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Originally Posted by moon
I think there was someone (perhaps more than one) willing to defend Coangelo on here in the past so I will ask this how does this guy still have a job as a GM?
The Raptors have 0 players that would start for a contender, few that would even make the 10 man rotation and 0 guys with potential other than being a 4/5th best player on the team.
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I defended him and I'll still defend him. Firstly, getting spoiled NBA players to play for the city through a FA signing is difficult. That's a given and if anything, that's where Colangelo has failed. He's left with signing and trading for many Euro's in hopes they'll stay out of loyalty. Where Colangelo succeeds is in trades - off the top without much thought, I don't believe he's lost badly in any trade. He's also made many moves to get that guy to complement Bosh, but things just simply didn't work out. Good decisions with bad results. This off-season was a disaster though, not his fault though, with trades falling though. It's just the nature of the league though, and quite simply, this year I'm sure it's more of a decision to sit back, get a high draft pick, wait until the new CBA is signed (with a cap), sit back and make some good signings when the teams over the new Cap will be in panic mode making deals to rid themselves of salary. Colangelo never stays still with a mediocre roster, so it's quite telling that he hasn't done anything yet during the season - it's a wait and see approach. Firing him doesn't help either as I don't think there's a better guy out there.