The Raptors will contend by 2026

The Raptors will contend by 2026

Everyone’s talking about Delano V’s blowing up and people are talking about how great ogob is doing and people talking about how great Pascal seak is doing guess what all these guys started the season out with Darko rakovich you got these guys who are all growing but I’m seeing like very similar overlaps

Where they’re better finishers better decision makers how is it that all of them got better at all the same everyone got better Scotty got better Grady got better I think he really understands how to think and so he has this excellent way of communicating and building trust with players and Darko

Has clearly connected people on the fair value of joy for the game love of the game development getting better pursuing meaning and you know playing for each other and the team is taking on that identity because he is the strongest voice in the room right now when I was

Playing the 2K game what’s interesting is I download all the draft classes but then I have to make them realistic because most draft classes that you download are hyper unrealistic like everyone has potential 94 92 whatever I’m like this so I started drawing out the potential and I really

Like how NBA 2K 24 has done this where they give you Max potential minimum potential potential what is the likelihood that this player will actually succeed and I think this is actually very close to how the real potential actually works I think you have a development staff in in place

Where if there’s even a 4% or 3% chance with a prospect they’ll probably get it out of them and that’s what makes me so excited about this there are three young players at minimum who are going to enter the Raptor system this summer that’s four players that come into

Summer league that’s four players that Darko is going to work with that’s four players that are come into this completely new culture where like everyone is selfless and you got Kelly linck and yako purle teaching you how to be a pro and hopefully you have Garrett Temple back and you have Scotty Barnes

And Emanuel quickley and RJ Barrett telling you how to run the ropes you know this channel is called pensar basketball which means thinking about basketball and I feel like sometimes we don’t live up to the billing um let me try do you know that there’s this old saying that one minute spent planning

Saves you 10 minutes doing this element of infrastructure is so lost on people because people are so bad at planning people are so bad at setting things up properly mapping things out we are in the age of instant gratification which means if I can’t see it right now it

Doesn’t exist and when I see it I’ll I’ll believe it there’s a lot of group think there’s a lot of you know influence because of social media that our thoughts are being constantly contaminated by other people’s ideas about things the Raptors have officially within 9 months of hiring a new coaching

Staff completely reset the culture of this team the culture of this team determines not only the success of this team it determines the problem solving capabilities of this team it determines the late game composure of this team it determines how this team resp Bron to adversity trades rumors free agency it

Will influence young players coming to this team and what they absorb about what it means to be a professional basketball player all of these things are lost I feel on the Casual fan who just sees it as players being drafted players being busts players not being

Busts if I put a $5 million seed in in rotten soil it will turn into nothing we just assume guys fa in a vacuum we just assume you know kwami Brown just failed what was there in Washington what infrastructure was there for him was it a good environment for him to go into

You know Eddie Curry the baby bulls who taught him how to be a pro who was his vet I think sometimes a terrible thing can motivate tremendous growth if you learn from it properly but see the terrible thing is only a terrible thing until you make something of it that’s

Good and I think the Raptors have taken the lessons of the the previous 2 years and they bottled it up into something great we often think about things with the ending in mind when we tell it back you know we don’t talk about Jordan’s failures as much as we talk about the

Six championships but in the moment when he was losing to the Pistons all we talked about was the failures and there was no championship in sight and he was never going to win and a scoring champion can never be an NBA champion but now it’s so obvious that he was

Always going to win six and always going to become the goat and it wasn’t obvious and a lot of people were like you’ll never win a championship with this guy he’s too selfish all those failures just are part of something this failure what’s happening right now for the

Tronto Raptors it’s just it’s going to come around and by next year we’re going to look at this 17 game losing streak 15 game losing streak or whatever the hell it is going to be and we’re going to look at this and we’re going to say this is what builds character because it

Hasn’t Define this team you know losing is such a toxic thing for the team because you start to identify as a losing team team but I think this coaching staff and this management team has done such an excellent job of managing expectations and managing communication within this team that none

Of this losing is actually even like starting to bother these players

The Toronto Raptors lost their only 2 all stars, implemented a brand new coaching staff, pulled off 2 major trades and responded to two major injuries, 2 major scandals and 2 major losses without so much as losing an ounce of chemistry.

The bad vibes are gone. Somehow, the Toronto Raptors are managing to be a team that is losing while developing every good habit in the book. They’re not salty and bitter. Guys aren’t betting on themselves. The Toronto Raptors have lost 13 straight games (Barnes & Poeltl have missed all of them) and they remain as together and as connected as ever.

This is hard to do. It’s damn near a miracle. To those expecting the Raptors to be bad for years ala 2007-2012, don’t hold your breath. No one is interested in tanking multiple years and the Raptors punted just one season to reset their entire timeline to align with Scottie’s.

With big moves, big cap space, big development, the Raptors will be the surprise team of 2024-2025 and will push for a top 3 seed in 2026. Bookmark this video and come back to me after it happens.

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