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![]() As far as I can tell, there are only two ways we can go from here.
Rebuild: This would include trading Bosh right now to get something of value for him (young players and draft picks) before he leaves in 2010 (which is looking inevitable right now). In this scenario, you could also hold onto JO for the next 2 years until he expires, leaving a huge amount of money avaialble for the 2010 offseason. The only players left on the team in this situation would be Bargnani, Calderon (though he could be traded, too), Ukic, and Jawai (and also JO for the next season and a half). The benefits of this would finally be seeing what Bargnani could do as a full-time option. This method also carries the higher ceiling of the two options. Yes, they'd probably have to lose a lot for the next two seasons (if not longer), but with a base of Bargnani, Calderon, the young players/draft picks they get out of Bosh, and a huge amount of cap space, there might be potential to be a championship contender at some point in the next 4-5 years. Retool: Keep Bosh for the next 2 years with the hope that he'll stay in Toronto past 2010. This would include trading JO right now for a SG/SF (Josh Howard/Shawn Marion) to improve the team in the short-term. The ceiling of this method is smaller, but atleast they'll have a chance to be a playoff team for the next 2 seasons, and may win a series as well. Next year's starting lineup would probably look something like this: PG-Calderon SG-Delfino SF-Howard PF-Bosh C-Bargnani. Maybe a 45-50 win team in the East? Bosh would then decide to leave (freeing us up to spend money on another franchise player) or stay past 2010 (something I consider to be unlikely). So which option would you prefer? I'm partial to option 1, because I feel that's the only real way to ever make the Raptors a true contender in the foreseeable future. |
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![]() It's pretty simple, he likes it here, he respects BC, he knows we are far from a finished product and we have assets to move, the fans love him here (except the fools that want too much), he likely wont get to be a franchise player anywhere else, and who are all these teams willing to offer him Max? Name a few? We can still offer more, and i dont think theres many teams out there that want him as the number 1 option. Im pretty confident that he will resign in the off season in fact, i dont want to say why because nobody will believe me and i hate argueing stuff like that, but im pretty sure he will stay
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![]() uhh we can bring back VC? Even though i never really watched ball during his Reign and destruction, after watching NBA journey: CB4, it seemed that VC was a good guy. I dunno. Maybe VC changed???
I always imagined that VC coming back and being a secondary player or something. W/e everyone thinks i am high or something. Anyway, i think its best to rebuild with AB and the other dudes. |
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![]() Glad to see more then 1 person doesnt think things thru... what do you really think you can get for Bosh anywhere near a 24/9 guy he is? Who knowing his contract situation is giving up real young talent or high draft picks for him? We will get fleeced if we move him, doublely so since we are tanking in the standings and ppl will percieve it as a desperation trade, then we will force AB to be the "man" yet all the AB lovers dont like to mention the fact he almost never creates off the dribble and would be much worse as late game guy then Bosh is.... almost no team goes to big men for game winners, there is a reason for that!!
Lets get fleeced for Bosh just in case he wont resign.... lets do it now!! Desperation style, the sign of a good GM!!! Lets not wait to see if he resigns in the offseason, then go from there, lets trade him NOW!!! |
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And who here is an "AB lover?" Certainly not me. I'm as skeptical as anybody about his future success. Quote:
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![]() I would rather lose Bosh in the biggest FA market ever will tons of $ to spend and get a player there then get ripped off for him with possibily some worse contracts. Im open minded so if perhaps a trade was mentioned and it was great i would go for it, im not saying it's not possible, but a generic "lets trade Bosh for whatever we can get" isnt flying well with me.
How about getting Bosh a real guard for the 1st time since he was a rookie?? Then seeing what he can do? Perhaps some of the critisms are misdirected? |
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So if they rebuild they'll have the cap space for that great free agency period (they could even re-sign Bosh), in addition whatever they get for Bosh. If they keep Bosh, and he leaves, they'll just have the cap space and nothing else. |
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![]() I think we could get more in the FA market in value then we could get trading him, it makes sense to me. Doesnt really matter because i think he will resign, we just need to get the right players around him and stop expecting things from him that no other teams expect from their bigs.
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![]() Actually, I think the path we're on is just fine. We're not that far off from being really really good actually.
I think we're gonna get a SF one way or the other from the JO contract. It'll either be Josh Howard (who I feel very comfortable with going forward), or we get the Marion contract and turn that into Marvin Williams or Lamar Odom this summer, hopefully. Then we have a lottery pick. So we're looking at a core of Jose and Ukic ? Howard or Odom or Williams Bosh Bargnani + top 10 pick What's wrong with that again? We'd have one of the most set frontcourts in the league and the Jose/Ukic thing has potential. Either Jose is as good as his early 2008 form and we rock, or Ukic is good enough to start in a Rondo like role and we can trade Jose for a great SG. If our lottery pick doesn't turn out to be that guy anyways. A month ago when Bargs was dead I probably would've agreed blowing up is a viable option. But with his emergence things completley turn around. The Bosh/Bargnani frontcourt has potential to really be something, there's no fucking way I'm giving that up for the lottery PS if Bargnani is good enough to be a #1 then Bosh won't be in his way. Bargs isn't quite ready for that pressure yet anyways though, not till at least next year. Still needs to work on stuff like screens, posting up, rebounding, yada yada Last edited by The MVP of West Hollywood; 01-17-2009 at 12:01 AM. |
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![]() You think Jose, ?, Odom, Bosh, and Bargnani is a "really good team?"
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. I mean it would be a decent enough team, but at best, that's still 4th in the East, behind the Celtics, Cavs, and Magic, and behind several other West teams. We wouldn't be championship contenders at all if we were to "retool" like that. |
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