Glen Grunwald <div style="padding-left: 20px;">Over the past few years Glen Grunwald has made some questionable moves. Some say he has been too risky and others say he hasn?t been risky enough. He is very inconsistent, but he has made some good moves as well. The worst move he has made over the last couple years was letting Tracy McGrady leave with out getting anything in return. There were good offers such as Larry Hughes and I?m sure there were other good offers too. He might have been able to pull a sign in trade with the Magic and the Raptors could have had Ben Wallace and Chucky Atkins, who play at positions where we need depth at. Another bad move was signing Hakeem Olajuwon who was injured and aging. Plus, he gave up first and second round picks for him and over payed him. This move cost the Raptors the loss of Keon Clark the only good center on the team. Then Hakeem retired and the Raptors were stuck paying around 80% of his contract for most of next season and taking up more than six million dollars of cap space that could make the Raptors pay luxury tax. The best move Glen Grunwald made was trading Antawn Jamison for Vince Carter along with cash considerations on draft day, and then resigning of Vince Carter to a long term deal. The latest moves have been drafting Chris Bosh and Remon Van de Hare along with trading a future second round pick for Matt Bonner, signing Milt Palacio and Jerome Moiso, and signing Mengke Bateer. I think drafting Bosh and signing Moiso were the only good moves. Signing Palacio and Bateer weren?t bad moves but he could have done better. Getting Matt Bonner, who won?t make the team, wasn?t a good move at the moment either. Drafting Van de Hare when there were much better players available was a really bad move. My conclusion is that Glen Grunwald will have to pull a few deals off by the end of the year, hope for not very many injuries and make the playoffs for an extension of his contract. </div> Written by Raptors21
I agree with you on a few of them, mainly the T-Mac, that was so stupid doing that, GG knew he wasn't going to re-sign, why not get something for him! Getting The Beast would have been the best possible thing for this club, at least HE'D be worth the money we pay Davis. Just another blown oportunity in T-dot. The trade with A.J was okay in my books, VC's been on and off lately with injuries but you can't blame a guy for injuries. Hakiem the Dream i thought was a good move, not with the money they paid him, but signing him i thought was good at the time because he fit the roster. NOW i see that it was a pain in the ass, b/c the guy is hurt and wont claim retirement, if he would sign the papers we could drop the contract, but that wont happen. Bosh I think was the best available choice for us to make in the draft. We need a big man that can move the court which Bosh can. I hope he picks it up a little on the defensive end as he's not as rough as he's gonna need to be playing with the big boys in the paint. Hopefully he'll turn into at least a 10ppg player which would sit good in my books for his rookie season, as i'm sure he'll average around 5/6 boards depending on his minutes.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Raptors21:</div><div class="quote_post">But we got AD for Bender.</div> yeah but drafting him in the first place was terrible, we could of had Shawn Marion.
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