Toronto Raptors Dame trade ideas and rumors

Poor poor Damian Lillard. Won’t SOMEONE think about Dame???

 

People on here acting like adding OG and Ayton is a bad thing.

 

wut?

If any free agent prefers their teams kowtowing to bullshit pressure over building the best roster .... i don't want them. This is such a ridiculous notion. Stop listening to Chris Haynes.

After seeing these offers, Dame will be the first one to understand.

 

And if they're not, and we embrace the rebuild and struggle, we'll have a higher likelihood of getting a HOF talent because we'll be drafting at the top.

 

Not really. There could be several teams willing to give up 2+ 1sts and a young prospect. If we get Dick, Thad, Boucher going to PHX with Nurk for Ayton, and an unprotected 1st + a pick swap from Toronto and can trade OG for another young guy and 2-3 unprotected 1sts, that’s a pretty good package.

Ayton, Dick, another young piece, Thad, 3-4 1sts + 1 swap for Dame and Nurk is a decent package.

 

No, dude, that’s exactly what I’m saying…

Why were we kowtowing to f’ing role players???

 

how dare Cronin look out for his team's best interests?

 

I don’t think you can be convinced of anything. I’ll just end this convo here.

My bad for engaging.

 

The problem is, our window in the lottery is hopefully only a couple years. If Scoot and Shae don’t pop, we are going to be for a rough period of time. But assuming they do play as we hope and expect, this team should hopefully be crawling up and out of the bottom of the league.

This upcoming draft isn’t considered very good. The next one is better, but we can’t turn down valuable assets like OG just because we want to suck.

 

What in the hell are we doing to Dame????

 

The amount of hypotheticals you have to swallow to end up with a better outcome than Ayton and OG is overwhelming. You can always make tweaks as you go along. You're not expected to keep all these players forever. Get good and then make tweaks along the way.

You have a better shot with that than expecting to turn late 1st round picks into gold. And you get Grady? I'm for it. You're giving Scoot a team to play with from the get go.

 

Dame will be a billionaire soon enough. I wish someone would do that to me.

 

Ehh ... that's tough to embrace by choice...

 

LMAO. Let's trade everyone and create capspace! What a refreshing idea!

Rewatch your FA streams where you two looked like you wanted to slit each others' wrists after hearing we overpaid for yet another 6'3 guard 7 hrs after FA opens as our only move.

Surely you guys don't want to re-live that fiasco.

 

I understand people who want to embrace the rebuild, but we have our two young studs. We should be trying to put pieces around them. Is there anyone in this draft who is as good as OG or Ayton?

 

That's what I would like to see. A team with as much talent as possible for Scoot from the get-go.
If Scoot is playing at a very high level from the beginning, I don't understand the need to "develop" as in wait for other players to catch up to Scoot.
It could soon be time to work on chemistry and fine tuning the lineup.

 

And their insistence that being bad and collecting lottery picks is some how a full-proof plan when year after year their are teams who can't climb out of the lottery despite drafting lottery picks each year. Ayton at 24 is already 18 and 10 with his best basketball in front of him. Same with OG who could be even better in a new system but regardless, he's still a top wing defender in the league.

These folks will complain that we wasted Dame's best years and then say we shouldn't try to be good for several years under Scoot and Shae.

 

Can I interact with anyone here without people randomly bringing up my channel? Fucking hell. What does signing another guard when we needed forwards have to do with going a rebuild route after Dame's gone?

 

It's not a fool-proof plan. Ayton hasn't improved much in the last 3 years. OG can walk for nothing. Is that a fool-proof plan?

For years, the problem was that we we didn't have enough assets to put a contending team around Dame. We didn't have enough to go trade for the stars we needed. I don't want to go the same route with Scoot and Sharpe. They're 19 & 20. We have more time with them than we ever did with Dame. Focus on their development and accumulate assets.

 

If Scoot and Shae don't pop, the only way we're not screwed is if we have guys who do. Only way to realistically do that (outside of a miracle Giannis/Jokic type of pick) is to have high draft picks or a ton of assets to star chase.

Who says turn down OG? We could probably flip him for first round picks. If that's better than Miami's package, fine. You can always trade first round picks for high-caliber role players when Scoot & Sharpe are ready. I just don't understand why we need to have those types of guys now instead of focusing on developing the young core over winning and then adding those pieces when they're ready.