Former Raptor discussion thread 2.0

bboyskinnylegs · Post #1921 » by **bboyskinnylegs** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:04 pm

nice dunk

Bruin · Post #1922 » by **Bruin** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:13 pm

Nice first half debut for OG. Leads the team in minutes. Thibs loves him already lol

bboyskinnylegs · Post #1923 » by **bboyskinnylegs** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:13 pm

on pace for 40 mins

pbernardi · Post #1924 » by **pbernardi** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:30 pm

I already want OG back

Raptorland23 · Post #1925 » by **Raptorland23** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:33 pm

OG bout to turn the Knick franchise around

Bruin · Post #1926 » by **Bruin** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:46 pm

Knicks fans are loving OG so far. Best defense they’ve seen in years and he has 4 dunks and 2 corner 3s

Hopefully IQ and RJ have a nice debut later today too

TorontoRapsFan · Post #1927 » by **TorontoRapsFan** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:47 pm

It's hard watching OG on the Knicks and them winning by almost 20 against the 2nd best team in the league. Although I still feel like watching the Twolves is watching a garbage team

sbsat · Post #1928 » by **sbsat** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 9:47 pm

Og fitting in nicely

bboyskinnylegs · Post #1929 » by **bboyskinnylegs** » Mon Jan 1, 2024 10:54 pm

Read on Twitter

Kingsway_fan · Post #1930 » by **Kingsway_fan** » Tue Jan 2, 2024 8:00 am

Another allstar performance from Norm.... burns me up when I see how he is playing 22pts on 9 for 11 shooting.. 50 percent foe the season.... and we have this pos in Trent, who single handedly has cost us MANY GAMEs this season....

Agimat · Post #1931 » by **Agimat** » Tue Jan 2, 2024 5:23 pm

Norm and OG

We acquired this impostor player with Trent

DreamTeam09 · Post #1932 » by **DreamTeam09** » Wed Jan 3, 2024 1:31 am

Bring my boy Bruno back, perfect small ball 5 right now for us. Let's see what a stretch 5 who can Blk some shots looks like for us.

Holla · Post #1933 » by **Holla** » Thu Jan 4, 2024 12:41 pm

JV would fit perfectly with this team

WaltFrazier · Post #1934 » by **WaltFrazier** » Thu Jan 4, 2024 3:31 pm

Lamarcus Aldridge dishes on why Kawhi didn't get along with Pop. Too much homework.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nba/lamarcus-aldridge-explains-the-rift-between-gregg-popovich-and-kawhi-leonard/ar-AA1mqeqm?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b04a490e273945f9bf5123dfa6c46ca2&ei=22

Imagine you're Kawhi Leonard. The best player on the other team is standing in front of you, and you have to guard him — night in and night out. You're exhausted after the game, but instead of unwinding when you get home, you pull out a notebook and watch C-SPAN instead. Why? Because your coach assigned current events homework. According to LaMarcus Aldridge, this might have been the reality The Claw faced in San Antonio.

Michael Jordan · Post #1935 » by **Michael Jordan** » Thu Jan 4, 2024 3:57 pm

Kingsway_fan wrote:Another allstar performance from Norm.... burns me up when I see how he is playing 22pts on 9 for 11 shooting.. 50 percent foe the season.... and we have this pos in Trent, who single handedly has cost us MANY GAMEs this season....

Yeah the Raps lost that trade but Norm took a pay-cut to play home in LA whereas he probably would have demanded a larger contract here.

Still, GTJ is 24 and Norm is 30 so we might see the tide turn soon.

douggood · Post #1936 » by **douggood** » Thu Jan 4, 2024 3:59 pm

Michael Jordan wrote:
Kingsway_fan wrote:Another allstar performance from Norm.... burns me up when I see how he is playing 22pts on 9 for 11 shooting.. 50 percent foe the season.... and we have this pos in Trent, who single handedly has cost us MANY GAMEs this season....

Yeah the Raps lost that trade but Norm took a pay-cut to play home in LA whereas he probably would have demanded a larger contract here.

