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I'm going to dive into this even further and see of all of the playoff teams this year, how many of them have lotto picks they drafted starting for them.

Miami: 1 lotto pick starter (Dwayne Wade,...

Couldn't disagree more. Other than a slight case for San Antonio, none of the teams still in the playoffs tanked to put their team together.
Just look at Memphis for an example of a contender that...

Bottom line for me is if Fields is our starting SG come the beginning of the season we are fucked. You wanna replace DD in the starting lineup, it has to be with somebody significantly better than...

What Ujiri did with Denver was pretty damn amazing in my opinion. If Gallinari was healthy it could easily be Denver in the Western Conference finals. You blow it up guys are getting ridiculous. How...

Sounds like a placeholder until BC gets a new GM gig somewhere else. Thankfully it's non basketball related so no more worrying about BC messing things up. We can blame the new GM for all future...

I see from your comment above you were in favor of keeping BC. Are you upset now that he's been officially removed from the GM role? Now that he's out of the way, who do you want them to hire to...

Exactly. Ujiri is the kind of guy that could turn Bargs into a few role players and a late draft pick.

Do you have an answer for that question, or are you just patrolling the forums to see if anyone asked questions that don't fit hypotheticals?

Compare him to whoever you want from whenever you want. He's done a good job as a GM in the 3 years he's been a GM. He's only been a GM the past 3 years, that's why I said "the past 3 years." He's...

Are you serious? It has to be the past 3 years because Ujiri has only been a GM for the past 3 years. Prior to that he worked for the Raptors. Do you even know who we're talking about?

It's also a business, which I think you're forgetting. If Toronto and Denver offer him the same deal and he picks Toronto then that would be disloyal, but if Toronto offers him a better deal I don't...

That description is from before he was drafted in 2010 and it's pretty accurate of his college play. He's been playing the pros all over the globe since then and it seems like it's paying off. He's a...

I think you could make just a good of an argument that Toronto is the team that "made success possible by believing in you and giving you an opportunity". Toronto is the one who gave him his first...

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I watched Lawal play a lot at Georgia Tech and he definitely has NBA talent at the PF...

Ujiri put that entire roster together. How can you not give him the credit? He turned Melo into Gallianri, Chandler, Felton, Koufos, Mozgov, and a 2014 1st round pick. He then turned Felton into...

Dion Waiters is all rookie first team this year. I wouldn't call his season anything better than decent. Fields rookie year was good for a rookie but nothing extraordinary for a typical NBA player....

What makes you think he can build any team into a winner? Are you advocating keeping Colangelo just so other teams can't hire him?

Colangelo has run his course in Toronto, and it was a rather...

BC can have his career resurgence somewhere else. They didn't bring in Leiweke to have him sit on his hands. It's time to get a fresh face at GM, BC's time has run in Toronto.

Fields has played like dog shit the past 2 years, not just 1. He had one decent, not good, not great, but decent season his first year. If you're being realistic then it's far more likely Fields...

We're not going to amnesty Bargs. Why in the hell would we? It's been said a million times, and you being a mod there is no way you don't already know, but we don't get any cap space from amnestying...

Have you followed Denver at all? Do some research, he is not Colangelo, not even close.

I just really don't think Fields has NBA starter talent. His stats are terrible on basketball reference and watching him all season backs that up in my mind. If you really think he would be a better...

If our new GM can come in and do something creative that sends out DD and brings in a comparable SG who complements Gay better, I'm all for it. I'd just rather have a poorly paired DD and Gay than...

Seems like our main sticking point is over Fields, and what he will contribute. You think he's going to get back to his rookie year form, or close to it. I think he'll only be marginally better than...

Nice counters, this is the kind of discussion I'm looking for. I'll address your points one by one.

1.) I'd put a lot more faith in DD getting his 3pt shots above 30% than Fields being able to do...