Shams: Raptors sign Mamukelashvili to a two-year, $5.5 million deal (player option)

[bboyskinnylegs]

he's like Bizarro Baynes, I like it. Should be good for our shooting-challenged high lotto picks

[ForeverTFC]

Fine with this. Gives us a new look. I assume we'll play a decent amount of small ball minutes with CMB/Scottie at 4/5 to see what it looks like. So I like that he can flex up the roster a bit.

[WuTang_CMB]

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[ArthurVandelay]

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We didn’t suffer through this season to watch CMB go through a trap glass floor.

[Yallbecrazy]

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Maybe he should take all his free throws that way considering he's a career 73.1% shooter.

[OhCanada]

Poeltl / Sandro
Barnes / CMB
Ingram / Walter / Mogbo
Barrett / Agbaji / Dick
Quickely / Shead

That can get us to the 6th seed. This team should be better than the Pistons. We are going to need Barnes, RJ and the other younger players to be better and produce more.

I'm usually very rational when it comes to our team at this point and Im gonna be very honest here. There is not a single team in the East that concerns me. I think this team stacks up very well with every one of them. Even if we get injuries the team has a good young player at every single position ready to show out. They also have tons of depth at the wing. This is the Indiana/OKC/Houston model weve seen here from these successful teams recently and Toronto has nailed it. Young vets with Ingram and Poeltl. Young talent at every position keeping things competitive ready to take a larger role. And tons of versatility.

Really anything less than 50 wins would be a dissapointment to me and I know thats a huge leap but the talent is there. I think Quickley is the key. If he stays healthy I see this team able to be a home seed in the East.

[OhCanada]

Quickly/Shead/Martin
Barrett/Ochai/Dick
Ingram/Walter/Battle
Barnes/CMB/Mogbo
Poeltl/Mamu

That's pretty good depth wow.

THATS WAY TOO MANY GUYS WHO NEED MINS

CMB can be a huge impact player even as a rookie many will be surprised at how good he is immediately.

I actually want him to play, I dont trust Darko with this many playable players he's too nice and will try and give everyone minutes.

we still need a consolidating trade badly..

we'd still have 10 playable guys or more.

Your complaining about having depth? This is what you need to win. Look at Indiana, Houston, OKC. Depth is how you win games and stay healthy.

[tsherkin]

THATS WAY TOO MANY GUYS WHO NEED MINS

CMB can be a huge impact player even as a rookie many will be surprised at how good he is immediately.

I actually want him to play, I dont trust Darko with this many playable players he's too nice and will try and give everyone minutes.

we still need a consolidating trade badly..

we'd still have 10 playable guys or more.

So this is a super weird complaint that seems to be "PLAY CMB MORE RIGHT AWAY FOR NO REASON EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NO RANGE."

CMB will earn his minutes, and has the potential to sneak into lineups of various sorts without necessarily needing to be the center. We're going to be all right. If CMB is good, he'll play more. If Mamu is not, he won't, though we do have a baseline for what he does provide.

[Thaddy]

Poeltl / Sandro
Barnes / CMB
Ingram / Walter / Mogbo
Barrett / Agbaji / Dick
Quickely / Shead

That can get us to the 6th seed. This team should be better than the Pistons. We are going to need Barnes, RJ and the other younger players to be better and produce more.

I'm usually very rational when it comes to our team at this point and Im gonna be very honest here. There is not a single team in the East that concerns me. I think this team stacks up very well with every one of them. Even if we get injuries the team has a good young player at every single position ready to show out. They also have tons of depth at the wing. This is the Indiana/OKC/Houston model weve seen here from these successful teams recently and Toronto has nailed it. Young vets with Ingram and Poeltl. Young talent at every position keeping things competitive ready to take a larger role. And tons of versatility.

Really anything less than 50 wins would be a dissapointment to me and I know thats a huge leap but the talent is there. I think Quickley is the key. If he stays healthy I see this team able to be a home seed in the East.

Scottie and IQ will need to take a step. That is very possible and expected considering their contracts.

We would also need Ingram to get to his prior all star level. That is also expected with his extension.

Then we have solid pieces in Poeltl, Dick, Walter, Shead, CMB and hopefully more emerge as strong role players.

[tsherkin]

Scottie and IQ will need to take a step. That is very possible and expected considering their contracts.

Pretty much nothing suggests Scottie is likely to take a step, so I won't be holding my breath for that. Not sure where we'd expect IQ to step to at this point. He's about to be 26, he has a half-decade of NBA experience. He's a little guard who doesn't get to the rim and has historically been very weak inside the arc. He shoots 3s and he's a decent passer. He doesn't drive a ton, he's a very direct and simplistic passer (although shorted a little by our weak shooting). He's not going to get bigger or more athletic and he's unlikely to suddenly turn into Chris Paul in the middle, though he should look better at the rim this year.

Neither of them are areas where I'd really be looking for major improvement. But Quick just being healthy and present would be a pretty big deal for us. That alone would help our spacing and offense, and then if BI's around for 2/3s of the season, so much the better.

