Dissonance

Excited to see him.

Porn Player

Very exciting rookie, and we've got the Olympics to enjoy to really get a feel for his game.


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Porn Player

Anybody catch his game yesterday at the Olympics? I missed it, but looks like the coach kept him out of the game for large parts again.

Box score shows he was 3/4 FG, 3 drb, 2 orb. It was probably his 3 personal fouls that kept him sat, but LTU got blown out, so you think he would have got some more burn.

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JonMatrix

I watched the first half. When he was in there, his teammates ignored him on offense. Lithuania's perimeter defense was awful yesterday...Manu got into the paint at will and Delfino was hitting every shot he took from the outside. Scola had a great game. Prigoni and Manu controlled the tempo.

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Porn Player

This LTU team is notorious in its 'senior' player bias.

Smh.

Thanks for the quick recap.

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Porn Player

Val really hasn't got much to any burn in this Olympic tournament. I was looking forward to seeing him.

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Porn Player

Just watched LTU v Russia in the QF game. The coach went with Val in crunch time and he gave a good showing. He set hard picks, he rolled to the basket very well, hit his FTs and hustled for offensive rebounds. On the defensive end his pick and roll defense was exposed a couple of times but he was active and went hard on the glass.

We should all be very excited.

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c_dog

i said it at the time of the draft and i'll say it again, but we should have gone with kemba walker...

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R-Star

Not going to wait for him to play even 1 NBA game?

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Porn Player

c-dog is a basically a Raptors centric troll.

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Diable

Wasn't all that impressed with this guy in London, but I'll give you Kemba for him no questions asked.

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Porn Player

Did you watch the QF game?

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c_dog

troll? i'm just the only raptor fan who has perspective. something most raptor fans lack. porn is also a ridiculously hard BC jockrider. Remember when you said hedo turkoglu was going to make the raps a playoff team and how Kleiza was a bargain and how he was going to be a huge part of the raptors future? Not to mention you thought bargnani was a franchise player(though you finally seemed to have stopped believing that the last year). The fact that you think jonas is going to be anything more than an average player does not make wasting a first rounder on him any better.

i would love for the raptors to make good basketball decisions so i don't have to criticize them on forums. you think if the raps drafted austin rivers this year or kemba walker last year that i would still act like a "troll"?

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-James-

I honestly mean no disrespect by this, but especially when it comes to rookies and the draft, it really doesn't matter what you think. What happens if Jonas or Ross pan out or Kemba or Rivers flop? Let's not pretend like you're some master scout or that franchise players are this easy to pick out. So let's cut this "good basketball decisions" nonsense, please. If you don't like a certain player on this team or if you'd have rather had another, than whatever, but let's not act like these franchise-saving moves were obvious ones.

edit: and please save this "perspective" stuff, if you walk up any Toronto street and ask around, most people really do not think much of this team.

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For the record, I hated the Bargnani, Davis and Jonas picks, as well as the Kleiza signing and most notably the Marion trade. I believe I even went as far as to say that I preferred Babs to Colangelo at one point.

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