The Goat Pen

It's not all about how good DeRozan is, it also has to do with supply and demand. There are bound to be teams under the cap that lose out on big name FA's but still feel obligated to use the cap room. With quite a few of DeRozan's class that's worth anything already signed to extensions, who out the...

BTW hope Ross and Fields play better cause I don't like 2 PG lineup long term.

Disagree that they didn't have to do it. Looking at a lot of players in his class all signing extensions, I would say there might be teams with cap room that might go hard after what's left. The way RFA has gone lately with all these backloaded poison-pill contracts designed to prevent matching or w...

I didn't see the whole game but officiating was disgusting for the second half especially. I kept thinking Raptors are supposed to be the home team and Indiana is getting all the calls.

But Raptors still lost that game. They didn't execute and that last play was pathetic.

A lot of encouraging stuff in today's game but the 4th quarter leaves a real bad taste in my mouth. I think we started losing it around 9min mark in 4th when Casey refused to call timeout when John Lucas and Calderon were starting to lose their minds. At least I think it was them, a lot of sloppy pl...

DeRozan about to sign for 4 years $40 M. Too high in comaprison to what Curry and Lawson got and his own value. I think it's still better than having him play it out in his contract year then have some team go after him with some crazy deal where we are either forced to match or let him walk for not...

Let me guess, you are gonna go on a tirade about your all-great coaching pedigree now, aren't you? Routine getting a little tiresome, don't you think? Look, chemistry, work ethic, cheerleading, or whatever you wanna call it is all well and good. But the draft is the wrong place to look for those qua...

Dude, don't exaggerate the impact of a 2nd rounder. He's not gonna cheerlead this team to victory. And don't try to put words in my mouth. I did not speak against going for someone with desire and work ethic. Simply that draft pick is the wrong place to look for those qualities cause you can find th...

How's Quincy Acy gonna be a consumate bench player if he'll be stuck in D-league for most of the year? And probably out of the league in a year or two? I mean a 22-year OLD rookie coming off his college senior year who is RAW and UNDERSIZED for his position, a position where Raptors got about 3-4 pe...

Valanciunas has been better than expected so early. I think Davis could eventually start beside Valanciunas should Raptors finally part ways with Bargnani but his ceiling is definitely a role player at the moment unless he make some huge leaps. Not impossible since as TDot pointed out, he didn't hav...

I'm fine with Valanciunas not playing too much and them not having time to develop him in Olympics. But starting him for the sake of starting him then taking him out at the first chance, I'm not fine with. That would hurt anyone's confidence let alone a 20-year old's and that's the last thing we nee...

How's Valanciunas in Olympics? I didn't see any games but some of the stat lines I see are not that impressive. Nothing wrong with that since I didn't expect much with him being one of the young guys. What concerns me is that he's starting but doesn't actually play a whole lot during the game. I can...

Well, there's been no actual confirmation as to who gave the promise as a lot of names have been thrown out there including Phoenix. Whatever the case, after he figured he doesn't have to work out for teams any more, he probably stopped working altogether. I don't know what's with Cleveland and #4. ...

Never understood how stock of a guy projected at mid-teens all of a sudden shot up so quickly in mocks especially since he stopped doing workouts altogether so early in the process. I can understand if a guy impressed so much during workouts with his athleticism/skills, which is what usually happens...

Nope. Don't watch summer league although I do look at stats and read reports since I'm still interested to know how the rookies do. Kinda waste of time to watch the games when they can give you false hope. Watching some of them dominate some no-name scrub and fall flat against real competition. Ever...

As much as summer league means, Jeremy Lamb looks better. As much as summer league means.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. And that shooting % kinda stinks.

My beef isn't that I think he could've netted us more by himself. Only that there are more than two months left in offseason and you can trade him for peanuts later after they've exhausted all their options with other pieces. See if he can't help move other pieces or get slightly more value back. If...

Last I'll say on Fields and his contract since he's already here and it's a waste of time now. I feel Landry Fields certainly can hurt us just cause we have to resort to making this kind of stupid trade and pat ourselves on the back for clearing $2.8M off cap space for "flexibility" after ...

I shake my head at the stupidity.

Why argue for merits of Landry Fields right now straight up when you yourself admit that Colangelo wouldn't sign him to the deal he did if he wasn't trying to force Nash's hands? Really, I have doubts if Colangelo would even try to get him if not for Nash because really, it's making a move for the s...