(03-17-2020, 05:21 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: [ -> ]Overpaying is never good.. leaves you short elsewhere.
I'm okay with overpaying when the franchise is already short everywhere. Spend your way out of the problem Mikey!
(03-17-2020, 05:58 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: [ -> ]I'm okay with overpaying when the franchise is already short everywhere. Spend your way out of the problem Mikey!
I liked them overpaying for Reader!
Did someone just watch major league?
(03-17-2020, 05:21 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: [ -> ]Overpaying is never good.. leaves you short elsewhere.
Raptors won the championship last year and still have a real good team this year.
(03-18-2020, 11:09 AM)fredtoast Wrote: [ -> ]
Update?
I'm happy for the signings.
Hopefully they result in an end to the suffering of this fan base.
(03-18-2020, 11:08 AM)fredtoast Wrote: [ -> ]Raptors won the championship last year and still have a real good team this year.
Huh?
The only, "overpaying," we did, was trading away a decent bench guy (Delon Wright), a now-scrub (CJ Miles) and a good C (Valanciunas) for Gasol. That's it.
We:
- Absolutely fleeced the Spurs on the Leonard/Green trade
- Absolutely fleeced the Magic in getting Ibaka
- Had EVERY other piece on the roster, be a draft pick/homegrown talent, via the G-League, outside of Lowry (who was already here for 7 years)
We didn't overpay for anyone and the proof of that can be seen in how well we're doing this year, without, "Leonard the Saviour."
(03-17-2020, 02:47 PM)IcoHolic Wrote: [ -> ]It's probably like other sports, if you're not a perceived winning culture, you're going to have to significantly overpay to get people into your building.
Being in Toronto and a huge basketball fan too, I've seen what overpaying looks like, and it's not pretty.
You also got John Tavares at a cheaper price than others were offering.
Marner resigned at a good price.
Not bad for a team that has not won a Stanley cup since humans walked on the moon.
It's a crazy world we live in. Raptors talk has merged with Bengals talk.