I was begging for the raptors to select Aldridge in 06. The guy put on a ton of muscle between his 1st and last season of College.And he was defiantly a much more aggressive player in his last year at Texas. He was going to the basket more often, was a good shot blocker, could run the floor, crashed the boards hard and he always had the jump hook down low, and did have a few other low post moves he developed over his stay @ tex.
Sure LaMarcus played a similar game to Bosh but Bosh was an all-star was the franchise player and LaMarcus was the top big man prospect in the country in 06. It should have been an easy decision if Toronto was going to select a big man to go with LaMarcus with the 1st pick.
Bosh even lobbied for the Raps to select LaMarcus Aldridge, and similar players can co-exist and adapt to changing up their styles. There is nothing wrong imo with having two mobile big men that can run the floor and drain the jump shot or drive the lane. Both were/are good re bounders. I personally believe that if Toronto selected Aldridge, that Chris Bosh would still be a Toronto Raptor. And I personally don't see a problem with a front court of Bosh @ C and Aldridge @PF.
Bosh didn't want to play center. He whined and *****ed and moaned about playing center and forced the team to stick Bargnani there (where his poor defence is even more exposed than it is at PF) instead of him. He only decided that he was ok with playing C while he was with the Heat last season.
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Bosh didn't want to play center. He whined and *****ed and moaned about playing center and forced the team to stick Bargnani there (where his poor defence is even more exposed than it is at PF) instead of him. He only decided that he was ok with playing C while he was with the Heat last season.
Well unless he was thinking that LaMarcus was going to play C, I remember him saying how he thought they would make a dynamic front court. And considering Bosh was already playing C at the time, kinda put 1 and 1 together.
Sure but they havent been around very long. All these teams were very brutal far before this deal got signed and under MLSE.
Rogers and Bell bought the Ont Teacher Pension Plan share of MLSE.. The corporate entity "MLSE" still exists, it's just owned by someone else now.
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saw on OTR that there's some groundswell somewhere to ban the hack-a-shaq/hack-a-howard strategy because it's exploitative to poor free throw shooters like Dwight.
Next up: Every non-italian in the league must rebound with their hands no higher than their shoulders because regular form is exploitative to poor rebounders like Bargnani.
i agree with the rest that we need to start bargs off the bench but if we want to never see him again in a raps uniform we need to keep starting him and build some value. with where he is at right now no team is going to willingly take bargs for 2 more years at 10M per unless it was a salary dump trade.
could be worse, we could of signed michael beasley to play the 3 spot before the season.
saw on OTR that there's some groundswell somewhere to ban the hack-a-shaq/hack-a-howard strategy because it's exploitative to poor free throw shooters like Dwight.
