ConSarnit wrote:The crux of this thread does not exactly create an enthusiastic environment going into never season. This era relies on a guy who you’re lucky to get 65 games out of and who at his peak is a low level all-star. Not exactly a glowing endorsement for this era of Raptors ball.
I get that we have to work with what we have but I doubt many of us would have been thrilled to hear that we’d come out of the Siakam/FVV era only to enter the Brandon Ingram era (which does not exactly scream “threat” to the rest of the league).
Games played last season:
- Tatum played 72
- Mitchell played 71
- Curry, Lebron, Cade & Jokic played 70
- Giannis played 67
- Brown played 63
- FVV played 60
- Butler played 55
- Luka & Ja played 50
The idea that star players do not miss significant numbers of games is fallacy. All of these star players missed significant numbers of games, and their teams still managed to complete the season, and make the playoffs with decent standings.
In BI plays in only 60 games, this team will still be fine, because I'm sure a lot of those rest days of the 22 games missed will be against tanking teams the Raps won't need BI in the game to win.