Top 5 and we on the run - Official Offseason Raptors 2021 Season Thread

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If Scottie Barnes doesnt come out the blocks strong hes gonna get killed by the city...Unfortunately for him hes gonna be tied to Suggs in this city since everyone thought we were drafting him...if Suggs is a star out the gate and Barnes is not hes gonna hear it and so will this Front office...
 
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If Scottie Barnes doesnt come out the blocks strong hes gonna get killed by the city...Unfortunately for him hes gonna be tied to Suggs in this city since everyone thought we were drafting him...if Suggs is a star out the gate and Barnes is not hes gonna hear it and so will this Front office...

horrible pick yesterday, today and forever

But will anyone attack the raptors? All the main media are just ass kissers
 

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I’ll wait for Barnes and Suggs to hit the court before saying anything. I don’t watch college ball
 

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horrible pick yesterday, today and forever

But will anyone attack the raptors? All the main media are just ass kissers
I listened to a little bit of some of the pressers with nurse and Webster yesterday and it was ridiculous. Every question was basically " Scottie Barnes is awesome and the right pick, explain how you're so smart?" Or " Barnes is obviously great at xyz, how much did he impress you?"

Legit didn't hear one question about this being a potential reach, anything about Suggs or the fact that they used a top 4 pick on a guy who duplicates what their top 2 guys already do

I get that they can't just shyt on the pick but it was all just ball washing
 

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I listened to a little bit of some of the pressers with nurse and Webster yesterday and it was ridiculous. Every question was basically " Scottie Barnes is awesome and the right pick, explain how you're so smart?" Or " Barnes is obviously great at xyz, how much did he impress you?

Legit didn't hear one question about this being a potential reach, anything about Suggs or the fact that they used a top 4 pick on a guy who duplicates what their top 2 guys already do

I get that they can't just shyt on the pick but it was all just ball washing

I even heard the whole he's big and can play pg and bring the ball up, umm isn't that already what siakam does who avg 5 assists last year

The worse thing to me is that you have so many holes on the team, one of the weakest benches in the nba, lowry is gone, have no bigs. Last year raptors were filled with long guys who could defend but we couldn't score .

In the past few years the raptors have lost, danny green, marc gasol, kyle lowry , serge ibaka

in the past 3 years the raptors have signed - Aron Baynes, alex len, deandre bembry, rondae hollis jefferson, yuta watanbe, freddie gillespie not even one above average nba player

how does anyone have faith in this front office? And now they have to pay gary trent 20 mill a year :picard:
 

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I’ll wait for Barnes and Suggs to hit the court before saying anything. I don’t watch college ball

Yeah I still don't see how it'll all work. We got a team full of 6'7 and 6'8 guys who can't shoot now

They better hope Barnes shot comes along quickly and he's more of a jaylen brown and kawhi in terms of shot development than a MKG, Corey Brewer and Stanley. Otherwise this is a franchise altering pick and they wasted a golden opportunity at a franchise player for a glue guy
 

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The thing is that they drafted three big "point forward" types (Scottie Barnes 6'8, Banton 6'9, David Johnson 6'6) tonight too, and all three have trouble shooting the ball. What are they trying to do here? :russ:

We'll see how this is gonna look next Sunday:



Play hot potato till the shot clock runs out
 

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Fluffball evaluations....great motor defensive intensity.

He cant shoot,hes a none factor in halfcourt and the thing not being talked about is hes not a great athlete...

Hes just a 6'9" guy who handles the ball...this pick is going to haunt us for years.

As someone stated we took a smaller less athletic Ben Simmons.
 

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They aint trynna get their media passes revoked. Raps take care of the media folks very well.

MLSE who owns the raptors - rogers and bell
rogers owns sportsnet
bell owns TSN

Toronto star is owned by nordstar capital which is run by Jordan bitove, jordan bitove father john bitove was the first owner of the raptors
 

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Fluffball evaluations....great motor defensive intensity.

He cant shoot,hes a none factor in halfcourt and the thing not being talked about is hes not a great athlete...

Hes just a 6'9" guy who handles the ball...this pick is going to haunt us for years.

As someone stated we took a smaller less athletic Ben Simmons.

dwayne bembry will be getting minutes over barnes
 
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