Or “Why tanking isn’t such a bad thing”

(If you haven’t read the first and second parts, please do, as this post will make a lot more sense if you do) So in parts 1 and 2, we looked at the 16 year history of the Raptors organization that seemed to be so focused on not losing that it couldn’t manage to actually [...]

…are condemned to repeat it.”

When last we left the Raptors, they had raised their floor, but lowered their ceiling by surrounding their franchise player, Vince Carter, with veterans. And after the inevitable fall that came, the Raptors were able to finish with a top 3 pick and draft Chris Bosh. THE ROB BABCOCK ERA Glen Grunwald didn’t even last [...]

“Those who cannot remember the past…

The famous (and famously mangled) quote by George Santayana continues to run around my head whenever I debate with a Raptor fans the merits of “tanking” vs “winning now”. If you’re a Raptor fan, you no doubt heard the rumours that were flying around at the beginning of the “offseason”. Most of them I mentioned in a previous [...]

Finally(?)

While the players still have to vote on and ratify the deal, it appears well finally have an NBA season. Hopefully. After all the posturing and hard line stances on both sides, the details that are emerging for the deal arent radically different from the previous deal. All those great ideas people had about “fixing” [...]

Jonas Valanciunas Is Like Two Cookies (and Amir)

A friend recently told me about a show she was watching where scientists conducted an experiment with young children. They put them in a room and on a table was a cookie. The kids were told that if they didn’t eat the cookie, then after half an hour, they would get two cookies. Despite knowing [...]

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