Still, GTJ is 24 and Norm is 30 so we might see the tide turn soon.

norm resigned with portland, who later traded him to la.

YogurtProducer · Post #1937 » by **YogurtProducer** » Thu Jan 4, 2024 4:03 pm

Michael Jordan wrote:
Kingsway_fan wrote:Another allstar performance from Norm.... burns me up when I see how he is playing 22pts on 9 for 11 shooting.. 50 percent foe the season.... and we have this pos in Trent, who single handedly has cost us MANY GAMEs this season....

Yeah the Raps lost that trade but Norm took a pay-cut to play home in LA whereas he probably would have demanded a larger contract here.

Still, GTJ is 24 and Norm is 30 so we might see the tide turn soon.

Yeah like I don't think people understand the age angle here at all.

GTJ is 24 turning 25. When Norm was 24 turning 25 he was averaging 5.5ppg on 49.2TS% and was hated on this board for being a bad contract. People give up on players way, way, way to quickly.

Norm is pretty much the same player as GTJ, he is just more refined of a player who does the same things as GTJ just at a higher level as he has more experience, but he was not always like this.

GIZMO · Post #1938 » by **GIZMO** » Fri Jan 5, 2024 11:32 pm

YogurtProducer wrote:
Michael Jordan wrote:
Kingsway_fan wrote:Another allstar performance from Norm.... burns me up when I see how he is playing 22pts on 9 for 11 shooting.. 50 percent foe the season.... and we have this pos in Trent, who single handedly has cost us MANY GAMEs this season....

Yeah the Raps lost that trade but Norm took a pay-cut to play home in LA whereas he probably would have demanded a larger contract here.

Still, GTJ is 24 and Norm is 30 so we might see the tide turn soon.

Yeah like I don't think people understand the age angle here at all.

GTJ is 24 turning 25. When Norm was 24 turning 25 he was averaging 5.5ppg on 49.2TS% and was hated on this board for being a bad contract. People give up on players way, way, way to quickly.

Norm is pretty much the same player as GTJ, he is just more refined of a player who does the same things as GTJ just at a higher level as he has more experience, but he was not always like this.

what was Norm making at that age. That is the problem!

YogurtProducer · Post #1939 » by **YogurtProducer** » Sat Jan 6, 2024 12:04 am

GIZMO wrote:
YogurtProducer wrote:
Michael Jordan wrote:
Yeah the Raps lost that trade but Norm took a pay-cut to play home in LA whereas he probably would have demanded a larger contract here.

Still, GTJ is 24 and Norm is 30 so we might see the tide turn soon.

Yeah like I don't think people understand the age angle here at all.

GTJ is 24 turning 25. When Norm was 24 turning 25 he was averaging 5.5ppg on 49.2TS% and was hated on this board for being a bad contract. People give up on players way, way, way to quickly.

Norm is pretty much the same player as GTJ, he is just more refined of a player who does the same things as GTJ just at a higher level as he has more experience, but he was not always like this.

what was Norm making at that age. That is the problem!

He signed a 10M extension in the off season lol borderline more per cap than GTJ.

Powell was a “bad contract” when he signed it.

GIZMO · Post #1940 » by **GIZMO** » Sat Jan 6, 2024 12:10 am

YogurtProducer wrote:
GIZMO wrote:
YogurtProducer wrote:Yeah like I don't think people understand the age angle here at all.

GTJ is 24 turning 25. When Norm was 24 turning 25 he was averaging 5.5ppg on 49.2TS% and was hated on this board for being a bad contract. People give up on players way, way, way to quickly.

Norm is pretty much the same player as GTJ, he is just more refined of a player who does the same things as GTJ just at a higher level as he has more experience, but he was not always like this.

what was Norm making at that age. That is the problem!

He signed a 10M extension in the off season lol borderline more per cap than GTJ.

Powell was a “bad contract” when he signed it.

So both were a bad contract, because I view GTJ as a bad contract. IMO we overpaid for potential.