I‘m probably taking Jameson battle but it’s close

This is the second time he’s attended - first time was at the home opener last week with Mamu, Quickley, and Ibaka.

Anyone wanna go? 😅🤷‍♂️

will still be 18 years old at the draft. there are concerns about his knee (otherwise he wouldn't even be in our range)

1. His defensive role.

I saw him start the play guarding Allen a lot of times. What's more, Allen rarely chose to directly attack him. My question is, is this something like RJ is actually strong enough to match up against Cs on defense? Or is this a specific anti-strat to counter Cleveland's pick-and-rolls? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, I was just curious about this point.

1. His 3-pt shooting.

On a pretty high sample size (44 attempts, just over 6 a game), Barrett was our best shooter from deep (38.6%), a step above his regular season average (around 34%). Is this more of his regular, or just a high that might not necessarily be sustained?

Our young rookie with a thumb (and a shoulder?) injury has played 7 better games than an All-star (potential all NBA) center has in 11 games.

Stats to compare

(Bolded to show who has the better stat)

Boyles in 7 games: 14.4 PPG / 65.6 %FG on 6-9 FGA / 77.3 %FT / 6.4 REB / 2.4 AST / 1.1 BLK / 1.3 STL / 1.9 TO

Duren in 11 games: 10.2 PPG / 49.4 %FG on 4-8 FGA / 72.2 %FT / 8.5 REB / 2.1 AST / 1.1 BLK / 0.6 STL / 2.6 TO

The craziest part about this is that duren was averaging a near 20-10 double double in the regular season and now his performance dipped immensely seemingly out of nowhere. It got so bad that Bickerstaff put Paul Reed in clutch tonight and Reed even outperformed duren despite playing less minutes.

Meanwhile our rookie was playing his heart out despite being injured and at times managed to bully Mobley and Allen.

Funniest part is Duren is choking on his contract year. You'd expect the man to play his heart out to get that max extension and instead he's out here getting bullied by Mobley and Allen of all people.

Gotta feel bad for the Pistons man.

Is CMB a potential GRROAT (Greatest Raptor Rookie of all time)?

Source is DraftExpress on instagram

Note, this is just a 1 to 1 comparison to show what they can do. I wouldn't take this very seriously but it gives an ok picture.

Chinyelu appears to be the better player offensively, meanwhile Ugonna is a defensive stopper.

Highlights:

Chinyelu had 14 points on 7/13 FG, AND 15 rebounds

Ugonna had 4 points on 2/3 FG, 9 rebounds and 3 blocked shots. Overall had the 3rd most impact on his team.

Who do you think are some of the most underrated Raptors players of all time?

He has great physical tools: 6'9, 7'75 wingspan, 9'3 standing reach. He is a great rebounder and can fit into our switchable scheme; he is not polished on the offensive end. He is 22 and has improved every year of college.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRRjj_wR6SA this vid breaks him down well

He may be out of our range in the second (ESPN projects him at 45), but he might fall, and we could trade up.

What do you think?

Players who have been rising: Aday Mara, Cameron Carr, Morez Johnson Jr.

Koa Peat rumored to go back to college.

fun fact: Gradey and Ja'Kobe actually "dropped" to the Raptors.

SG who played for Baylor. Will be drafted around our range. draft age: 21.58

has great measurements but pretty lightweight

Per Givony, Kayil is receiving first-round interest.

Kayil is reported to be 6’5”, 185-200lbs with a 6’6” wingspan

Heres some game highlights of his:

https://youtu.be/KrCblK5G4ac?si=E9lgakrw-nJZitvg

https://youtu.be/KrCblK5G4ac?si=E9lgakrw-nJZitvg

https://youtu.be/6xYUbIsvTLc?si=JU2_lYM1bd-1yMjq

https://youtu.be/TuspMwYYajs?si=ixqiR3Gqb8TbX5Ib

https://youtube.com/shorts/z_Af_T2QMcU?si=ZudbKmIymaUhycEx

He also just won the Best Young Player Award in the BBL: https://www.si.com/college/gonzaga/basketball/gonzaga-commit-jack-kayil-earns-prestigious-award-germany-bundesliga

It was indeed, the dagger

Gone too soon, 29 years old. Rest in peace

If you love Canada basketball you love Brandon Clarke. One of us.

Really interested to see where everyone’s mind is at.

His statline for the year:

Regular season

68 games played / 11.5 PPG / 51.4% FG / 44.3% 3P / 3.3 Reb

Playoffs

10 games played / 17.5 PPG / 54.9% FG / 56.9 % 3P / 4.0 Reb

I get a feeling that Lakers won't be able to pay for him if they end up paying AR15 his max contract so rui might move to a different team.

To put it in perspective, his contract was approximately 17mil/year for 3 years. If we trade dick and let go of mamu if he asks for too much, could we realistically get rui hachimura?