Caution: Huge Rant
It's almost pains me to have to sit through this season. I am unfortunately like most of Raptor-nation. Or as normal people say, I am a Raptor fan. So i am going to painstakingly sit through games where the team I have a personal allegiance to get's systematically taken apart and humiliated in front of the world. Well the first question comes up and that is, who or what is at fault? Well the real answer to that is that it's probably everyone's fault at least partially. Why isn't Andrea Bargnani turning out to be worthy of a #1 selection? Why was that draft class so weak? Why didn't Bryan trade Bosh when he had the chance? Why didn't i win the lottery last week? It's a combination of different things going wrong. A perfect shit storm if you would. If you want to point your finger at someone then you can point it at Bryan. But I guess if you did that you might as well point up at the heavens or that rabbits foot you have on your key chain.
So the big trade the might have saved this season didn't go through. MJ's fault there. MJ is an idiot. He's proven that over and over again and If I had to name one person I can't stand the most in professional basketball it's MJ. Well maybe it's not all him. It's more like 80% MJ who is a cheating, gambling, bumbling idiot and 20% his moronic followers that thinks he's a basketball god. He's a jerk and he proved it himself during his hall of fame acceptance speech.
But I digress. Now that I have blown off that steam from the nixed trade I guess I'll focus on this team. This team has 3 glimmers of hope and they are Bargnani, Weems and DeRozan. This hope lies on the potential you have here with these 3. You hope that Bargnani's finally learned enough from his previous half decade in the league to string together the skill set necessary to make him look like a legitimate NBA center and give us 20 pts and 8 rebs. Then you got the young guns who look like they have the athletic tools to become the next superstars on this team a'la McGrady and Carter, (hopefully minus the selfishness and douchebaggery). But they haven't done anything outside of this past summer league.
The rest is all garbage. All garbage parts other teams didn't want any part of. I love Jarrett Jack but he's not a starting PG on a contending team. Not consistent enough. But he's capable of bringing his level up. We've seen it before. He's also capable of disappearing but that's what sets him apart from the rest of the team cause he could still bring his level up. You cannot tell me that any other player on this team would be a coveted player by the likes of championship contending teams cause if they were, they wouldn't be here. There's a reason why no Raptor ended up on the USA dream team. There's a reason why none of them have even been at the selection camp. Bosh is the only one and he's left town. That provides enough proof to me that the Raptors' talent pool is gutter level. Nobody even wanted to look at any of them to potentially join the world championship team. So when you look up and down our roster it has 3 players on it and they're not even proven. So i will not waste my money to watch them get dismantled over and over by teams like OKC who a few years ago, the Raptors used to trounce but now have turned the tables around so much that I wouldn't bother to venture to the ACC.
It's a sad state and any fan that thinks otherwise... I hope you're right. I really do. This team needs a miracle. Either that or it needs to end up with a legit megastar in next years draft. Or maybe MJ will have another brainfart and trade us something good for nothing. If i were Bryan I would call that guy every day just to see what kind of dumb shit he has going on in his head. I mean he drafted Kwame Brown and Adam Morrison He nixed a trade to get Jose Calderon and instead made a trade with Dallas for a couple of garbage part players. Somebody just give him a bag of quarters and sit him in front of a slot machine cause that's all he's interested in is gambling. He's not even good at it since I keep hearing he's owing money here and there.
I bet if i were to stop him on the street and sell him a bag of magic beans he'd offer to buy my company out of them. The only thing the Raptors have to offer this season is the hope that we might see a few players score some decent numbers whilst losing in the process. That's what I'm going to tune in for. Watching individual player's put up stats.
