“The early signals emanating from Toronto…suggest that the Raptors are not interested in a total rebuild and view their offseason plans as a retool.” (via @TheSteinLine)
"The early signals emanating from Toronto…suggest that the Raptors are not interested in a total rebuild and view their offseason plans as a retool." (via @TheSteinLine)
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I’m going to break my monitor I swear
Pain
Looking like ima rebuild on 2k since we can’t get what we want
They are going to go forward staying flexible, being able to both commit to a rebuild or to go all in. But will never actually to either.
This team is a mix of parts that don’t work together and don’t amount to anything even remotely resembling contention. Blow it high into the sky.
The ceiling is a first round exit for the next couple of years
Doesn’t really mean anything.
If teams knew there was a fire sale, Raptors wouldn’t get the best return on players.
This might be the breaking point for me
Anyone who thinks they we were ever going to do a full teardown into a full tank hasn’t been paying attention.
Doesn’t mean all three of Siakam, OG and FVV will be in the team next year. Doesn’t mean that only two of them will either.
The Raptors will put out a roster designed to win games, not win the lottery.
I’m not fully buying into anything that gets reported anymore. Maybe we retool, maybe we rebuild, maybe neither (please god, no). But if history is anything to go by, watching and reacting to every tweet that goes out about what direction we’re going in is futile.
I’m hoping we start a rebuild, but we probably won’t know anything until draft night for certain.
This better be posturing. What does a “retool” look like with a team that is basically capped out and have some major FAs that might not be coming back. Then, you have the free agency of Siakam and OG next offseason. This is the best time to rebuild to maximize return on players and make any rebuild less painful.
Retooling for a play-in run is so childish
Not surprising after we traded away our 2024 pick with such light protections.
Not sure why everyone is being so dramatic. We don’t need to tear everything down and it’s obvious we won’t be tanking.
Doesn’t mean we are keeping Fred or even Pascal. But we aren’t having a fire sale on all our players.
Doesn’t make sense imo, no picks to really trade, only players of value are OG and Siakam besides Scottie who they are not trading. One of OG and Siakam gotta get traded otherwise the team is basically running it back, you can’t call that a retool
Hopefully some of these questions will be answered through the coach announcement
Well Masai needs to be proactive if he is truly evaluating every direction. Potential trades aren’t gonna appear right at his front door
We tried to build around a sixth man and 2nd option for 4 seasons now and failed. The best coach in franchise history got fired because this roster is shit, we’re headed into the luxury tax, we have a first round exit ceiling and we’re low on picks. “Retooling” is just a cleaner way of saying that we’re going to stay directionless and mediocre.
But what does that even MEAN??? Rebuild in the eyes of fans just means moving on from Fred and Siakam, just two of our players, and a retool can constitute anything from shipping off one or two core players or just moving around bench pieces.
As long as we don’t go ret*rd, we should be fine.
That’s good to hear. The fans won’t tolerate a rebuild
I mean a retool should still involve trading one of OG or Pascal. Assuming Fred and Gary sign elsewhere how else would this team “retool”
why do we wanna stay mid so bad 😩
The day the Raptors have to fully rebuild is the day Masai Ujir is gone.