[octothorp]

One of the few things that does push me a little more towards the playoff-push side of the equation is that there's a real lack of playoff experience, especially if you believe that the bubble playoffs aren't super useful for building experience. If they miss this year, it'll become three full years of no real playoff experience for Siakam, Birch and FVV, four years for OG, and beyond that, just five total games for GTJ, and garbage minutes for Precious and Boucher. At some point they need to get playoff games under their belt even if they're a couple years away from contending.

The general consensus seems to be that is a weak draft especially at the top, but I think there are a handful of players in the middle to late first who fit the Raptors' style and what they're trying to do. Baldwin, Griffin, Houston, Eason, Moore... At the very least I would prefer a trade where the Raptors give up a first but pick up a 2nd.

But I've got a lot of confidence in the front office whichever way they go.