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…
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.
The selection of Davis was an easy decision since it was almost remarkable that he was available this late. Why did his stock drop? Three reasons.
All-Star forward Chris Bosh says the buildup to the July 1 start of free agency is "scary, but it's exciting."
The team at Raptors Republic has done a great job at breaking down our possible selections on the RR - so much so that it seems other popular mock drafts are copying phdsteve's selection of Avery Bradley in the 13th slot. However, the stats guy has a different selection at #13...