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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

Donte is a lovely player but he's not going to be back anytime soon from the achilles injury and we're already playing footsie with the cap, in an organization that won't spend into the tax unless we're expecting to legitimately compete.

Great buy low candidate when he hits free agency next summer though. I've got all sorts of time for Dante.
 
If the new financial & draft pick trade rules didn't exist, I'd hate this. It would be overly punitive to teams in markets that struggle to attract and retain good players. But with how difficult it's becoming to collect and keep talent around your star players, this is fine.

The other thing this will do is stop the hollowing out of the middle class quite so much. Non playoff teams were previously incentivized to run a bunch of cheap kids out there and suck, now there will be more of a market for veteran rotation players that can help those teams win more games, establish better, more professional cultures in their locker rooms, etc.
 
MindzEye said:
If the new financial & draft pick trade rules didn't exist, I'd hate this. It would be overly punitive to teams in markets that struggle to attract and retain good players. But with how difficult it's becoming to collect and keep talent around your star players, this is fine.

The other thing this will do is stop the hollowing out of the middle class quite so much. Non playoff teams were previously incentivized to run a bunch of cheap kids out there and suck, now there will be more of a market for veteran rotation players that can help those teams win more games, establish better, more professional cultures in their locker rooms, etc.
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I dont get why they had to go to this extreme after all this tank talk for years

Give the bottom 10 teams a 7% chance to win the lottery and the remaining 6 a 5% chance

You can tank all you want your odds dont go up at all
 
GEEMAN said:
I dont get why they had to go to this extreme after all this tank talk for years

Give the bottom 10 teams a 7% chance to win the lottery and the remaining 6 a 5% chance

You can tank all you want your odds dont go up at all
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They want it to be punitive for competitive reasons. As in, it's tough to negotiate TV/Content deals when 1/3rd the teams in your league aren't even trying to be competitive and are incentivized to put a shitty product on the court.
 
MindzEye said:
Donte is a lovely player but he's not going to be back anytime soon from the achilles injury and we're already playing footsie with the cap, in an organization that won't spend into the tax unless we're expecting to legitimately compete.

Great buy low candidate when he hits free agency next summer though. I've got all sorts of time for Dante.
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Mebbe he goes and joins his 'Nova bros in NY for a year.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
Ive seen Harrison Barnes as an affordable suggestion as a Mamu replacement.
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I'd rather think harder than settle for that. We have some excess stuff to trade and I'd look to get someone stuck deep on a bench somewhere who needs a mythical "change of scenery" with an opportunity like Topic, Jarace Walker, Risacher, whoever is ass out in OKC, Minott, Nic Jovic, etc and are interested in similarly rehabbing Gradey Dick in return.

With that said, I'd still rather just sign Mamu at 4/40 and also do that other thing.
 
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