Raps in 4 wrote:Scarface844 wrote:I'm shocked at how many people are saying stuff like bring BC back as MLSE CEO or it's BC's core.
1. This is Masai's core. BC's core was a neutered Lowry, DeMar, Rudy, Bargnani and JV along with terrible assistant coaches and the worst bench in the league.
Here is our core:
JV
Amir
Ross
Derozan
Lowry
Tell me now, who acquired every single one of those players?
If BC brought in every single piece of our core, how is it not his core?
The rest of your post is conjecture at this point because Masai hasn't had time to screw up yet. Keep in mind that BC did just as well as Masai in his first year with us.
I hated BC and was one of the first people calling for him to get fired. But that doesn't mean I'm going to tell myself lies in an attempt to dismiss the fact that he built a moderately successful team.
While BC was managing the team, THAT team + Gay and Bargnani, it had one winning season in 7 years (not a typo: ONE winning season in 7 years) and a winning percentage in the .400 range.
That is incredibly bad. More so for a guy who held onto his job for 7 straight years.
The "core" that BC put together was a LOSER right up to the bitter end. What does that say? That as HE had built it, it was a losing team. We can't honestly say the current WINNING team is BC's team, because BC's team, as he built it, was a LOSER. Simple math.
It makes little sense to say that they are the same teams. They aren't. And the team wasn't a winner until Masai did some pretty amazing surgery on BC's frankenstein mess. A mess that he built with untold resources - high first round picks year after year, cap space, a young All-NBA power forward he inherited, trade assets.
BC blew most of the fantastic resources he was given. Late in his reign of error, drafting Ross over Drummond, signing Fields, trading for Lowry instead of signing Dragic, not trading Bargnani, and then trading for Gay - and that is just in ONE disastrous typically BC-like 8-month meltdown - produced a LOSING TEAM. A "BC team" that - probably - would've kept on losing AD NAUSEUM. It was a hodgepodge of non-fitting pieces that was never going to work. And THAT is "BC's team".
Any clown, given all the incredible resources that BC was given over 7 pitiful years, can make an inept blindfolded throw at a dartboard and have it stick now and then, but the sum that BC put together from all those resources was less than half what it should've been from the parts he had.
BC cobbled together a limping, bumbling, losing frankenstein of a team, that Masai came in and performed life-saving surgery on by cutting off the crippling, deadweight parts that were dragging the team down to BC bottom dwelling depths, and turned that mess into a sleek, strong, fast-paced sprinter. And a winner.
Any talk of having BC linked to the Raptors in even the smallest way would be grounds to call in a nuclear strike.