9" master of none fetish set the franchise back many years
5. Failure to sign a shooter and waiting too long to get an actual center

Anyways, the list can go on and on, but Masai failed the team since we had our Tampa seasons. All of the stuff above happened since the 2021 season, and we can't even blow up the team next season since Spurs own our pick with weak protection.
 

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Next season is a wash cause they traded their first rounder which is lightly protected.
The way I look at Masai is he should be getting blasted for the moves he didn't make and some of the trades he made.

Trades we didn't make
1. he turned down Maxey for Lowry because he also wanted Thybulle who is not even a good player
2. Turned down OG trade to Portalnd who were willing to give up Shaedon Sharpe
3. Failure to trade away Fred and start the path of rebuild. There was no need trying to get into the play-in with this roster because it's been proven this roster doesn't work

Trades we made
1. Trading away a 1st for Thad and drafting Koloko when they could've been Kessler who is a better player
2. Trading away a top 6 protected for Poeltl like wtf was that? If you're going to do that trade then put much better protection like a lottery protection or even top 10, but top 6 protection is a boneheaded move
3. Signing a bunch of bums to the roster and sticking with certain talents too long
4. 6'9" master of none fetish set the franchise back many years
5. Failure to sign a shooter and waiting too long to get an actual center

Anyways, the list can go on and on, but Masai failed the team since we had our Tampa seasons. All of the stuff above happened since the 2021 season, and we can't even blow up the team next season since Spurs own our pick with weak protection.

the worst move was trading a top 6 protected pick for poetl

u either have to treadmill like u did this year or super tank(with a high chance of losing your pick) to have a chance at keeping your pick

Masai is who people think Rob Pelinka is

Masai is also the same dude who was going to trade Kyle Lowry for Iman Shumpert before Dolan stopped it
 

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The way I look at Masai is he should be getting blasted for the moves he didn't make and some of the trades he made.

Trades we didn't make
1. he turned down Maxey for Lowry because he also wanted Thybulle who is not even a good player
2. Turned down OG trade to Portalnd who were willing to give up Shaedon Sharpe
3. Failure to trade away Fred and start the path of rebuild. There was no need trying to get into the play-in with this roster because it's been proven this roster doesn't work

Trades we made
1. Trading away a 1st for Thad and drafting Koloko when they could've been Kessler who is a better player
2. Trading away a top 6 protected for Poeltl like wtf was that? If you're going to do that trade then put much better protection like a lottery protection or even top 10, but top 6 protection is a boneheaded move
3. Signing a bunch of bums to the roster and sticking with certain talents too long
4. 6'9" master of none fetish set the franchise back many years
5. Failure to sign a shooter and waiting too long to get an actual center

Anyways, the list can go on and on, but Masai failed the team since we had our Tampa seasons. All of the stuff above happened since the 2021 season, and we can't even blow up the team next season since Spurs own our pick with weak protection.

dont forget otto porter jr a signing that was never needed and dude literally played 8 games and has another season left
 

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the only thing i'll give masai credit for is short contracts although raptors will be capped out shortly and we are never signing anyone of merit

like look at miami :picard:
 

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thing is no one forced Masai hand, these are all self inflicted wounds
if Poeltl gets some disgusting contract along with GTJ and FVV its gonna be some dark ass days out here

whats crazy and sad is how much worse the raptors would be now if we didn't have that tampa season and lucked up in the draft.

I'm sick of masai urjiri and the us media still sucking him off like hes red aurebach.
 

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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe Brian Wright has been gm since like 2019(assistant gm since 2016) but was the one handling the Kawhi trade fiasco in 2018
u could be right. I thought RC was still GM. Kawhi got traded in the 2018-19 offseason

If it wasnt RC, then RC still da gawd

If it was Wright. that dude fukked up. Even considering picking Primo when he wasnt even supposed to be in the lottery and then having to waive him bc he's a pervert... :francis:
 

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the crazy thing as well the only thing that worked was trading for a disgruntled star. Since then there has been donovan mitchell, durant, irving etc. and raps have done nothing but hold onto garbage ass pieces
 
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