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Raptors fan checking in. This team runs a terrible brand of basketball with terrible """star""" players. This team isn't going to beat LeBron anytime soon, so the best plan is to tank for when he retires. Maybe then they won't be a laughingstock.
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The only option is to tank
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May 7, 2017 23:22
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Already Lowry hit jobs absolving Casey from blame I'm not following next year if Casey is still coach. Moving on from him is the least that could be done and it won't because Masai loves him.
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May 8, 2017 16:52
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It is if you have championship aspirations
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May 8, 2017 18:03
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DeimosRising posted:Except it rarely works and the odds are it won't for Philly either. It's probably four years of sucking rear end to max out as the team you have now. Nah, a team doesn't matter if it doesn't have a superstar.
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May 9, 2017 04:02
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DeimosRising posted:Yeah but there are maybe 10 guys in the league at any time on that level. If you tank fucken hard and get 5 top five picks in a row, the odds aren't you don't draft a single guy on that level. You probably get two busts, Ibaka, Lowry, and Derozen. Look at the Wizards, the Blazers, the Magic, the Wolves like 4 or 5 times, even the Thunder, who got closer than most. It usually doesn't work. You're just as likely to make the leap the way the Lakers did (insanely lucky mid rounder and a dickhead free agent who wants to play in your city) or the Cavs (blow your picks and luck into more, and a dickhead free agent wants to come home) or the way the Warriors did (late lottery gambles and second rounders that all worked by sheer luck, plus TWO dickhead free agents playing mercenary) or the Celtics (multiple teams had a fire sale when they had a pile ornate mediocre assets and a lonely superstar) or the Heat (dickhead free agents plus lonely superstars. Actually building from a full tank describes no title team in the last 20 years except maybe the Pistons and the 2006 Heat. I want to have the best player on the court for a drat playoff series. If you half rear end poo poo like the Raptors currently are, you constantly get articles/podcasts jerking off to players on the other team and you become laughingstocks of a different nature. I would much rather have a superstar with no help around him than fake rear end allstars that melt in the spotlight, because at least then there's some shred of hope. How you get that superstar doesn't matter. The Raptors currently do not have a path of getting one in FA, so that leaves the draft. The best way to get a superstar in the draft is to have good picks. A second round exit team is nothing more than the inevitable realization that it doesn't mean poo poo. It's another loving sweep for LeBron. I'd much rather have the hope, no matter how small, that tanking provides than be a loving warm up act for the teams that matter.
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May 9, 2017 06:36
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FVV, Bruno, and just pick someone else, we almost there
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May 9, 2017 07:04
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I decided to look up info on if he was fired or not, and it looks like I'll have to go back to not caring. Masai is a poo poo rear end fraud.
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May 23, 2017 23:23
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attackmole posted:Casey said in an interview today that he's gotten word from the FO's that he's coming back. We kinda her it before but this is another confirmation. FFS. Masai loving sucks and needs to go since that's the only way Casey will be gone.
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May 30, 2017 08:52
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Yeah boooo to the best executive the team's ever had, he only fixed huge problems and made the team extremely successful. There's still no respect for the team and it's traded being one type of laughingstock for another 
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Jun 1, 2017 02:27
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Lockback posted:The only people who consider Toronto a laughingstock are Toronto fans. They've had a really good season and there's no shame in being a tier below the top. Teams like Dallas and even the Spurs have hung out there until they caught/made some luck and became Championship teams. Tell me more about how the Lowry quote about not being able to catch LeBron has gone over
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