Virtanen18
SAMCRO
I'm not convinced the Raptors blowing up their best team ever assembled is really worth it. THey've got a good team right now and a good youth core coming off the bench. Enjoy itI mean, if it was me running the Raps you might as well blow it the **** up completely. Sure, you might not get full value player wise for DeRozan/Lowry but try to move them along with Ibaka and Valenciunas, recoup as many 1st round picks as humanly possible and just flat out tank for the next 2-3 years until LeBron (hopefully) slows down, because you aren't beating him with DeRozan/Lowry. Ever.
It wouldn't be the popular thing to do, but the Raptors are stuck in purgatory right now. Arguably like the Leafs from 2000-2004, a really good regular season team that just couldn't get over the hump in the playoffs and then held on for far too long afterwards and became a poor team. I hope the Raps don't end up going down that road.
I get the Casey firing for sure. Something absolutely had to change. Everyone keeps talking about the losses to Cleveland as if they didn't get swept by the Wizards and just barely scrape by Miami, Washington, Indiana, Milwaukee in the past. It's just unclear how much you can blame the coach vs the players