Oakvillehoops wrote:OhCanada1091 wrote:WaltFrazier wrote:Just think. If we had drafted Suggs, there wouldn't be all this doubt and hand wringing about Barnes. There wouldn't be a season long debate shaping up. We'd be thrilled with our new Kyle replacement, and Barnes would be another 6'8 athlete. Who might not shine on the inferior Magic the way Suggs will.
I'm not too sure Suggs shines in Toronto the way he's going to shine in Orlando. He would join the Raptors as the 4th option at best behind OG, Siakam, Van Vleet. Then you gotta take Trent into consideration and also your pretty much just giving up on Malachi who at this point in his development looks a bit more polished skill wise, while he will never be the physical athlete Suggs is.
Suggs says some odd stuff sometimes too about leadership and being able to lead veterans. Like after this game he was talking about pulling guys aside in Summer League and telling them where they need to be. Bruh, these guys want your shots lol. Thats all great, its what he should be doing, but I don't see why he has to go tell the postgame interviewer how he was pulling guys aside and telling them their role. Just seems like a corny thing to do.
I'd imagine he would get iced out by Freddy and Siakam doing things like that and would not be good for team chemistry. Either that or he would be humbled quickly. He's great for Orlando but I don't think Toronto would have been an excellent fit for him to do his thing.
That’s not at all what he said. They asked him about being a leader, and he said it’s different and with all new guys he needs to learn and figure out which of the guys he can lead by getting in their faces, and which guys respond to being pulled aside and talked to privately. Which is actually a very intelligent form of leadership to be concerned about what style gets a response out of someone
I get what you're saying, but I agree with OhCanada.
I actually think it's a sneaky reason the Raptors didn't draft him. He has an arrogance about him that's definitely gotten him to this point and will likely make him a very good player in the NBA, but he'll need to reign it in as well. When he starts getting more talent around him not everyone is going to react well to it, and it may not be conducive to winning unless he has the talent to back it up. I get some Westbrook vibes from him at times, and not the good Westbrook, the one who's arrogance allows him to shoot playoff games away. Maybe I'm wrong and it becomes a more a Lillard-like quiet confidence, but that's a risk in my mind.
My own preference both in my career and playing competitive sports, is to work with the Barnes-type who is humble, but exudes confidence and people gravitate towards him naturally. It feels far more organic and he's also built the rapport and relationship to knock people down a peg without it killing their confidence.
In my mind, as soon as you need to tell people you're the leader, you're probably not the real leader.
