Bobby Webster Press Conference Today (First as the Boss)

[ATLTimekeeper]

Crazy how much is already changing since Bobby took over.

Just a year ago Masai was parading Scottie and IQ as the franchise's future when he announced their extensions at the same time, at that team event.

Fast forward to now and it's Ingram and Scottie, with Bobby already anticipating the negative attention his contract will start to get when the whole fanbase realizes they're heavily de-emphasizing his scoring relative to what a max player usually provides.

I think that was more of a general pressure that comes to max players. I doubt he was saying, 'well Scottie isn't going to earn his deal and the fans will notice.' Max players always have that talking point in the media, and because the question was about his extension kicking in Bobby said those questions will come up. I think the simple solution is to win. No one cares what Mobley's ppg is.

[Jerry Lucas]

Keep seeing the "Bobby wasn't as into the Ingram trade as Masai was" talking point brought up.

But honestly, people should look back and watch Masai's first presser talking about the Ingram trade and compare it to Bobby's.

Bobby definitely seems like the one who is more excited about having acquired Ingram.

[Quattro]

Keep seeing the "Bobby wasn't as into the Ingram trade as Masai was" talking point brought up.
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Dont worry. If Ingram plays really well, those same people will start saying Bobby was really pushing for the trade and Masai had to be convinced.

[mademan]

Bobby is completely out on Scottie as a scorer, this is the 2nd time he emphasized defense and de-emphasized scoring. He watched last season in horror like the rest of us.

He said Scottie will have to turn out noise about his contract, which shows that they anticipate some pushback as they try and deemphasize the scoring and focus on more connecting play and def.

I also don't know why they keep saying everyone has to earn their minutes defensively - yet every just slides RJ into the SL like there's no other options.

Crazy how much is already changing since Bobby took over.

Just a year ago Masai was parading Scottie and IQ as the franchise's future when he announced their extensions at the same time, at that team event.

Fast forward to now and it's Ingram and Scottie, with Bobby already anticipating the negative attention his contract will start to get when the whole fanbase realizes they're heavily de-emphasizing his scoring relative to what a max player usually provides.

There's some politics here. While i like some of the players, it's hard not to objectively rate the Raptors outlook as poor. Yes, we have some young talent, some high rated guys who were top picks, who, for some reason or another, havent lived up to it (Ingram/RJ), and yes, there is some hope or optimism that they can turn it around and be huge for us. But the most likely thing in the NBA has always been that players continue to be who they are, and the guys who make the big jumps are the exception.

Sure, IQ can look a really good starting PG, and RJ might come back with a much improved jump shot/defense and Ingram might give us 70 games of star play, but you cant bet on that. Bobby is right to distance himself from "Masai's Team".