
Originally Posted by
magikmc
I'm not trying to be a dick, but you're speaking as if you know what is going to happen. My first four points, as of right now, are facts. While, you are SUGGESTING that other moves are going to be made. What moves are we going to make is my question? How can depth at the big position be EASILY addressed. Amir is our only sure thing at that position right now. And he is hugely foul prone. I'm not sure how you can make the statement that Val and Ed were not going to work together with so much confidence. We have seen nothing of Val yet. We have seen continuous improvement in Ed. They are two young promising players. There is no reason to say "it couldn't work" on such a small sample size with two players that have loads of potential. I'm not so sure about the offensive rebounding. For his career he has averaged 2.3/game which would be good for 12th in the league. That's while playing 24 mins per game. Regardless I'm not going to get in an argument about the potential here. Based on the basketball, we have a terrible 3-point shooting team and a team that won't be very good in the paint. We don't get better defensively by removing davis and adding Gay either.
So what if this doesn't work with Gay? Then he's an expiring after two years, not a short period of time and Val and Ross MAY be coming into their own. We are going to be right back where we are now, or possibly worse. Then it will be back to; do we rebuild, continue with mediocrity, etc. etc. Even if Gay turns out to be great, I don't see how the supporting cast is good enough. Then that leaves us with no way to acquire high drafts picks because we are in the middle of the pack. This move does nothing to envelope a plan towards the future nor make us competitive now.
This is the entire problem. We need to develop a team where players DO want to come here. You know why we don't develop that? Because we don't have a winning culture. The notion that players don't want to play here because of it being in Canada or whatever else is ridiculous. Don't you think everyone wants to play in OKC now? Of course, because they have a winning team. Athletes like to win.
Why are you so sure that Gay is about to explode? That's what Memphis was feeling season after season, and it never happened. He's in his prime right at this moment and having the worst season of his career. He's not going to learn how to play defense all of a sudden. He won't get better at 3's. Where is he going to improve?
Lowry has shown nothing to make me confident in his future as a POINT GUARD. We are something like 2-20 with him starting, and he hasn't shown an ability to be a playmaker. I don't even think we have a passer on the roster now. Anderson might be the best and he's not guaranteed to be around. Additionally, Lowry has not shown he's able to stay healthy. We just put all our eggs in one basket that isn't padded.
People are posting as if there are some major moves to come. There may be some MINOR moves to be had, but we simply don't have enough to get an upgrade IMO with our current cap situation. If these moves don't happen, I genuinely think we could be worse than we are now. Which, would be a saving grace in my opinion. BC will be gone and we can be done with these make-shift trades.
Now, after my rant of negativity, I will still be a Raptor fan and hope I'm COMPLETELY off. I REALLY hope I'm wrong. I want this Raptor team to succeed SO bad.