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Originally Posted by Trojan97
I cannot believe you guys are blaming the state of the Raptors on Babcock. He came into a situation full of long term contracts and essentially zero cap for the foreseeable future and he has now left a team that has zero players signed past next season and a core of talented, fresh talent for which the next GM will be able to either trade for a bigtime shooter to play with Bosh or simply allow to grow into themselves for cheap.
As far as the draft goes. Hoffa was a bad pick, granted. Albert Miralles was taken in the second round and was then immediately flipped for Pape Sow and a future 2nd rounder. GREAT trade, Sow has been the MVP of the NBDL this year and has shown alot of promise in limited action. As far as last years draft, to come away with Villaneuva, Graham and Ukic (someone who many thought would go mid first round) was a tremendous job.
But you guys are right, one drafted player not meeting expectations is completely unacceptable. You would think Flames fans would be a little more fair when it comes to someones drafting record.
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Even if the 2005 draft picks work out they were still poor choices given what else was on the board at the time.
He bunged up the Carter trade.
He bunged up the draft.
Then he told the season ticket base their team would suck.
He should have ben fired ages ago. Right decision but as Moon says - why now?