Amir Johnson: Is It Time To Part Ways? | Hoops Habit
We’ve had some great years with Amir Johnson. He’s been through it all with Toronto and given us all he’s got. It will be difficult to see him go. And yet there it is, the writing on the wall.
Terrence Ross: When Potential Clouds Reality | Raptors HQ
There’s no getting around the fact that Ross is one of the most athletically-gifted 2’s or 3’s in the league. He’s not a brute of a man with muscles on top of muscles, but he can jump out of any building and run the floor with the best of them. That’s what makes the downward spiral he’s on all the more maddening, though. He doesn’t get it. And I don’t mean the “it” that Paul Pierce was referring to prior to the massacre that was the Washington Wizards series. I mean the “it” that clicks in your head, opens your eyes and makes you see things for what they are and what they need to be. Ross is complacent. Setting up camp on the perimeter and being a three-point marksman—if you can even call him that—is his bread and butter. Unfortunately, that’s all he’s really bringing to the table. He’s a one-trick pony.
Poll: What should the Raptors do with Terrence Ross? | Raptors HQ
The Raptors have been here before with young players. This is a team that invested years in Andrea Bargnani and Joey Graham. That hoped for the best from Yogi Stewart. While Ross has shown more talent than the latter two (and more energy than Il Mago), they all share a similar removed sense of passion; there’s a distinct lack of fun in their games. With Ross–former dunk champion, owner of a 51 point game–the game can look so easy for him. At other times, it looks like he’d rather be somewhere, anywhere, else. Like his teammate Jonas Valanciunas, Ross is entering the final year of his rookie contract. The Raptors are coming to a decision point: extend him, offer the qualifying offer, or let Ross go into free agency.
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