Well, whether you like it or not we as Raptors fans are going to have to used to life without Chris Bosh. What will your expectations be for the Bosh-less Toronto Raptors?
LZ Granderson of ESPN states that Chris Bosh is only a maximum salary player if he is paired up with LeBron James or Dwayne Wade, and that he is not good enough to be a centerpiece of a team looking to contend. Granderson claims that Bosh, Stoudemire and Johnson are firmly settled in the NBA’s …Continue Reading
Legendary North Carolina Broadcaster Woody Durham brings more than three decades of experience as the voice of Tar Heel Basketball to our discussion about who Ed Davis really is. In the second half of the podcast we go back to our discussion with Coach David Thorpe about Solomon Alabi.
“After all these years… Just 24 hrs left….. Wow. I’m getting anxious,”: Chris Bosh
Another angry mob is chasing another star out of Toronto…sad…
“It’s the perfect storm for Chris Bosh to leave and unfortunately we’re possibly going to be on the short end of that, but we will evolve,” Colangelo said. “We will have to evolve and move forward.”
There is a fair bit of commentary about Davis’ poor second season. So, how does Davis compare to the rest of the draft class and other two bigs we mentioned? His numbers stack up quite well against the two: Mr. Davis gets to the line more often, rebounds well and has the best block-to-PF ratio (1.54) of the three. We’ll take it.
Davis was easily the best player on the board and it would have been a huge mistake to have passed on him. If you follow the theory of drafting by tiers, Davis was in a different tier from everybody else available at 13.
Whatever the Raptors have up their sleeve, and at this point anything must be viewed as possible, they have to address a need to acquire a facilitator, a Turkoglu-like player minus the selfishness and baggage.
Magic GM Otis Smith said after Thursday’s NBA draft that he had discussions with the Toronto Raptors about a trade that would return former Magic forward Hedo Turkoglu to Orlando.
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