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Originally Posted by kmart
The Raptors went from 6-12 to 48-34, which means they went 42-22 after the Rudy Gay trade. I don't think you can blow that out of proportion. He literally got us our entire bench in one trade. That's pretty damn good asset management.
In 3 seasons in Denver, he won 50 games + in 2 seasons and the other he still had a winning record in the shortened season. They should've been in the lotter when they traded away Melo, but they still stayed a winning team. When Masai left they were in the lottery.
His teams have had on court success regardless of playoff results. He has put out excellent teams.
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He got a mediocre bench that wasn't good enough to win a round in the pathetic East.
He added okay talent to Denver and one of the reasons they lost in the play-offs is having 0 elite level guys on the team to make big plays when needed.
In Toronto there again is a whole lot of mediocre guys on the roster.
He has made good moves but when you have GM's in the league with multiple rings, multiple trips to the finals, multiple Conference finals I find it hard to say that Masai is better than all of them because he added an okay bench that wasn't good enough to beat NJ with home court advantage.
Again, Masai is good (likely top 15), he is a huge improvement over Colangelo, he is young and looks to be improving/on the rise but he is nowhere near top 2 as was mentioned in this thread earlier.
He was given a very tough situation and for the most part I like what he has done. I hope he is not overly to this team concept he seemed to promote in Denver as that is a recipe for mediocrity. He is in tough in that he can't really tank for the top talent and has to bring back okay guys like Lowry but likely isn't going far with Lowry and DD as the top guys either. Hopefully he can find a gem in the next couple of drafts (and not Brazilian chumps that you think makes you look smarter than everyone else).