Raptors Future Starting 5 [In My Eyes Or What I Would Wish]

[South_Side_Jane]

Starters :

PG : Jerryd Bayless
SG : Demar DeRozan
SF : Harrison Barnes (Draft)
PF : Andrea Bargnani
C : Marc Gasol (Signed as Free Agent, Help From Calderon Of Course)



What is your starting 5, make it legit

[Matt52]

Starters :

PG : Jerryd Bayless
SG : Demar DeRozan
SF : Harrison Barnes (Draft)
PF : Andrea Bargnani
C : Marc Gasol (Signed as Free Agent, Help From Calderon Of Course)



What is your starting 5, make it legit

Nice thread idea. I'll give you the entire team with starters first:

PG: Irving (draft)
SG: DD
SF: Jeff Green (Sign and Trade)
PF: Bargnani
C: Marc Gasol (FA)

Bench:
PG: Calderon/Bayless (combo 1 and 2)
SG: Weems
SF: Kleiza/Mia draft pick?
PF: Davis/Dorsey
C: Johnson/Alabi

Irving looks like he might be the real deal at the point. The Raps have never had an elite PG - albeit that is putting a lot of pressure on the guy.

[Mack North]

It`s becoming pretty obvious that the Raptors are as bad as most of these so called experts think they are, therefore unless we get truly lucky in the lottery they will have no shot at landing Barnes.

[Matt52]

It`s becoming pretty obvious that the Raptors are as bad as most of these so called experts think they are, therefore unless we get truly lucky in the lottery they will have no shot at landing Barnes.

The game against Boston was awesome and so were MIami and ORlando last week. I'm rooting for the Raptors but they are going to have to show some more consistency. It seems they are playing to the level of their competition.

[hateslosing]

Start

pg: Irving (draft)
sg: Demar
sf: Weems
pf: Josh Smith (trade)
c: Andrea

Bench

pg: Jose Calderon
C: Greg Oden (signed)
pf: Amir Johnson
sf: Wright
sg: Barbosa

Soloman Alabi
Bayless

[Matt52]

Start

pg: Irving (draft)
sg: Demar
sf: Weems
pf: Josh Smith (trade)
c: Andrea

Bench

pg: Jose Calderon
C: Greg Oden (signed)
pf: Amir Johnson
sf: Wright
sg: Barbosa

Soloman Alabi
Bayless

Hopefully Oden recovers like Amar'e did but the odds are against him. If he makes it back to the league he would probably be best served in limited minutes - like 25 a night max. That could be a good fit for the Raptors.

[TheGloveinRapsUniform]

PG - Paul (via trade)
SG - Derozan
SF - Weems
PF - Bargnani
C - Howard (via trade)

Bench
alabi
davis
evans (re-sign for peanuts)
a. parker (sign for vet min)
t. chandler (sign for vet min)
h. barnes (via draft)
stuckey (via trade)

gonna dream anyways, why not dream big, right?

[RPT23]

PG - Paul (via trade)
SG - Derozan
SF - Weems
PF - Bargnani
C - Howard (via trade)

Bench
alabi
davis
evans (re-sign for peanuts)
a. parker (sign for vet min)
t. chandler (sign for vet min)
h. barnes (via draft)
stuckey (via trade)

gonna dream anyways, why not dream big, right?

lmao!!!

+1

[Red and White]

Interesting thread. The one thing I dont agree with you is not having weems start. You have to think that he has the same (if not more) potential then dero.

[Bendit]

The game against Boston was awesome and so were MIami and ORlando last week. I'm rooting for the Raptors but they are going to have to show some more consistency. It seems they are playing to the level of their competition.

LOL...at this rate of accomplishment we might not get a shot at Irving, Barnes or any real nuggets in the draft.

[Brandon]

All we need to pull this off is a time machine and some chloroform.

PG: Oscar Robertson (age 26)
SG: Michael Jordan (age 26)
SF: Magic Johnson (age 26)
PF: Hakeem Olajuwon (Age 30)
C: Wilt Chamberlain (age 26)

Bench:

Charles Barkley (age 25)
Grant Hill (age 25)
Stockton and Malone when they were young.
Shaq Fu (age 26 weight 300 lbs)
Kareem (age 26)
Larry Bird (before he blew out his back digging a hole in his mother's driveway)

This would be the first team with 25 pick and roll combinations in the starting lineup alone.

[Brain Colangelo]

All we need to pull this off is a time machine and some chloroform.

PG: Oscar Robertson (age 26)
SG: Michael Jordan (age 26)
SF: Magic Johnson (age 26)
PF: Hakeem Olajuwon (Age 30)
C: Wilt Chamberlain (age 26)

Bench:

Charles Barkley (age 25)
Grant Hill (age 25)
Stockton and Malone when they were young.
Shaq Fu (age 26 weight 300 lbs)
Kareem (age 26)
Larry Bird (before he blew out his back digging a hole in his mother's driveway)

This would be the first team with 25 pick and roll combinations in the starting lineup alone.

could that team beat the 2010 heat?

[JoePanini]

Starters :

PG : Jerryd Bayless
SG : Demar DeRozan
SF : Harrison Barnes (Draft)
PF : Andrea Bargnani
C : Marc Gasol (Signed as Free Agent, Help From Calderon Of Course)



What is your starting 5, make it legit

Nothing wrong with your line-up (although I prefer our current line-up to it) but Bargnani is not a PF.

[JoePanini]

Kyrie Irving
DeMar DeRozan
Sonny Weems (re-signs 5yr/$25M :P)
Amir Johnson
Andrea Bargnani

Ed Davis
Eric Bledsoe
Julian Wright
Farouq Aminu
Solomon Alabi

[gforce74]

PG: Kyrie Irving (thru draft)
SG: DeMar DeRozan
SF: Sonny Weems
PF: Andrea Bargnani
C: Yao Ming (2011 free agent signs 5yrs/$15mill.) or Colangelo trades Peja & TPE for Yao

Subs
Ed Davis
Jose Calderon
Linas Klieza
Jerryd Bayless
Tristan Thompson ( Mia Draft pick)

[Introcollapse]

I'm laughing my ass off at all of this "Kyrie Irving" "Harrison Barnes" stuff. Unless the Raptors get REALLY lucky in the lottery or somehow trade up, they've shown that they're a good enough team to warrant the 5th-15th pick.

[RaptorsFan4Life]

I'm laughing my ass off at all of this "Kyrie Irving" "Harrison Barnes" stuff. Unless the Raptors get REALLY lucky in the lottery or somehow trade up, they've shown that they're a good enough team to warrant the 5th-15th pick.

Time to purposely tank?

[Matt52]

I'm laughing my ass off at all of this "Kyrie Irving" "Harrison Barnes" stuff. Unless the Raptors get REALLY lucky in the lottery or somehow trade up, they've shown that they're a good enough team to warrant the 5th-15th pick.

With losses to the Knicks, Kings, Bobcats, Wizards, and barely beating Philly, I'd give it a few more games and see how they play against mediocre teams. They have shown they come out to play the top teams.

Also, with 2 first round draft picks and the TPE still in play come the draft, they might be able to move up in the draft by taking on a contract from another team - very similar to what T'Wolves did 2 drafts ago with Washington.