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When you look at this roster, there’s a clear glut at the 2/3/4.

A lot has been said about the wing glut between RJ/Jakobe/Dick/Ochai. But there isn’t that much convo about how Mogbo doesn’t really fit with CMB on the team.

Both Mogbo and CMB play like undersized non-floor spacing Centers. CMB is clearly the better prospect.

As constructed, Mogbo can’t play extended mins at either PF or C.

We’ve talked a lot about trading RJ. Since there’s no market for him, IMO Mogbo is actually the more likely trade prospect (athletic hustle big on a rookie deal). They are guaranteed to make a move to duck the tax. It’s possible we send them out together in a star deal, when you think about this logically.


I’ve already started wondering where Mogbo might end up (Chicago? Sacramento?). He won’t be here past the trade deadline.

He's Scottie's best friend and he's not going anywhere

You can only have a glut when you have multiple productive players. Most of this roster is replaceable and hasn’t proven anything in this league.

Grew wrote:He's Scottie's best friend and he's not going anywhere

I thought that too, but that’s defeatist thinking. By this deadline, that’s 2 seasons with your childhood friend-that’s pretty good.

The idea is to trade Mogbo for someone better. Scottie cares about winning, and he’s already signed here, and not an All NBA player. We don’t need to hold the trigger if there’s a deal available.

hes an older rookie so his 2nd year is very important, he needs to show a tad of improvement, we are very weak still at the big position and cant give up on a second year guy

If he just pushes his percentages up a bit, works on that 3, he'll be an excellent starter.

Grew wrote:He's Scottie's best friend and he's not going anywhere

Being Scottie’s boy means absolutely nothing he ain’t a superstar

He fairly versatile. I was hoping he'd play more like a wing but maybe the directions changed. He's a good point forward and his finishing ability looks much better.

I think he's the best player to put next to a Mamu archetype. I think Mogbo, Agbaji and Walter would give us a very good perimeter defense. The help defense would be concerning though.

The fit with CMB is tough. We asked Mogbo to be a C last year and now he'll be kind of a SF.

Mamu
CMB
Mogbo / Agbaji
Dick
Shead

I think it's an internal competition between Agbaji and Mogbo. One of them will go and I think it'll be Agbaji.

I don't see why he can't be 3rd in the depth chart behind Scottie and CMB. Every team needs 3rd stringers

TakeYourHeart wrote:I don't see why he can't be 3rd in the depth chart behind Scottie and CMB. Every team needs 3rd stringers

This board seems to not understand depth can be a good thing

If he has to be a throw in to a bigger trade... sure. But you don't look to trade him.

Its been like 5 or 6 years since Mogbo has returned to the same team from the previous season.
Let's give him a chance.

This assumes he has trade value, which is probably optimistic.

I'm still content to have him be a poor man's Scottie off the bench and/or in the G-league and see what happens.

NoBias wrote:

Grew wrote:He's Scottie's best friend and he's not going anywhere

Being Scottie’s boy means absolutely nothing he ain’t a superstar

they drafted him and gave him a guaranteed contract, being scotties friend definitely helped.

bad take. We do not have a glut problem at the 3/4/5

If anything we have an issue at the 2 and a shortage at the 5. And even that isn't a big issue. We don't want a mogbo trade. He just needs to keep improving.

Can you not imagine a wing rotation with three absolute stud defenders who can all defend multiple positions? Mogbo is a corner three and better rim efficiency away from being an elite role player.

Depth is a good thing. competition is a good thing. Let CMB and Mogbo fight to earn minutes.

Believe it or not, but Barnes and CMB will likely miss games with injuries. Having Mogbo around will help during those times.

Finally having playable depth is a good thing. He can still improve a bunch and we have already seen some improvement over last year.

I wouldn't "look" to move him, but he obviously isn't untouchable regardless of being Barnes friend or not.

He is such a stupid pick. Dont get me wrong he is decent but the consensus 1st pick in the 2nd rd was flipkowski which would have solved the back up C issue. Not even sure where Mogbo was projected but he definitely was not at the top and played the friend card

we're pretty thin in our frontcourt, and Mogbo is one of our best defenders on a minimum deal. Don't see this being an issue right now, perhaps in a year if he looks really good and we need to decide whether to extend him or not.

He's young. He's comparably cheap. Raptors are under no obligation to clear the way for him. If he pops, great. If he doesn't, there is a lot worse bench fodder and G-league bus riders in this league. There is zero rush with Mogbo and definitely no need to trade him in his 2Y.

Yes. It is inevitable Mogbo is traded before the end of his career.

no dice wrote:He is such a stupid pick. Dont get me wrong he is decent but the consensus 1st pick in the 2nd rd was flipkowski which would have solved the back up C issue. Not even sure where Mogbo was projected but he definitely was not at the top and played the friend card

Well Mogbo was projected to go early 2nd, if you don't know why would you assume
2nd, Kyle was never an option for Toronto, maybe you probably don't know as well but 2nd rounders & agents dictate where they land in the 2nd round it shouldn't be a surprise to you that white Mormon kid ended up in UTAH,

it was never a stupid pick, it's the pick you didn't know about because you don't have scouts around the world like mgmt does