Like, when the best of these guards is a debate between a washed up dragon, an alleged spousal abuser who’s done a lot of nothing in Sacramento since and Jeff Dowtin Jr., you know the guard situation has been the biggest problem with the team besides the lack of a center
Himmy_Carter
Rough.
WorldTwisting
They need to trade Pascal to get the guard depth back + picks
kyle_993
I know we obviously needed more depth but when you have 3 guys who deserve to have the ball (Fred, Siakam and Scottie) and 2 guys who want the ball (OG and Trent) your backup guards are going to get no minutes and no touches. So that’s why we never really had any good backup guards because if you were a backup guard why would you want to come here and get little minutes and little touches?
Accomplished-Pace213
I wonder if any of these players would flourish if they were allowed to play through their mistakes.
Ylissian
So many of my problems with how Masai and Bobby have managed the roster these past few years distilled into one picture.
Was there a particular reason why we let go of Terence Davis that I don’t know about? I could’ve swore he was decent for us in his first year and showed good promise but then we traded him to the kings for a bag of chips.
DontCheeseMeBro
Happens when you focus on acquiring a bunch of 6’9 guys instead of proper team building
MDS_1996
Surely the Raptors lack of quality guard depth over the last 3 seasons isn’t on the FO right?
somedumbguy55
Seems we forget Fred was that back up when we were balling out
pikachuda6
Jeff Dowtin was decent, I blame this on Nick Nurse not developing him properly.
efficientshelter69
Terence Davis was good
klobucharzard
Scase15
Man, Nick Nurse is terrible at developing these HOF level players. Thank fuck we fired him, these guys finally have a chance to break out.
Oh what’s that? Most of them are out of the league? Well shit.
chequemark
nick nurse died for their sins
Hurls07
These are the guys Nurse was supposed to develop while also pushing for the play-in lol
Responsible-Release7
When you put it that way I guess we’re not drafting a guard
SpicyP43905
Shouldn’t Norm and Gary be on this list? They e played backup SG for us at times.
ShadowKnight333
lets change that this season
prophiles
Pat McCaw was a good-luck charm
SteveDougson
Also, we didn’t have a centre during that time
midnightmunchiez
For a sec I thought this was a list of 905 players. And then I realized it was.
BOOTYBOOTBOOTERBOOTS
Deandre Bembry was a guard, no? Or was he more SF?
Fit-Introduction8575
A lot of these were star scorers in college/inferior leagues, the raptors picked them up as part of this strange “second-draft” trend but none of them were reliable enough to play our defensive schemes…
corh13
FO: “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas”
FaceMaskYT
I’m so happy Goran Tragic doesn’t get to experience this Heat run, what an absolute ass
Rey123x
It’s true, our franchise didn’t have an explosive all star guard the closest was TJ Ford decades ago
theuncleboz
I legitimately have no recollection of Shamorie Ponds and I watch about 95% of Raptors games. Am I the only one?
jovijovi99
Fans will read this list and still want Vanvleet and GTJ to walk.
-KFBR392
Outside of Davis the best player on that list is probably Armoni Brooks and that’s really sad.
CarousersCorner
Dragic is such a bitch. Every time I see his name I chuckle
djexplosive
I forgot Will Barton is on the team 💀
ShroudedMeep
Terence Davis was OK until he decided to ruin his own image.
Matt Thomas was genuinely a good shooter with limited use his first year in Toronto. Now he is in Greece though, so…
Dowtin showed a little bit of promise this year at least.
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“Depth” doing some legwork if we’re being honest
Like, when the best of these guards is a debate between a washed up dragon, an alleged spousal abuser who’s done a lot of nothing in Sacramento since and Jeff Dowtin Jr., you know the guard situation has been the biggest problem with the team besides the lack of a center
Rough.
They need to trade Pascal to get the guard depth back + picks
I know we obviously needed more depth but when you have 3 guys who deserve to have the ball (Fred, Siakam and Scottie) and 2 guys who want the ball (OG and Trent) your backup guards are going to get no minutes and no touches. So that’s why we never really had any good backup guards because if you were a backup guard why would you want to come here and get little minutes and little touches?
I wonder if any of these players would flourish if they were allowed to play through their mistakes.
So many of my problems with how Masai and Bobby have managed the roster these past few years distilled into one picture.
Terence Davis was sick tho
https://i.redd.it/t6qso1do5b3b1.gif
Was there a particular reason why we let go of Terence Davis that I don’t know about? I could’ve swore he was decent for us in his first year and showed good promise but then we traded him to the kings for a bag of chips.
Happens when you focus on acquiring a bunch of 6’9 guys instead of proper team building
Surely the Raptors lack of quality guard depth over the last 3 seasons isn’t on the FO right?
Seems we forget Fred was that back up when we were balling out
Jeff Dowtin was decent, I blame this on Nick Nurse not developing him properly.
Terence Davis was good
Man, Nick Nurse is terrible at developing these HOF level players. Thank fuck we fired him, these guys finally have a chance to break out.
Oh what’s that? Most of them are out of the league? Well shit.
nick nurse died for their sins
These are the guys Nurse was supposed to develop while also pushing for the play-in lol
When you put it that way I guess we’re not drafting a guard
Shouldn’t Norm and Gary be on this list? They e played backup SG for us at times.
lets change that this season
Pat McCaw was a good-luck charm
Also, we didn’t have a centre during that time
For a sec I thought this was a list of 905 players. And then I realized it was.
Deandre Bembry was a guard, no? Or was he more SF?
A lot of these were star scorers in college/inferior leagues, the raptors picked them up as part of this strange “second-draft” trend but none of them were reliable enough to play our defensive schemes…
FO: “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas”
I’m so happy Goran Tragic doesn’t get to experience this Heat run, what an absolute ass
It’s true, our franchise didn’t have an explosive all star guard the closest was TJ Ford decades ago
I legitimately have no recollection of Shamorie Ponds and I watch about 95% of Raptors games. Am I the only one?
Fans will read this list and still want Vanvleet and GTJ to walk.
Outside of Davis the best player on that list is probably Armoni Brooks and that’s really sad.
Dragic is such a bitch. Every time I see his name I chuckle
I forgot Will Barton is on the team 💀
Terence Davis was OK until he decided to ruin his own image.
Matt Thomas was genuinely a good shooter with limited use his first year in Toronto. Now he is in Greece though, so…
Dowtin showed a little bit of promise this year at least.
I’m trying to find positives :p