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Rank your top 5 raptors 

Post#1 » by TheDunc » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:02 pm

Rank your favorite top 5 raptor players not based on winning, maybe you just love their game or personality, mindset etc. Doesnt matter if your reasoning is different for each player

1. Derozan
2. Lowry
3. Siakam
4. Leonard
5. Carter

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1. Siakam
2. Lowry
3. Powell
4. JYD
5. Ibaka
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Post#3 » by LoveMyRaps » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:07 pm

1. Siakam
2. Lowry
3. Kawhi
4. Bosh
5. Calderon
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Post#4 » by tsherkin » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:08 pm

TheDunc wrote:Rank your favorite top 5 raptor players not based on winning, maybe you just love their game or personality, mindset etc. Doesnt matter if your reasoning is different for each player


Oooh, fun.


Lowry, Siakam, JYD, Calderon and Charles Oakley.

EDIT: Augh. I need to make an HM for Vince, obviously. He was a lot of fun, circa 2000, 2001.
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Post#5 » by Childs » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:09 pm

1. Alonzo Mourning
2. Hedo Turkoglu
3. Goran Dragic
4. Kenny Anderson
5. Rafael Araujo
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Post#6 » by ropjhk » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:32 pm

top 5 faves in no order:

Siakam
Lowry
Derozan
OG
Carter

HM:
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Post#7 » by Duffman100 » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:35 pm

Lowry
Siakam
Alvin Williams
Vince
Doug Christie

Soft spots for,
Calderon
Mopete
Keon Clark
Demar
Kevin Willis
Norm
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Post#8 » by tsherkin » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:38 pm

Duffman100 wrote:Lowry
Siakam
Alvin Williams
Vince
Doug Christie

Soft spots for,
Calderon
Mopete
Keon Clark
Demar
Kevin Willis
Norm


Keon Clark was fun, man; I wish he could have stayed sober with us.
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Post#9 » by Duffman100 » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:41 pm

tsherkin wrote:
Duffman100 wrote:Lowry
Siakam
Alvin Williams
Vince
Doug Christie

Soft spots for,
Calderon
Mopete
Keon Clark
Demar
Kevin Willis
Norm


Keon Clark was fun, man; I wish he could have stayed sober with us.


Keon had the first 'throw in' dunk of my memory (against the Mavericks I think?)

We all thought he was a big saviour and was gonna take us to another level. Agreed, shame.
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Post#10 » by Brinbe » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:42 pm

1. Loren Woods
2. Mengke Bateer
3. Chris Jeffries
4. DeeAndre Hullet
5. Garth Joseph
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Post#11 » by tsherkin » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:42 pm

Duffman100 wrote:Keon had the first 'throw in' dunk of my memory (against the Mavericks I think?)


Yeah, the Lanky Left boom dunk, I remember that.

We all thought he was a big saviour and was gonna take us to another level. Agreed, shame.


He was fun. Solid defender. Athletic dude. Ugly turnaround J that always seemed to fall. I loved that team, man.
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Post#12 » by Clutch0z24 » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:43 pm

1.Kawhi (Just so fun to watch anytime he played for us)
2.Lowry
3.Carter (In his Prime for us was nothing like him)
4.DeRozan
5.Bosh

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Post#13 » by ishoy123 » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:46 pm

Brinbe wrote:1. Loren Woods
2. Mengke Bateer
3. Chris Jeffries
4. DeeAndre Hullet
5. Garth Joseph


Where is Aleksandar Radojević
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Post#14 » by OakleyDokely » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:47 pm

Muggsy Bogues - made a career in the nba despite being barely over 5ft.
Amir Johnson - cool dude
Jamario Moon - cool name and most underrated dunker in Raptors history
Hakeem Olajuwon - didn't work out, but I can't believe there's actual footage of the dream in a purple raptors jersey
OG+Ibaka - what about scarves
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Post#15 » by Brinbe » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:47 pm

ishoy123 wrote:
Brinbe wrote:1. Loren Woods
2. Mengke Bateer
3. Chris Jeffries
4. DeeAndre Hullet
5. Garth Joseph


Where is Aleksandar Radojević

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Post#16 » by tsherkin » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:48 pm

Brinbe wrote:1. Loren Woods
2. Mengke Bateer
3. Chris Jeffries
4. DeeAndre Hullet
5. Garth Joseph


I love this list, but where's Pops Mensah-Bonsu?
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Post#17 » by NinjaBro » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:48 pm

1 Roko Ukic
2 Alan Anderson
3 Marcus Banks
4 Jamario Moon
5 Anthony Bennett
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Post#18 » by tsherkin » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:49 pm

OakleyDokely wrote:Hakeem Olajuwon - didn't work out, but I can't believe there's actual footage of the dream in a purple raptors jersey


That was fun, even though he was old, broken and crap. It was just need to have that kind of player on the team for the aura, I guess. Did enjoy.
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Post#19 » by OakleyDokely » Mon Jun 2, 2025 6:51 pm

tsherkin wrote:
OakleyDokely wrote:Hakeem Olajuwon - didn't work out, but I can't believe there's actual footage of the dream in a purple raptors jersey


That was fun, even though he was old, broken and crap. It was just need to have that kind of player on the team for the aura, I guess. Did enjoy.


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OakleyDokely wrote:
tsherkin wrote:
OakleyDokely wrote:Hakeem Olajuwon - didn't work out, but I can't believe there's actual footage of the dream in a purple raptors jersey


That was fun, even though he was old, broken and crap. It was just need to have that kind of player on the team for the aura, I guess. Did enjoy.


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I remember him seeing do a Dream Shake, and that was super awesome. Like, flashes, memories of what used to be and all that. Kinda like MJ tossing up fades in Washington on a good night. He had a couple games that were fun. The one I remember most was a game against Detroit. He had 20 rebounds and 5 blocks and shot pretty well, one of his best scoring performances of the season. Vince had a good game. Rest of the starters didn't do well, bench mob was good. Effin Clifford Robinson lit us up in the second half, and then Vince and Dream faded in the 4th. But man, he seemed like he blocked every shot and grabbed every rebound. I had to look up the specific numbers, of course, because it's been a billion years, but I remember just feeling like he was EVERYWHERE that game, because he basically was.

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