Technically World vs USA as well

Reaves missed a bunch of games and they prob don’t want to give the lakers 3 all stars unless they were a top 2 seed.

Reaves has played ²⁷⁄₅₂ games that’s just not enough. BI and Fox are both having good seasons but I would lean BI. Also BI has played ⁵²⁄₅₄ games and Fox is at ⁴⁷⁄₅₂

Fox is averaging 19/4/6 on 48/35/79 or 58% TS

BI is averaging 22/6/4 on 47/36/83 or 57% TS.

The city of LA already has 3 all stars, let the country of Canada have 2, man.

Reaves missed 25 games(almost 50% of the season) and hasnt been an all star level in his last 10 games or so ( ever since he started dealing with the injury for the first time). He just doesnt deserve to be an all-star.

MPJ?

BI is more essential to his teams’ success. Fox is playing awesome but the Spurs would be very good with or without him. BI coming to Toronto gave them the juice they needed to get back on track building around Barnes. Without him they are not vying for a top seed in the east.

Jamaal Magloire was an all star due to this… Barf.

Why would Kawhi even replace a World guy

You thought correctly

Kawhi didn’t replace Giannis, that comment is wrong. He was added because there was an open roster spot, this format allows for more than 24 players if the initial selection isn’t 8 international players and 16 USA players. Basically it’s like this:

-they select 24 players, 12 from each conference

-the players are distributed into 3 teams, 1 World team and 2 USA teams

-Each team MUST have at least 8 players so if there are 9 international players (or more) then team World will have 9 but they add another USA player to get to 16 USA players. Likewise if there were 17 USA players they would add another international player to get to 8.

After the initial 24 selections we had 9 international players and 15 USA players. Kawhi was selected as the 16th USA player, at this point there were 25 all stars with Team World having an extra player. After that Giannis got injured but there was no replacement because the World team still had 8 players so there was no need for another one.

Then Sengun replaced SGA in team World and now Ingram replaces Steph in one of the USA teams.

Knecht looked good for a bit there and i think he’ll have an okay career as a mid role player who can shoot somewhere else, clearly a confidence player

Too early to say Knecht was a miss. His confidence and desire to play for the Lakers went to shit after the rescinded trade.

No one bats 1.000*, people have to understand that even sticking to good process will lead to plenty of misses.

Oh yeah, Clarkson too he got picked for cash as a 2nd rounder, Reeves, Caruso undrafted too but those were more obvious one that everyone knows

When I saw the names the guy you replied to had, I checked the responses cause he missed out the best player they drafted and traded. How did you both forget Jaden McDaniels 😳. Lakers would be winning a ring this year if they still had him to provide defense and dunks alongside luka

a first round exit. maybe sneak into the second round once or twice.

thats what they would’ve been

Lonzo was amazing for the Bulls. Literally so good that he covered for the weaknesses of pairing Demar Vuc and Zach together. He and Caruso made it so that you could hide Zach/Demar on defense and have decent help defense despite Vuc’s inability to be a rim protector and Zo pushing the pace in fast breaks played to Zach’s strengths. Both offered good spot up shooting which allowed for Zach, Vuc, and Demar to live their iso dreams and find outlets if they couldn’t get a good look.

Once Caruso and Lonzo started missing a lot of time it all fell apart and they lost confidence. Even in a weak east that meant that they could only scrape into the play-in. P Bev had that brief stint where he worked pretty well as a c+ version of Lonzo, but that wasn’t sustainable.

And rarely any customers in them whenever I go and the size of the place is a small grocery store. How are they making money??

Thanks. Many Americans are also nice

You still can’t have our bridge

Yup. Injuries didn’t help the terrible atmosphere either. That franchise is cursed

In the famous words of OG Anunoby: “That’s our girlfriend now, idc”

We don’t get free agents. Our best free agent signings are Mamu, DeMarre Carroll and Otto Porter Jr (fuck Hedo.)

So knowing that, we just have to pay premiums when we can to get potential stars. It’s just how it goes for Toronto even though it’s obviously a world class city and a top 5 NBA city to be rich in.

He played 61, 62, and 64 regular season games for us in recent memory, the 18 game season is the current outlier. 65 is a completely new found threshold anyways

There was a direction. You just didnt like it. It was to attempt completely positionless basketball by loading up the roster with 6’7 guys. Unfortunately, most of them were unskilled and we got killed on the boards by opposing centers.

This. One fucking hundred percent.

Masai did not give Jakob that extension he was already gone. This keeps getting repeated

I liked him and I’m glad to see him do well in Toronto. The problem is that team was so snakebit with injuries and Zion. Trading him away sucked, but we didn’t have much choice because of the $$$ he wanted.

Raptors record is pretty good but from a purely statistical case Ingram’s number are pretty unimpressive

22 ppg on 56.8 TS%, 3.7 assists to 2.5 turnovers