I just don't understand what Colangelo thinks. He takes over the team in 2005. At the time, he really only had 4 blue chip commodities - Chris Bosh, Jose Calderon, the first overall pick and lots of cap space. Somehow he managed to take that and create a random collection of players. The 3 best raptors are all PFs.
Even if you excuse drafting Bargnani when you already had Bosh, someone needs to explain to me how he used ALL of that cap space to pick up a collection of backcourt players who might not even make the rotations of a playoff team (with the possible exception of Kapono, who would be useful as a spot up shooter on any team). The Raptors under Colangelo is an amazing example of a GM who has enough goodwill that mistake after mistake will be justified by the fans and media. Anthony Parker for 5 million per year? Jason Kapono for 5.5? Andrea Bargnani first overall?
All in all, Colangelo doesn't seem to have any idea for the Raptors, and chooses to use them for some kind of NBA experimentation. First there was the Euroleague marshmellow team. Don't know who thought that would succeed. Now, it looks like he's going for the all PF team. Hopefully the Raptors can get the first overall pick so that Colangelo has a chance to draft Blake Griffen. At the same time, make sure you don't actually hire a coach. It only adds to the experiment to see how many games these players can win by just winning it. Not many apparently is the answer.
Time to retire the mad scientist. Colangelo played his little game up in the north country. Now its time for someone with some actual ideas to take over.
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