Bleacher Report: Raps one of 5 teams to get worse

[OhCanada]

How do some of these hacks have jobs?

I get not liking the direction of the team but does Mo Dakhil know the definition of “worse”?

There is no argument you can make that this team got worse. Criticize them all you want but at least use the English language correctly if you’re going to be a writer.

They write well and parrot popular trends.

[SpezNc]

Mo is a pretty good read usually for what it's worth, before people start attacking the author.

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The team up north has fallen on some tough times. The Toronto Raptors have made a change in their front office, parting ways with team president Masai Ujiri. Their offseason has been relatively quiet, but they are on this list for past sins.

The Raptors' big move was re-signing their big man Jakob Poeltl to a three-year $84 million. That's not a bad deal, considering Poeltl's per-36 minutes stats: he'd be a double-double machine, averaging 17.6 points, 11.7 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks.

However, zooming out, this is an incredibly expensive roster that is not going anywhere. Toronto is set to be a first apron team with over $156 million committed to Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, Immanuel Quickley, RJ Barrett, and Poeltl.

Trading for Ingram at the deadline and giving him a three-year $120 million contract extension when there was barely a trade market for him. The contract they have given Quickley has been a failure, as he only played 33 games last season for Toronto.

This offseason should have been a chance to shed some of these contracts and start building a team that works around Barnes, the jewel of the Raptors.

Instead, this will be an expensive play-in team at best.

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I think it’s a lazy analysis.

Yes our cap situation is not ideal and we are currently over the first apron . But there is many ways to be below the threshold and there is no rush

Yes our top5 players are very expensive but we don’t have any dead weight or any true negative asset.

Our bench player are very inexpensive.

There is a lot of room for internal growth

The main problem is normally a team with internal growth potential would be below the luxury tax threshold

Therefore it’s a bit unusual for a team to be that close to luxury tax even when in the middle of a reset (where we are in our life cycle) .

But it’s not the end of the world

Raptors have the control of all our draft picks. This is significant.

When a team has no future draft capital to trade , this is when the future get blurred IMO.

When you have your draft picks, you can always pivot

Pure Dead weight contract ? None
Draft picks? we have all our draft pick
Potential for internal growth? Yes

Don’t get me wrong , our position is not ideal and yes this team cost a bit more than what it should be.

But it’s definitely not critical

[Parataxis]

Mo is a pretty good read usually for what it's worth, before people start attacking the author.

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The team up north has fallen on some tough times. The Toronto Raptors have made a change in their front office, parting ways with team president Masai Ujiri. Their offseason has been relatively quiet, but they are on this list for past sins.

The Raptors' big move was re-signing their big man Jakob Poeltl to a three-year $84 million. That's not a bad deal, considering Poeltl's per-36 minutes stats: he'd be a double-double machine, averaging 17.6 points, 11.7 rebounds, and 1.5 blocks.

However, zooming out, this is an incredibly expensive roster that is not going anywhere. Toronto is set to be a first apron team with over $156 million committed to Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram, Immanuel Quickley, RJ Barrett, and Poeltl.

Trading for Ingram at the deadline and giving him a three-year $120 million contract extension when there was barely a trade market for him. The contract they have given Quickley has been a failure, as he only played 33 games last season for Toronto.

This offseason should have been a chance to shed some of these contracts and start building a team that works around Barnes, the jewel of the Raptors.

Instead, this will be an expensive play-in team at best.

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[Westside Gunn]

Just check broey's linkedin, and he is a recruiter turned podcaster to some kind of basketball journalist.

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