Remind me why the Raptors traded Norman Powell

[LBJKB24MJ23]

pretty sure we all thought he was getting $20M + per year before we traded him and we saw that he got a very cheap deal. Masai overplayed his hand.

it happens. move on.

[YogurtProducer]

We traded a win-now player for a prospect, but then went full throttle treadmill the next two years anyway. Masai had no idea what he wanted to do from 2021-2024.

Didn't we trade Norm and immediately tank for Barnes..?

Yeah, and then treadmilled the next two years.

And by treadmill you mean won 48 games with the ROTY and a core of guys under the age of 27, and then ONE single season of making a win-now move (Jakob).

So by "treamilling for two years" you mean "I am upset over 1 singular move".

[Raps in 4]

Didn't we trade Norm and immediately tank for Barnes..?

Yeah, and then treadmilled the next two years.

And by treadmill you mean won 48 games with the ROTY and a core of guys under the age of 27, and then ONE single season of making a win-now move (Jakob).

So by "treamilling for two years" you mean "I am upset over 1 singular move".

We traded one FRP for Thad, and another one (a top-10 pick) for Yak.

[YogurtProducer]

Yeah, and then treadmilled the next two years.

And by treadmill you mean won 48 games with the ROTY and a core of guys under the age of 27, and then ONE single season of making a win-now move (Jakob).

So by "treamilling for two years" you mean "I am upset over 1 singular move".

We traded one FRP for Thad, and another one (a top-10 pick) for Yak.

No, we traded down 10 slots for Thad's birds rights and cap flexability more than anything.

[artsncrafts]

And by treadmill you mean won 48 games with the ROTY and a core of guys under the age of 27, and then ONE single season of making a win-now move (Jakob).

So by "treamilling for two years" you mean "I am upset over 1 singular move".

We traded one FRP for Thad, and another one (a top-10 pick) for Yak.

No, we traded down 10 slots for Thad's birds rights and cap flexability more than anything.

Thad was always trash so unless through that cap accounting we got a pick or something, it was a bad move.

[TheGeneral99]

pretty sure we all thought he was getting $20M + per year before we traded him and we saw that he got a very cheap deal. Masai overplayed his hand.

it happens. move on.

Powell was 29 years old and got offered a 5 years, 90m deal.

Gary was 23 years old and signed a 3 years 54m deal.

In retrospect obviously would have been much better to keep Powell, but at the time you can't really fault management for signing a cheaper and younger player with more "potential."

[LBJKB24MJ23]

pretty sure we all thought he was getting $20M + per year before we traded him and we saw that he got a very cheap deal. Masai overplayed his hand.

it happens. move on.

Powell was 29 years old and got offered a 5 years, 90m deal.

Gary was 23 years old and signed a 3 years 54m deal.

In retrospect obviously would have been much better to keep Powell, but at the time you can't really fault management for signing a cheaper and younger player with more "potential."

I mean hindsight 2020 something something.

[WaltFrazier]

pretty sure we all thought he was getting $20M + per year before we traded him and we saw that he got a very cheap deal. Masai overplayed his hand.

it happens. move on.

... but at the time you can't really fault management for signing a cheaper and younger player with more "potential."

Unless of course you expect management to be good judges of talent.