[Anticon]

Poeltl / Sandro
Barnes / CMB
Ingram / Walter / Mogbo
Barrett / Agbaji / Dick
Quickely / Shead

That can get us to the 6th seed. This team should be better than the Pistons. We are going to need Barnes, RJ and the other younger players to be better and produce more.

I'm usually very rational when it comes to our team at this point and Im gonna be very honest here. There is not a single team in the East that concerns me. I think this team stacks up very well with every one of them. Even if we get injuries the team has a good young player at every single position ready to show out. They also have tons of depth at the wing. This is the Indiana/OKC/Houston model weve seen here from these successful teams recently and Toronto has nailed it. Young vets with Ingram and Poeltl. Young talent at every position keeping things competitive ready to take a larger role. And tons of versatility.

Really anything less than 50 wins would be a dissapointment to me and I know thats a huge leap but the talent is there. I think Quickley is the key. If he stays healthy I see this team able to be a home seed in the East.

If Scottie can shoot, the sky's the limit.

[GLF]

Scottie and IQ will need to take a step. That is very possible and expected considering their contracts.

Pretty much nothing suggests Scottie is likely to take a step, so I won't be holding my breath for that. Not sure where we'd expect IQ to step to at this point. He's about to be 26, he has a half-decade of NBA experience. He's a little guard who doesn't get to the rim and has historically been very weak inside the arc. He shoots 3s and he's a decent passer. He doesn't drive a ton, he's a very direct and simplistic passer (although shorted a little by our weak shooting). He's not going to get bigger or more athletic and he's unlikely to suddenly turn into Chris Paul in the middle, though he should look better at the rim this year.

Neither of them are areas where I'd really be looking for major improvement. But Quick just being healthy and present would be a pretty big deal for us. That alone would help our spacing and offense, and then if BI's around for 2/3s of the season, so much the better.

Where I think IQ can get better in terms of in the paint is his floater. In New York his floater was one of the best in the league, I believe top 3-5. Since he’s come here he has not hit it at the same clip. I’m hoping he can get back to that at least. He’s done it before for multiple seasons so it’s not out of the question that he can do it again. But yes, I don’t expect any significant improvement from him. Just him being healthy is improvement enough for this team currently

[kalel123]

Looks more like a quality 3rd big. Maybe better than those G league scrubs we find from garbage bins. Basically hoping to stop a 10-inch hole with 5-inch stopper. Water still leaks.

Smells like Aron Baynes type of signing. Remember how excited we were for that one and what it ended up being?

[NinjaBro]

Pensare is all pumped up with this signing!

[tsherkin]

Where I think IQ can get better in terms of in the paint is his floater. In New York his floater was one of the best in the league, I believe top 3-5. Since he’s come here he has not hit it at the same clip. I’m hoping he can get back to that at least. He’s done it before for multiple seasons so it’s not out of the question that he can do it again. But yes, I don’t expect any significant improvement from him. Just him being healthy is improvement enough for this team currently

If nothing else, he'll have at least one spacer big to work with, plus BI, so he he should be able to make good on more of his passes. He was at around 10.5 potential assists per game last year.

But yes, just being healthy will be good enough. And I am curious to see how he'll look with Mamu in what minutes they share.

[GLF]

Where I think IQ can get better in terms of in the paint is his floater. In New York his floater was one of the best in the league, I believe top 3-5. Since he’s come here he has not hit it at the same clip. I’m hoping he can get back to that at least. He’s done it before for multiple seasons so it’s not out of the question that he can do it again. But yes, I don’t expect any significant improvement from him. Just him being healthy is improvement enough for this team currently

If nothing else, he'll have at least one spacer big to work with, plus BI, so he he should be able to make good on more of his passes. He was at around 10.5 potential assists per game last year.

But yes, just being healthy will be good enough. And I am curious to see how he'll look with Mamu in what minutes they share.

Agreed. I think the biggest thing that will help IQ this season (if we stay relatively healthy) is he will get to play off ball a lot more. He was able to play off ball with the Knicks bc of Brunson and how many minutes he plays and how much the ball is in his hands. I think something like that can help with IQ getting back to being more efficient with the floater and getting even better looks from the 3 point line. Just making things easier for him, because he’s not a lead guard in the sense of getting into the paint and making things happen. So with BI here and everyone moving down a notch in the pecking order because of BI, I think it will help him the most. Fingers crossed.

[Ari_Emanuel]

Love, love, LOVE this move.

[pingpongrac]

Great pickup. Mamu looked good in his limited minutes in his rookie season in Milwaukee then had some great games in SA over the past few seasons. Not a good defender at all, but he rebounds well and has some pretty solid playmaking chops for a big while having the ability to stretch the floor. I think he will be a pretty big piece in the rotation and excel in Toronto.

[ontnut]

Good stopgap backup C. Smart move because he plays completely different from Poeltl and (eventually...) Chomche.

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