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Originally Posted by Moneyball16
Not sure how the Raps stayed the same or got better. Lost Patterson, Tucker, Joseph and Carroll and got back Miles.
fwiw a grade of a C+ does not mean that's the case (I'd say they'll be like 6% worse next season off the top of my head). it could just be that they did the best with what is available to them (a not great basically max contract in demar, the best player that's ever put on a raptors uniform and was previously criminally underpaid coming up as a FA)
they have a slew of quite interesting young guys, should any of them provide more value than anticipated they'll have a passable bench (delon, norm, poetl, bebe, siakam, even FVV).
dmc did nothing for them last year. it's basically patpat + tucker/dmc (counting dmc for first part of the year, tucker for post trade deadline) vs cj miles. that's an L but if just one of those 5 young guys is better than anticipated it could easily make up for it.
they'll also have an entire season of serge. hell, maybe bruno randomly plays a few minutes. idk, they're run like a competent franchise so they have a good 7-12 on the roster and a chance that some combination of them is decent.
(im not a huge fan of cojo. he's okay but i don't think he moves the needle and i think they'll be able to get his production out of a combination of FVV and delon)
oh and they also picked a guy i had ~10th on my board at 23. so yea. you get a C+ for keeping expensive guys to 3 year deals instead of 4 and running back a 50 win team when two of the best 5 players left the conference
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Alan Williams at 5 million plus 2 unguaranteed years is good for the Suns.
i'd rather have willie reed. point being alan williams is just a random backup C energy guy who isnt' particularly young and has absolutely no chance at protecting the rim or stretching. guys like this are a dime a dozen. idc how good he is at rebounding or fantasy basketball.
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Tim Frazier is Wiz backup.
yea he's okay. they paid too much for jodie meeks tho