PG: Raps Drain the Swamp In Washington

[FAH1223]

Gortat has a $13.5M expiring contract. I don't know if there'll be any takers. He's a dinosaur in the NBA at this point.

Mahinmi's $30M left over the next 2 years is the biggest issue salary wise. I think we'll have to attach our 2019 1st to get rid of him. Let Gortat expire. Draft a young big in the upcoming draft.

We'd have been in good shape if we had not signed Mahinmi, Smith and Nicholson. Nicholson they traded to Brooklyn along with our 2017 1st round pick (Jarrett Allen) for Bogdanovic and McCullough. Bojan is in Indiana and McCullogh isn't an NBA player IMO. Allen would be the perfect young C to have on the roster and he'd be the starter going forward... and have Gortat be a bench guy. Sigh.

Not sure it's the best solution, but I think Porter would be a pretty great trade chip. You can get glue for cheaper. Someone like Andre Drummond will likely be available, and while he's not perfect he can play off Wall/Beal a lot better than Gortat/Mahinmi at this point. imo, you guys have to dump Morris, he's toxic and not what you need more of.

Porter's a terrible contract though. I can't see teams giving up anything good for him. Given the length of the contract they might have to attach a pick to get rid of it.

And the Wiz can’t afford to keep giving up picks

Mahinmi is the worst contract though


Otto can at least play winning basketball.

[diamondsfinest]

Im watching a replay of the 4th quarter and stephen a smith was sitting right under the basket. When lowry drove to the rim and scored at the 4 minute mark you could see SAS put his head in his hand, man was in shambles

i'm sure peoples minds were blown to finally see the Raptors close out an opponent like NBA Veterans and completely dismantling them, I was a little surprised myself to actually see Siakam and Valanciunas play, they've actually done really well together, and we just witnessed a team send a franchise packing to the sound of a booing home crowd.

So the Raptors might just panac for a game or two but they certainly find a way in the end. There's like one lineup this playoffs with more than like 10 minutes lol thats throwing at a dart board style so that John Wall had no f***** clue what the heck he was supposed to do in the 4th quarter because Stackhouse might be guarding him for all he knows.

We have Homer Simpson as a coach folks

[Northface82]

bahahahahahaha

[RonaldArtest]

Bradley beal is a better offense player than dipo

[RaptorsLife]

Bradley beal is a better offense player than dipo

Well its true so

[RaptorsNorth]

Im watching a replay of the 4th quarter and stephen a smith was sitting right under the basket. When lowry drove to the rim and scored at the 4 minute mark you could see SAS put his head in his hand, man was in shambles

HOO MAN!!!! HO HO HO HOOO

[mashiach]

Bradley beal is a better offense player than dipo

Well its true so

no.

[bon]

Bradley beal is a better offense player than dipo

Well its true so

Nah, Oladipo has the speed and ball handling of Wall with Beal's shooting. He's a lot tougher to stop

[UnRealGM]

One of our posters, Kevin Broom, has a blog. He uses a metric he developed called PPA. I agree with its accuracy.

https://kevinbroom.com/ppa/

dat nigel hayes tho

[lebron stopper]

Well its true so

Nah, Oladipo has the speed and ball handling of Wall with Beal's shooting. He's a lot tougher to stop

Good thing we didn't sign the guy who locked him up in Indiana, Malcolm Miller (Reggie Miller's cousin), onto the playoff roster

[lebron stopper]

One of our posters, Kevin Broom, has a blog. He uses a metric he developed called PPA. I agree with its accuracy.

https://kevinbroom.com/ppa/

dat nigel hayes tho

Watch on YouTube

[dukes_wild]

It's really not that crazy to say Beal is the better offensive player.

Oladipo gets to the FT line just a tad more and finishes inside at a slightly better %, but other than that the way they go about scoring, the efficiency they score at, their assist%s are all extremely close.

There's a huge difference defensively and that's why Oladipo will make an All-NBA team and Beal won't, but people laughing at RL's post of saying Beal is the better offensive player is sort of unfair

[RaptorsLife]

It's really not that crazy to say Beal is the better offensive player.

Oladipo gets to the FT line just a tad more and finishes inside at a slightly better %, but other than that the way they go about scoring, the efficiency they score at, their assist%s are all extremely close.

There's a huge difference defensively and that's why Oladipo will make an All-NBA team and Beal won't, but people laughing at RL's post of saying Beal is the better offensive player is sort of unfair

Thank my nogeria. If beal was first option like dipo he would have better stats. Beal was much better against us than dipo against Cavs

[ThatClockWork]

We both know there are SEVERAL playoff games over the last 5 seasons.

Doesn’t mean he’s really bad. His team has made the playoffs the past 5 seasons with him being one of the leaders and he’s gotten out of the first round the last 3 including an ECF appearance. His numbers aren’t outstanding but they are decent. He has a better fg% than harden in the playoffs. Yes I do think he sometimes takes bad shots but it doesn’t justify him being a bad player.

OK so gawd forbid Derozan is out, is anyone on here happy at that prospect? Nope didn't think so. Derozan bashers are first class jack offs.

oh cry me a river. We expect better decision making from our first option consistently and that's nothing but constructive criticism. Clearly we need him at his best to beat anyone in the spring. He needs to understand that.

[RonaldArtest]

Bradley beal is a better offense player than dipo

Well its true so

Because you say so? Statistically Oladipo trumps Beal this past season in just about every offensive category. Not to mention he has to initiate the offence which Beal largely does not. Beal might be the better pure shooter between the two, but that's about it. Dipo has a better drive game, tighter handles, finishes better at the rim, better playmaker, and he's still a very capable shooter all with higher usage.

[CobraCommander]

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The ghost of Jan Vesely haunts you still...

Saw him in my nightmares last night -


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[CobraCommander]

Y'all got a great backcourt duo.
See you guys next year in the playoffs

Dude...without a bench and major shake ups? This team has 2 players and a bunch of dudes that shouldn’t start or play in the NBA.

Like I said good luck to y’all in the future.

You guys got a good starting lineup tho. Otto Porter? He's a great SF

He is fragile and disappears often!


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[Kabookalu]

I like Porter, but his inability to be a ballhandler makes it harder for Wall and Beal to do their thing. With your current construct since I don't think Porter is going anywhere, finding another ballhandler that plays PF/C would do wonders. Maybe not even a ballhandling PF/C, but someone in the veins of Al Horford who's a great decision maker from the high post and beyond the 3 point line. Markieff is okay at times with his passing, but Gortat just isn't going to cut it.