Dennis 37 wrote:Coach Carter wrote:I think giannis is staying but i also think both khris and bledsoe(especially) need to start playing better come playoff time.
As for raptor fans, real delusion and desperation on their part. Winning the chip seems to have given them false level of expectation. Only a handful of teams are big FA destinations and toronto isn't one of them. They profited from a peculiar and unfortunate spurs-kawhi situation but now that's over and it reinstates that their best bet is to draft someone that can become superstar and can really buy in.
Coming in peace here. While I acknowledge there are some on our board who want to recruit and don't agree with me/us, there are a good number who are turned off by the FA mess/tampering/podcast/ESPN BS that goes on. We do not want 2 years of recruiting to happen, we do not want our players to be whispering to Giannis like LeBron did to Kawhi, we do not want our team president attending multiple Bucks home games like the Clippers president did in TO. As a fan, who is experienced in tier1 FAs not eager to come to my team, I, and others, feel empathy for your position. Will Masai have cap room available? Most likely. Would we want him to tamper in any way? Would we want your team or city to be bad mouthed by ESPN personalities and others? Would we want you to have to live through two years of speculation? Absolutely not.
It's not 'recruiting' on RealGM, it's just trolling on here since what you guys want and hope for has no bearing whatsoever on what your team does. It's annoying af to see Toronto fans spam their delusions about poaching Giannis away in every Giannis thread on the general board while trashing the city of Milwaukee because of some passing association with Ujiri with them both being of Nigerian heritage, it's gotten really old really fast. I'm not too worried about actual tampering or recruiting from Toronto's end, I don't think there is much to sell with Kawhi gone & a rebuild pending so it's just entirely a fan/media driven thing.
I know Kawhi leaving hurts but you don't have to project that hurt on to us which is what this is, there is a serious inferiority complex going on up in The North™. That's not saying you guys are inferior in anyway either hence the complex part, I kind of seems like this is a problem with Canadians in general with so much of their identity tied up in being 'not American'. I'm generalizing and not speaking directly so don't take it personally fwiw.
The Ujiri cult of personality is approaching Hinkie levels and it's really annoying, if he was such a god he would have been able to retain Kawhi. Cool smart guy sure and much better at his job than Hinkie but people go so overboard, I guess you need something to put your hope in. If I were Ujiri I would focus on starting the rebuild and developing from within because you can't count on NBA free agents years out unless you're one of the 3 chosen big markets in the NBA that players want to go to, that's a big risk even if you are one of those markets as shown by the Knicks swinging & missing the offseason.
. That's not saying you guys are inferior in anyway either hence the complex part, I kind of seems like this is a problem with Canadians in general with so much of their identity tied up in being 'not American'. I'm generalizing and not speaking directly so don't take it personally fwiw. 
