[Lewenberg] The Trail Blazers (27-28) had a better record than the Raptors (26-30) at the trade deadline. They finished the season 6-21 and with the 5th-best lottery odds. They’ve got the 3rd-overall pick.
The Trail Blazers (27-28) had a better record than the Raptors (26-30) at the trade deadline. They finished the season 6-21 and with the 5th-best lottery odds. They've got the 3rd-overall pick.
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) May 17, 2023
by EarthWarping
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If the front office doesn’t have a good offseason, they need to go. Too much overvaluing their own players.
Play-in experience is priceless. How do you tell a champion to tank?
at this point I’m just hoping Scottie evolves this summer. having that at least will make next season bearable
smh worst timeline to be a raptor fan… no mans land
Yep. People talking about trading Pascal and/or OG for that third pick, well we could have had a similar pick PLUS kept our 2024 pick PLUS whatever assets we got from selling our vets at the deadline if we had tanked.
It was a very brain dead move.I still cant believe they did that
And now we’re talking about trading for a pick we could’ve just tanked for.
If the FO does nothing this offseason, media needs to absolutely torch them
There are 13 losers of the draft lottery every year. We had bigger aspirations, like the play in game
Never liked the Poeltl deal when it happened, don’t like it now.
It happened nevertheless and hopefully Masai can see that this core was not good enough this season, regardless of being with/without Poeltl
Decisions made this season have fucked the franchise for the next decade.
The Trailblazers are a MUCH shittier team it played out how it’s supposed to
The Lakers were also worse than the Raptors at the deadline and they’re playing in the WCF. I don’t understand the point of this, the FO believed in the players+coach and they believed wrong.
They were smart and we were fucking dumb.
Building a championship team is a process. Tanking doesn’t always work. How many of the recent champions tanked? To think that’s the only way to reach the goal is stupid. Sum of y’all think you’d be better gms🤦🏽♂️.
>I don’t understand the point of this,
What don’t you understand? You answered your own question.
>the FO believed in the players+coach and they believed wrong.
People are calling them out over such an obvious decision.
>The Lakers were also worse than the Raptors and they’re playing in the WCF.
The Lakers have LBJ and AD. Two players that got them a chip. Not sure how we are even remotely comparable to them.
y’all are seriously underestimating how truly awful the blazers were. The wheels fell way off even before they shut down dame. I don’t think there’s any chance we could’ve been as bad they were even if we tried
Obviously this means if we did that, just like them we both would have won and moved up. Or would only we have moved up? We could only move up, right? Isn’t that how lotteries work? (Such f-ing lazy, low hanging fruit to write about.)
Draft Bufkin and I’ll forget about this last season Masai.
something-something winning culture
Preach.
I’m fucking sick to my stomach bros. We have 3 FAs this season! We could of have a top 10 pick! What in the fuck
Thank God we got Jak and Scottie got so much playoff experience 🙄
Fuck sakes. But that playoff experience…. Can’t forget that. Lol smh
Well it doesn’t matter because we’re going to get that 3rd overall pick in a blockbuster trade lol
Only way we could’ve out tanked them is convince Fred, Gary, OG, and Siakam to sit for half the season.
That sure would’ve done wonders for team morale
WTF is up with this narrative that tanking is good?
Do people have any idea how much fucking money and respect the Raps got in that ONE extra game?
Masai and Bobby probably still believe in the core and will try to run it back with a different coach lol.
can we do a sign and trade FVV for the 3rd plus filler?
It’s going to start with the coach. Get Marc Jackson/Budenholtzer, Reddick, or Lionel Hollins, that’s what I hope for.
Now do the Pistons
unless the raptors benched fred/Siakam/OG (or traded) and fired Nurse that was never going to happen.
TaNk FoR wHaT?
The Portland tank was an impressive endeavour. They ran out some garbage lineups, I don’t think the Raptors could have tanked that badly, unless the shut down both Fred and Pascal and OG down with like 15 games left.
Go enjoy the offseason you fools.