BullyKing wrote:YogurtProducer wrote:Jadoogar wrote:
you just admitted that they traded 2 veterans starters for young prospects. It's not an OKC tear down but it's a rebuild
Roughly 18 months ago the Raps played in the 2nd round using a playoff rotation of Lowry/FVV/Powell/OG/Siakam/Ibaka/Gasol.
3 guys from that remain and are replaced with GTJ, Precious, Barnes, and to a lesser extent Boucher/Birch/Thad. How that is not a rebuild I will not understand.
Somehow if you rebuild and are good it does not count. Rebuilding only counts if you win 20 games and get a top 3 pick for 5 straight years

Because pretty much every single team can something similar. A year ago the Sixers were playing Simmons, Curry, Dwight Howard, and Mike Scott. All gone.
Like I've never seen a fan base more deadset on labeling normal roster turnover as a rebuild all so they can have an excuse when they lose.
RealGM crashed and I lost a longer post, but long story short:
Simmons requested a trade, Curry was traded for
James Harden, and Howard/Scott were replaced by other vets like Millsap, Drummond, DeAndre, etc.
The Raptors started a rookie 82 games, started no one over the age of 27, had no vets over the age of 29 before they overachieved and grabbed Thad, told a vet in Dragic to go home and played Banton over him, force fed Precious minutes even though as a center he shot lower than 40% from the field until the New Year, etc.
Not sure what else you call a rebuild than sign and trading the best player in franchise history, not re-signing Gasol/Ibaka/Danny Green, trading Powell for a younger/inferior player in GTJ, not playing Dragic, etc. Seriously, how is that NOT a rebuild?
Not every rebuild looks like Philly's process, or whatever half the bottom feeders in the NBA do for 10 years (like the Raptors themselves did for many many years with no results).