>Toronto can match any offer, so unless another team gets truly crazy, Quickley will be back. And even if another team does get crazy, Toronto probably just pays up.
>It might help the Raptors that one of the ideal Quickley suitors, Orlando, is helmed by Masai Ujiri’s close friends, Jeff Weltman, though the NBA is a business above all.
>Quickley probably gets about $27 million to start, with normal raises on the deal every year (so, maybe $115 million over four years). The cap is going to rise significantly in the coming years, so whatever Quickley gets should be solid value for the Raptors while also giving him the payday he wasn’t going to get from New York.
On a potential Jakob Poeltl trade:
>Yes, there’s a chance the Raptors move on from Poeltl. No, it’s not a high one it happens this summer. Most likely a move would come during next season, if Toronto stumbles early on and/or runs into injury troubles again.
>Why? It’s simple. Poeltl is Toronto’s best defender and the team plays a lot better when he is on the floor.
>If they embrace one more down year as the best way to get a needed second star alongside Barnes, trading Poeltl ups the odds substantially that they’ll be bad enough to be in range to draft one.
>Would doubt a lottery pick would be coming back, even though that’s what Poeltl cost a couple of years ago. Teams like Oklahoma City, Chicago, the L.A. Lakers and Clippers, New Orleans, Memphis and Houston seem like logical Poeltl fits to varying degrees.
>He’d probably get you a later first-round pick and a second, plus salary filler.
Raptorsthrowaway1
Yak is crucial to this teams defense and critical to the development of these young guys. Going back to center by committee is a dreadful idea.
That being said, he is not untouchable. He could move the needle a lot for a number of play off teams and if an interesting offer was made I think the FO at least explores it. OKC could put together an interesting package together without losing core pieces, he would help them a lot
No_Brilliant5888
Poeltl is a Chad innings eater. We should keep him.
CazOnReddit
With Jakob it’s very straightforward: Don’t turn the possibility of trading him but unless you get a stupid “can’t turn down” overpay **AND** you tamper to acquire Nic Claxton or Isaiah Hartenstein, you start the season with Poeltl. If the season gets off to a bad start, then you move him to tank but unless the Grizzlies or Pelicans decide to make an offer too dumb to say no to like “Ziaire Williams, 9th and a future first”, Poeltl is on the roster to start. His defensive impact and importance on helping Scottie/Quickley develop re: the pick and roll cannot be understated given how few options the team would have without Jakob in the rotation.
This is why I am not too surprised about them working out Kel’el if that is the plan because it also means you’ll have someone who can hang at the 5 while simultaneously forcing Ware to figure it out a la trial by flame as the team’s starting center.
Nokeol
Draft Edey, trade Poeltl. Then insert Edey into the starting lineup and let him be ultra conditioned to NBA standards, then let us lose a shitty amount of games and we draft Flagg/Bailey. Line up would be IQ/RJ/Scottie/Flagg/Edey. Championship guaranteed by 2028. Easy.
CanadaBBallFan
We desperatly need Zach Edey to give the low post offense a new dimension. That up and under in the 1 quarter of the national championship on Clingan was a better post move than Yak has ever done in his life.
MassiveTelevision387
what do to with our top 10 center on a team friendly deal that we’re absolutely a bottom team without? IDK, keep him?
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Some tidbits from the mailbag:
On Quickley’s contract:
>Toronto can match any offer, so unless another team gets truly crazy, Quickley will be back. And even if another team does get crazy, Toronto probably just pays up.
>It might help the Raptors that one of the ideal Quickley suitors, Orlando, is helmed by Masai Ujiri’s close friends, Jeff Weltman, though the NBA is a business above all.
>Quickley probably gets about $27 million to start, with normal raises on the deal every year (so, maybe $115 million over four years). The cap is going to rise significantly in the coming years, so whatever Quickley gets should be solid value for the Raptors while also giving him the payday he wasn’t going to get from New York.
On a potential Jakob Poeltl trade:
>Yes, there’s a chance the Raptors move on from Poeltl. No, it’s not a high one it happens this summer. Most likely a move would come during next season, if Toronto stumbles early on and/or runs into injury troubles again.
>Why? It’s simple. Poeltl is Toronto’s best defender and the team plays a lot better when he is on the floor.
>If they embrace one more down year as the best way to get a needed second star alongside Barnes, trading Poeltl ups the odds substantially that they’ll be bad enough to be in range to draft one.
>Would doubt a lottery pick would be coming back, even though that’s what Poeltl cost a couple of years ago. Teams like Oklahoma City, Chicago, the L.A. Lakers and Clippers, New Orleans, Memphis and Houston seem like logical Poeltl fits to varying degrees.
>He’d probably get you a later first-round pick and a second, plus salary filler.
Yak is crucial to this teams defense and critical to the development of these young guys. Going back to center by committee is a dreadful idea.
That being said, he is not untouchable. He could move the needle a lot for a number of play off teams and if an interesting offer was made I think the FO at least explores it. OKC could put together an interesting package together without losing core pieces, he would help them a lot
Poeltl is a Chad innings eater. We should keep him.
With Jakob it’s very straightforward: Don’t turn the possibility of trading him but unless you get a stupid “can’t turn down” overpay **AND** you tamper to acquire Nic Claxton or Isaiah Hartenstein, you start the season with Poeltl. If the season gets off to a bad start, then you move him to tank but unless the Grizzlies or Pelicans decide to make an offer too dumb to say no to like “Ziaire Williams, 9th and a future first”, Poeltl is on the roster to start. His defensive impact and importance on helping Scottie/Quickley develop re: the pick and roll cannot be understated given how few options the team would have without Jakob in the rotation.
This is why I am not too surprised about them working out Kel’el if that is the plan because it also means you’ll have someone who can hang at the 5 while simultaneously forcing Ware to figure it out a la trial by flame as the team’s starting center.
Draft Edey, trade Poeltl. Then insert Edey into the starting lineup and let him be ultra conditioned to NBA standards, then let us lose a shitty amount of games and we draft Flagg/Bailey. Line up would be IQ/RJ/Scottie/Flagg/Edey. Championship guaranteed by 2028. Easy.
We desperatly need Zach Edey to give the low post offense a new dimension. That up and under in the 1 quarter of the national championship on Clingan was a better post move than Yak has ever done in his life.
what do to with our top 10 center on a team friendly deal that we’re absolutely a bottom team without? IDK, keep him?