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Give it all we got, win both play-in games.

Then debut Ingram in the first round vs Cleveland or Boston.

Our team has probably been practicing as a whole, behind the scenes, for 2 months by that point.

They won't know what hit them, and we make our magical run to the Finals like the Heat did as the 8th seed.

We will make the playin. Almost guaranteed at this point. But we should lose in the playin. 8th odds> 16 pick and a 1st round exit

NotMyKawhi wrote:We will make the playin. Almost guaranteed at this point. But we should lose in the playin. 8th odds> 16 pick and a 1st round exit

It’s crazy that a team could make the play-in but still pick 8th. East is too trash.

Activate the Kraken (Ingram)

Looking over Bulls schedule they play
@Magic (Magic either bounceback after these B2B losses to us, or continue their funk and lose to CHI)
@Heat
vs Pacers
vs Nets (W?)
@Rockets
@Jazz (W due to supertank Jazz)
@Suns
@Kings
@Lakers
Could easily go 2-7, especially those road games.

Raps could make serious ground over their next 5 games despite being 4 games back. They have Jazz/Wizards/Wizards/6ers/Jazz coming up LOL

Can we please merge with other play in thread?

Yeah there's no way in hell we stay at 5

It's looking like we'll be guaranteed 6-8 so we might as well be 8 and have some fun by easily beating the Hawks and then the Magic/Heat on the road in the play-in and then see what we can do against Cleveland with a healthy squad. I got Raptors in 7

Potential wrote:Yeah there's no way in hell we stay at 5

It's looking like we'll be guaranteed 6-8 so we might as well be 8 and have some fun by easily beating the Hawks and then the Magic/Heat on the road in the play-in and then see what we can do against Cleveland with a healthy squad. I got Raptors in 7

If we make the playoffs we’d be drafting 15th


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youngRAPZ wrote:

Potential wrote:Yeah there's no way in hell we stay at 5

It's looking like we'll be guaranteed 6-8 so we might as well be 8 and have some fun by easily beating the Hawks and then the Magic/Heat on the road in the play-in and then see what we can do against Cleveland with a healthy squad. I got Raptors in 7

If we make the playoffs we’d be drafting 15th


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Wow that sucks the real standings should be what it is at the end of the regular season, not after the play-in results

The odds are pretty good we make the play-in. We're only 4 games back of the tanking Bulls with like 15 games against Washington, Utah, and Charlotte remaining.

Raps in 4 wrote:The odds are pretty good we make the play-in. We're only 4 games back of the tanking Bulls with like 15 games against Washington, Utah, and Charlotte remaining.

Thankfully the best we can do is 10th and two road games just to make playoffs. A loss in one of those games gives us the 8-9 pick and a pretty damn good rookie with a gamblers chances at a top 4 pick

The lottery system isn't great the tankathon is pretty hard to watch on top of the 3pt shooting era. The NBA has to make changes and fix these problems. I already have a hard time watching this and it gets worse every year.

We don't need to see the play in. We will never make a strong run. Ingram and the team need a full training camp and several seasons before we'll even sniff the first round.

We need a high upside top 7 pick at whatever it costs. The last 20 games will be grueling but we need to find a way to lose.

We should have beat the Bulls at least once if we wanted to make the play-in. However I don’t think its all doom and gloom if we do; there isn’t anyone I really want in this draft outside of Flagg and Harper; we will still find a nice piece between 10-16 if that happens.

Raptorfan2012 wrote:We should have beat the Bulls at least once if we wanted to make the play-in. However I don’t think its all doom and gloom if we do; there isn’t anyone I really want in this draft outside of Flagg and Harper; we will still find a nice piece between 10-16 if that happens.

It's clear we aren't very good and we need development time. The lineup against the Magic at the end was stupid. We should be forcing Barnes to be a focal point on offense and isolating. It would develop his game and see if he can take the next step. Barnes has had good rebounding, defensive, passing and scoring games. It's year 4 he needs to put it together.

Barrett has been amazing. I was a hater but he's picking up steam on Barnes as the best player. He had 10 deflections last game and has been making 2+ 3s in 7 of the last 10 games.

Barnes, Barrett and IQ isn't enough to contend in this league. We also need a Poeltl like big that can defend the rim and shoot the 3. This very well could be Maluach.

The 2nd timeline could be interesting.

Maluach
Chomche
Barnes
Dick / Walter
Harper

That's a well built team.

No, can we add another top 5 pick to this group please.

8th pick is the play-in? Man why the hell did we lose to the bulls again then lol. Might as well go for it.

The upcoming schedule is as easy as it gets. Seriously we are mostly playing tanking teams. We are probably going to win more games than we lose, we are almost 100% dropping in draft position after this.

Might as well fight for a play-in spot. Get the young guns some postseason experience!

sit everyone for the love of god... make sure this does not happen

DatHomieYouHaTe wrote:sit everyone for the love of god... make sure this does not happen

Why?

DatHomieYouHaTe wrote:sit everyone for the love of god... make sure this does not happen

For what? For ping pong balls? Gambling?

Sorry, but i dont want the Raptors become a trash team that only exist for the lottery.