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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Yes, the Sixers model works. The Raps need to destroy their roster at an absolutely unprecedented level in any sport ever to get there. It cannot happen next year, or probably even the year after that. They have to accept horrible trades to get into position to tank. You act as if it's really easy for them, they're just gonna choose not to do it. I basically guarantee you Masai would have preferred to gut the roster and keep Casey. But he can't, it's just not realistically possible. So they gotta hope they can be the Capitals or Mavericks, a roster seemingly past best before that had a run.
Also, the Spurs and Warriors have a combined one player they drafted in the top 10, and look at them, the model franchises in the sport. Are you gonna say they never properly built a team? Houston hasn't picked in the lottery in years. Tanking isn't the only way, it's the easiest way, but not for the Raps in the current situation. Honestly if to you the only way is to tank, the Raps are at least three years away from starting that process.
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Huh? Spurs drafted Tim Duncan, David Robinson and Curry was a top 10 pick. You don’t have to accept horrible trades, you can raise their value and then trade them mid season. You keep saying can’t but they can and I don’t see an Ovechkin on this roster. Raptors do not have any elite players but have been building their team like they have 2, its been all fools gold. Raptors also don’t have a popovich and drafting the way the warriors did takes luck and great scouting, neither which the raptors have. Derozan is not a player that will win games against very good teams in the playoffs. Can’t shoot the 3, can’t defend, and gets so frustrated that he forgets how to play his game. The raptors will never ever win when he is a fundemental part of the offense. If you are saying that I should be resigned to the fact that the raptors will see out this core and Derozan for the next 3 years and be happy with it, I won’t. Raptors are not the spurs or the warriors, Derozan couldn’t play for the spurs because he is the exact opposite of a prototypical popovich player. Again improving the team would be an option but Masai cap tied the team, time to gut it. The east is terrible, take what you can get for Derozan and Lowry and move on. What’s the point of continuing trying to put a square peg in a round hole? Masai’s only
Focus should be getting the best trades possible for Lowry and Derozan, that should be priority no.1, I will not be invested at all in the raptors until both are gone and the team becomes invested in a real rebuild. Not a half assed one that has only led to playoff embarrassment.