When it comes to the NBA’s 2023 deadline, no team has more power to reshape both the league – and their own future – than the Toronto Raptors.
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Personally I think everyone is tradeable except for Siakam, OG, barnes, and precious
Good job on the video!
Trade OG for draft picks and players, trade flynn. Fred will flourish away from Nick Nurse playing to many minutes
The Raptors are heading to the Lottery
Or Purdue U. 7'4 center in the draft
I agree they need to trade OG and Fred and Trent jr.. Because they are going nowhere this season or next.. They are heading to the Lottery with the current roster.. They are truly no worth me watching anymore to mush iso on offense
Holy crap. Precious Achiuwa is only 23?!?
Some casuals here not understanding where the value lies in this team. Trade Precious?!? Precious is one of the team's most valuable assets. He makes less than Khem Birch! Precious is owed only $2,840,160 this year, $4,379,526 next year and $6,275,861 the year after that. And he's only 24! He's untradeable. So is Scottie, who's locked in till 2026 for only $13m per!!! Crazy ROI on those two players. Siakam is an all-star and stat stuffer who WANTS to be in TOR. He's a keeper.
Unfortunately, OG is their most valuable trade asset at the moment and sometimes struggles to find his place on the floor, despite his world-class defense. If we can bag some picks and maybe a solid center, that would benefit the team long term. Fred and Trent are culture setters and losing one of them will hurt, but we may have to in order to balance the books.
Tough decisions ahead for Raps management.
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Og will get traded.
1 – He's peaked and can't accept that reality. He wants out because of it.
2 – His value will drop dramatically in the future as the league is going offensive.
3 – With the league going offensive, good individual defense is less important than ever.
4 – His career 37% average from 3 is barely better than average now.
5 – Raptors look bad when he plays. No cutting, slow ball movement … stands in the corner.
6 – He needs to lose some weight or he'll spend the rest of his career injured.
7 – He's a lazy rebounder.
8 – We need to trade him now while his reputation is a high as it will ever be.
Lol… the team is still extremely young why would you start trading off assets that you want to then reacquire hoping you're younger? Anyone team from an NBA championship per year. We have all the tools in Toronto to actually win. Yes to a few people that aren't getting along and appears. You figure out who you want you trade the others, if that's the case. Besides that they have all they need to grow a team that could eventually win several championships.
you trade Siakam while his value is high. If we're not contending without OG, keeping Siakam is pointless, wasting his prime. IMO we trade FVV and Siakam, gets 6 FR picked and decent role players. Try to draft well and contend in 4 years while OG is only 29-30. If contention plan is longer, trade OG as well (3 FRP) and build around GTJ, Scottie, Precious' prime. We're going nowhere now, we won't achieve anything in Siakam's timeline. Since 2019 we lost 4 guys worth of assets and recovered only 1 via Scottie. Did we get anything for Kawhi, Danny G, Ibaka and Gasol? no. And we traded Poeltl, DeRozen, Valunciunas for them (ALL DRAFTED BY RAPTORS, we only get value from draft, not trades, not FA), who are now/still key contributors to their respective teams now. People who don't see that are very bad at accounting. Losing one star to free agency (look at OKC with Durant) is the worst thing that can happen to a team, never mind FOUR guys. Raptors tried to make it work, but there is not enough talent on this team, staying mediocre in the NBA is a death sentence, especially when you're not a destination spot. Trust me, nobody coming up from the G-league, NN is not a development coach. Siakam, FVV, OG (and Norm Powell) were all from Dwayne Casey's era.
Anunobi to Lakers 💜
Liquidate please
Uh, no. It's called growing pains. We weren't given a high caliber/touted player until Scotty Barnes. All are other players required development, so let them develop.
Plus, last year, the team staved off being swept. And Otto is out on injury for the season and Flynn is still developing, so chill y'all.
The only reason OG wants out is FVV so move FVV; GTJ wants out regardless so trade him too. Raps shouldn’t trade OG at all costs he’s too good and still young!
lol so glad the score isn't the raptors front office
Completely agree with you here Cash, the goal of the draft is to bring in someone of Siakam’s level or higher so giving up on him before he is even in the middle or back end of his prime seems kind of dumb. Additionally, while there is so much focus on Gary as being the most likely to be traded, I’d be tempted to keep him around. Fred is going to be the more expensive of the two once they get their next contracts, Gary’s age fits REALLY well with Scottie and Precious when compared to Fred and if we are of the mind that Toronto isn’t going to sign major game changing talent in free agency, then getting below the cap shouldn’t be part of this trade season for them.
I love your take on this. I would like Van Vleet to stay but not for the 140M/4-year contract. With no contract extension made and Fred signing up with new manager suggest he wants the big money in free agency. I love OG but if he is unhappy, front office should be real with him. OG is a lot of upside with his age and team-friendly salary although 3 first round picks and a promising young player sounds very tempting. Raptors have most of their picks and so far they’ve been great with their picks. I would keep Trent as he plays well with Scottie. I would like to see the Raptors going the Grizzlies route and accumulate a group of young assets who they can afford to resign for continuity with Scottie as the Rising Star and young vets — Pascal and OG, and great role player – Achiuwa, ans 6th man – Gary Trent.
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