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He just recieved a 'get out of Jail' free card. If you would have spent the last 4 years of your playing career in in the coach's personal crapper, you'd be exstatic to get a new lease on life too. Pop isn't living rent free in Danny's mug anymore.
It's sad, but true
He just recieved a 'get out of Jail' free card. If you would have spent the last 4 years of your playing career in in the coach's personal crapper, you'd be exstatic to get a new lease on life too. Pop isn't living rent free in Danny's mug anymore.
raptors have stacked on alot of lengthy perimeter players, yet why didnt they try to pry one of them, instead got poetl?
That's exactly what you need to dethrone the Warriors.
Good for Danny. Like I said, he needed that hunger again. Hopefully it lasts.
That said, impact stats that don’t include KD and Lebron are suspect at best, tbh. Probably small sample size...
Where's Tony Parker.? I thought statistically speaking he was the Worst player in the NBA? Oh look, Manu is no longer here to carry pity around by his jockstrap. I was wrong about 38 year old Manu. Any player that make Pity look like a competent NBA player deserves team MVP.
to be fair, aside from the small sample size, its a plus/minus thing. It surely favors teams that are winning. I figure Lebron with his loss record is not right now leading in plus/minus.
It's still a positive the Danny has been a huge boost for the Raptors as his impact stats show. If anything him being a throw in, when the trade was already going to be awful for the Spurs is like throwing salt in a wound for me... and that's with me recognizing that Danny was going to have a wondering eye in FA, as it looked like.
Anyways, with the Spurs in a 2-2 record, Paddy being one of the worst players in the league in terms of negative impact is damning for the FO. Dude plays a lot of minutes and closes games too... but sure det one basket against the Lakerzzzzzz
It doesn't take a genius to realize trading away your second best wing defender in DG, along with your best wing defender in KL, without getting one in return would be an awful idea. Not to mention letting your third best wing defender in KA walk, without signing anyone to replace him. Even doubling down on Patty for 50m and 4 years to really seal the deal.
The only way this makes sense is if they were planning to tank the next 4 years.
Either that or Pop is sabotaging the team before he leaves. I just can't think of a good reason why some things, outside of Kawhi btw, have taken place the past couple years. It just makes no sense. Mills over Simmons. Gasol over Dedmond. The even more strange thing is that people are actually debating if Gasol is better than Dedmond at this point in their careers.
Yeah, Danny is playing well. I still expect to see him start slumping within the next month or so. Hopefully for him and the Raptors, he pulls himself out by January like he used to.
Gasol is there cause of his name. Pop didn't want Dedmon on the team because of his at ude. Mills got paid that much because he is the leader in the locker room. Pop is trying to find the Tim Duncan/Big 3 replacement character wise. Cause the way Pop gets on players, it was usually Duncan and later Manu/Parker who after Pop's rant came to the player and told him "Don't worry about it". Once Duncan was gone players either lose confidence or get mad when they are getting yelled at by Pop. So Mills is solely there for the culture. Pop will never trade him. This franchise needs a change of culture. The Duncan culutre clearly doesn't work since Duncan is gone. He was the pillar of that culture. They should've adjusted the culture to Kawhi, but refused to
this was what made the spurs a contender, that was the perimeter defense...
lol patfo think lma and dd> kawhi team...
If this Raptors team can stay healthy I don't think Boston is a lock for the Finals. I think this Raptors team can make it to the Finals if they keep this level of play up.
As for the trade Spurs managed to get a pretty good trade out of a bad situation.
In Kawhi they had a player not saying a word and teams thought he was sitting out games on purpose. Also question of how healthy Kawhi was and no team was going to give up the farm on him with all those questions and his unprofessional display of handling wanting out of Spurs.
So yes Spurs did not win that trade but they got a player in DeMar that fits within the Spurs system and could keep this team in the playoffs. So it is what it is, if teams could see Kawhi/Green playing like this Boston would have given up Tatum no doubt.
Kawhi had Spurs in such a bad spot no way they could have won the trade. They probably should have gotten a little more from Raptors now but it's done. Good luck to Kawhi/Green in Toronto.
This. End of story. Whatever rift happened between Uncle and PATFO, it was too late.
Danny Green just automatic these days.
god damn 4-5 on threes today
Coming into tonight, Danny Green is shooting 46℅ from three (24/52) and TS% of 62%, both the highest of his career and he was literally a throw-in in the Kawhi trade.
They even threw in 5mil on top to make salaries matchComing into tonight, Danny Green is shooting 46℅ from three (24/52) and TS% of 62%, both the highest of his career and he was literally a throw-in in the Kawhi trade.
5-8 from three and two blocks... Ho hum, just another day at the office for Green. Pop no longer living rent free in Danny's head.They even threw in 5mil on top to make salaries match
They even threw in 5mil on top to make salaries match
But hey we got poodle power😂
Why do people assume that he would have played the same way with the Spurs?
Clearly he just didn't fit well with this team post-Aldridge for whatever reason..he looks identical to the 2014-2015 version of himself with the Raptors..
He didn't fit with the post-MVParker Spurs. He would have gotten a lot more looks with Derozen facilitating and slashing as opposed to Kawhi ISOs.
Add to the fact that he's healthy and on a contract year, safe to assume he wouldn't be too far off.
Who knows. Watching the Raptors you would realize that KawhISO is finding Danny for wide open 3's every game.
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