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causal_fan wrote:Dalano Banton may/may not have an NBA future but the Raptors spent 8m to keep Thad Young & 3m to have a babysitter in Temple, yet couldn't find a way to keep Banton - disgraceful.
causal_fan wrote:Dalano Banton may/may not have an NBA future but the Raptors spent 8m to keep Thad Young & 3m to have a babysitter in Temple, yet couldn't find a way to keep Banton - disgraceful.
johanliebert wrote:causal_fan wrote:Dalano Banton may/may not have an NBA future but the Raptors spent 8m to keep Thad Young & 3m to have a babysitter in Temple, yet couldn't find a way to keep Banton - disgraceful.
I'd love to see him play well for a longer stretch and not in the closing stretch for a lotto team.
links135 wrote:Pointgod wrote:sbsat wrote:
Orlando has sucked forever but I guess thats irrelevant.
Cole Anthony was the 15th pick, Fultz was traded for a top 20 protected pick, Suggs was picked one pick after Barnes and Black was a lottery pick last year. Laughable to say they’ve sucked forever to get their guards. They actually value guard skills even though they’ve prioritized length size and length in their players as well.
They've literally been mediocre for at least a decade beside that one year we beat them in the 1st round. They also won the #1 pick in Bancharo.
Flynn was picked 29th, although bringing up Bane is a good point.
Pointgod wrote:links135 wrote:Pointgod wrote:
Cole Anthony was the 15th pick, Fultz was traded for a top 20 protected pick, Suggs was picked one pick after Barnes and Black was a lottery pick last year. Laughable to say they’ve sucked forever to get their guards. They actually value guard skills even though they’ve prioritized length size and length in their players as well.
They've literally been mediocre for at least a decade beside that one year we beat them in the 1st round. They also won the #1 pick in Bancharo.
Flynn was picked 29th, although bringing up Bane is a good point.
It’s not only that we missed out on Bane **** happens (although it does show the value of having multiple late picks) but the front office though Flynn was a capable back up for 4 seasons. He’s been traded twice in one season and can’t get minutes on one of the worst teams in the league. I honestly don’t know if he’ll even be in the league next season . I’m pointing out how Orlando was able to build a rotation of 4 quality PG’s with a combo of lottery picks, trades and mid round picks while our main backup was a dude that might be playing in China next year.
Pointgod wrote:links135 wrote:Pointgod wrote:
Cole Anthony was the 15th pick, Fultz was traded for a top 20 protected pick, Suggs was picked one pick after Barnes and Black was a lottery pick last year. Laughable to say they’ve sucked forever to get their guards. They actually value guard skills even though they’ve prioritized length size and length in their players as well.
They've literally been mediocre for at least a decade beside that one year we beat them in the 1st round. They also won the #1 pick in Bancharo.
Flynn was picked 29th, although bringing up Bane is a good point.
It’s not only that we missed out on Bane **** happens (although it does show the value of having multiple late picks) but the front office though Flynn was a capable back up for 4 seasons. He’s been traded twice in one season and can’t get minutes on one of the worst teams in the league. I honestly don’t know if he’ll even be in the league next season . I’m pointing out how Orlando was able to build a rotation of 4 quality PG’s with a combo of lottery picks, trades and mid round picks while our main backup was a dude that might be playing in China next year.
Fairview4Life wrote:We traded 5 first overall picks for Jakob Purtle and Kelly Olynyk! oh no!
It's funny that we traded Pascal for 3 "non-lottery picks", but when it comes to trading out picks for players they are just picks, that can mean anything. Likely 2 first rounders! There's no difference between pick 1 and pick 30.
Duffman100 wrote:3 draft picks for Poeltl and 1 for KO /Ochai = 5 picks?
Oh Koloko…. Yeah let’s put a random career ending injury against the FO. That makes sense.
ciueli wrote:Duffman100 wrote:3 draft picks for Poeltl and 1 for KO /Ochai = 5 picks?
Oh Koloko…. Yeah let’s put a random career ending injury against the FO. That makes sense.
They started Koloko the season they drafted him, and he was terrible, no surprise a second round rookie wasn't a decent quality starting centre, or even a decent quality backup centre. That's the point, that was actually their plan alongside Precious being the starting C until he got injured.
Fairview4Life wrote:Koloko wasn't terrible in his first season. His defensive metrics were very good.
ciueli wrote:Fairview4Life wrote:Koloko wasn't terrible in his first season. His defensive metrics were very good.
Literally one game in his entire career where he scored in double digits (an 11 point game) in 58 games and his True Shooting for that season was 51.7%, horrible for a player who is not expected to do anything but attempt dunks or layups at the rim. He's a career -3.5 Box +/-, a career -0.3 VORP. He was 5.7 Fouls per 36, so he was a foul machine and essentially fouling out per 36. And they started him 19 games at the beginning of his rookie season. After they realized playing him was costing them games they buried him on the G-League for much of the rest of the season, only bringing him back in a lightly used bench role towards the end once Poeltl was on the roster (only 8 games in double digit minutes after being sent to the G-League).
