Raptors Select Paskal Siakam 27th

omar36 · Post #461 » by **omar36** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:24 pm

MainEvent wrote:
CrookedJ wrote:Would have been very curious how they had Siakam ranked vs Brice Johnson. As we approached the mid 20s my thoughts were that the only guy I would be pissed if we passed on was Johnson. He ended up going to LAC at 25. I think Siakam looks pretty similar to Johnson.

I think its very apparent from this pick that motor and work ethic were huge factors, and Skal and Davis seem to have flopped on those.

24) Philadelphia: Timothé Luwawu, SG (France)

25) LA Clippers: Brice Johnson, F (North Carolina)

26) Philadelphia: Furkan Korkmaz, F (Turkey)

I wonder if we had all 3 of these guys ranked higher, Brice I'd think for sure.

fk BC man, i wanted one of the two.

Kabookalu · Post #462 » by **Kabookalu** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:25 pm

Clutch Carter wrote:
[SJJ] wrote:
Risk101 wrote:Lol why does Wade care who we pick
[tweet]https://twitter.com/johnschuhmann/status/746343992757993472[/tweet]

Damn is DWade getting into web development?

I find it hard to believe DWade even knows what Pascal is. Surprising.

Is Pascal a race?

Mister Ze · Post #463 » by **Mister Ze** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:27 pm

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdm9c8UCUVk[/youtube]

Says other teams have asked him about the draft and stash concept. I'm guessing MU was one of them.

Jef · Post #464 » by **Jef** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:36 pm

No surprise Masai drafted him... Basketball Without Borders, and a great attitude to boot.... Like him and rooting for him a lot now

You know, Basketball Without Borders is a fantastic program, and Doctors Without Borders is one of the world's greatest humanitarian efforts.... but The 1992 Blue Jays Without Borders would have been a really bad turn of events

Lucky26 · Post #465 » by **Lucky26** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 7:41 pm

Class Act wrote:
Kevin Willis wrote:
Lucky26 wrote:

To white people who made these names yes. So what race are black people then?

Let's stop this conversation please. Oh man it's just hurting my eyes reading it.

I'm done. But I would just like to add that race (when applied to humans) is a social construct created by man and popularized by Americans to justify slavery!

I agree

Psubs · Post #466 » by **Psubs** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:06 pm

Jef wrote:No surprise Masai drafted him... Basketball Without Borders, and a great attitude to boot.... Like him and rooting for him a lot now

You know, Basketball Without Borders is a fantastic program, and Doctors Without Borders is one of the world's greatest humanitarian efforts.... but The 1992 Blue Jays Without Borders would have been a really bad turn of events

mattfaria12 · Post #467 » by **mattfaria12** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:15 pm

He looks like a Pops Mensah type player

ruckus · Post #468 » by **ruckus** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:35 pm

I don't know if Masai addressed this but, I think they really struggled to come to a consensus with the 27. They went quite a bit over their allotted time.

TheGoodDoctor · Post #469 » by **TheGoodDoctor** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:45 pm

ruckus wrote:I don't know if Masai addressed this but, I think they really struggled to come to a consensus with the 27. They went quite a bit over their allotted time.

I would assume they weren't expecting Skal or Davis to still be there so they had to deliberate it.

IBM Watson stepped up as Assistant GM...

Made an executive decision and decided it was still Paskal or PassOnSkal; might have been a typo.

Naysorn · Post #470 » by **Naysorn** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:47 pm

TheGoodDoctor wrote:
ruckus wrote:I don't know if Masai addressed this but, I think they really struggled to come to a consensus with the 27. They went quite a bit over their allotted time.

I would assume they weren't expecting Skal or Davis to still be there so they had to deliberate it.

IBM Watson stepped up as Assistant GM...

Made an executive decision and decided it was still Paskal or PassOnSkal; might have been a typo.

What does IBM Watson do for the Raptors?

TheGoodDoctor · Post #471 » by **TheGoodDoctor** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:50 pm

Naysorn wrote:
TheGoodDoctor wrote:
ruckus wrote:I don't know if Masai addressed this but, I think they really struggled to come to a consensus with the 27. They went quite a bit over their allotted time.

I would assume they weren't expecting Skal or Davis to still be there so they had to deliberate it.

IBM Watson stepped up as Assistant GM...

Made an executive decision and decided it was still Paskal or PassOnSkal; might have been a typo.

What does IBM Watson do for the Raptors?

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1456029

IBM Watson is our super computer analytics system.

He is basically Masai's version of the Wilson ball from Cast Away.

MavCarter · Post #472 » by **MavCarter** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:01 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/JLew1050/status/746445838226964481[/tweet]

TheGoodDoctor · Post #473 » by **TheGoodDoctor** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:04 pm

McGregFan wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/JLew1050/status/746445838226964481[/tweet]

Better get Biz back or this feels so dirty like replacing your old dog that just got run over with a new dog for the kids but it has a spot on the wrong eye.

alienchild · Post #474 » by **alienchild** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:09 pm

Master Ze wrote:[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdm9c8UCUVk[/youtube]

Says other teams have asked him about the draft and stash concept. I'm guessing MU was one of them.

Big time wing-span, high motor, defensive mind-set and huge freaking hands. Can't wait to watch him in Summer League to better gauge where his development is at .

lolwut · Post #475 » by **lolwut** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:11 pm

TheGoodDoctor wrote:
McGregFan wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/JLew1050/status/746445838226964481[/tweet]

Better get Biz back or this feels so dirty like replacing your old dog that just got run over with a new dog with a spot on the wrong eye for the kids.

Wait a sec... You are NOT the father!

Uncle Jeff · Post #476 » by **Uncle Jeff** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:16 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/2tS2p_94/status/746423179514679296[/tweet]

mtcan · Post #477 » by **mtcan** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:18 pm

Uncle Jeff wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/2tS2p_94/status/746423179514679296[/tweet]

Looks like he wants Canadian citizenship too

Walid · Post #478 » by **Walid** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:51 pm

NBA teams and scouts know more than us armchair GMs. If you want to criticize the pick, at least wait and see how they perform over time in this league.

Post #479 » by **JYD** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 9:57 pm

alienchild wrote:
Master Ze wrote:[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdm9c8UCUVk[/youtube]

Says other teams have asked him about the draft and stash concept. I'm guessing MU was one of them.

Big time wing-span, high motor, defensive mind-set and huge freaking hands. Can't wait to watch him in Summer League to better gauge where his development is at .

His shoulders, arms and hands look just like Iguodala's.

SaveTheHens · Post #480 » by **SaveTheHens** » Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:08 pm

lolwut wrote:
SaveTheHens wrote:I still don't get it, especially after seeing the wiretap again saying we're interested in skal at 9. If we were interested at 9, why wouldn't we take him at 27? Smokescreen???

You don't honest think that's a literal wiretap on Masai's phone, do you?

Umm the realgm wiretap?? Of course its not literal but its interesting how off that report was that if we wanted Skal at 9 we wouldn't take him 18 places later.