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Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« on: October 09, 2015, 11:42:28 AM »

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Both of their salaries work. Both teams would benefit on this trade. Toronto desperately needs a starting PF. Ross still has potential and maybe Brad could work his magic on him.

Re: Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2015, 11:49:11 AM »

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Both of their salaries work. Both teams would benefit on this trade. Toronto desperately needs a starting PF. Ross still has potential and maybe Brad could work his magic on him.

Toronto has Patrick Patterson, Luis Scola, James Johnson, and now Anthony Bennett at PF. They are not desperate for another.
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Re: Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2015, 01:14:19 PM »

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Both of their salaries work. Both teams would benefit on this trade. Toronto desperately needs a starting PF. Ross still has potential and maybe Brad could work his magic on him.

Toronto has Patrick Patterson, Luis Scola, James Johnson, and now Anthony Bennett at PF. They are not desperate for another.

IMO none of those power forwards you listed are starting caliber. Sullinger is arguably much better in terms of skill and potential.

Re: Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2015, 01:52:20 PM »

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similar to the AB for Ross proposal over the summer.  don't see the fascination for Ross -- certainly not at the expense of giving up the better player in the deal whether it's AB or Sully

Re: Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2015, 02:34:25 PM »

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Both of their salaries work. Both teams would benefit on this trade. Toronto desperately needs a starting PF. Ross still has potential and maybe Brad could work his magic on him.

Toronto has Patrick Patterson, Luis Scola, James Johnson, and now Anthony Bennett at PF. They are not desperate for another.

IMO none of those power forwards you listed are starting caliber. Sullinger is arguably much better in terms of skill and potential.

That depends on what role you want your starting PF to play. Sullinger may be the best talent of the bunch, but in terms of a stretch 4 (the best option to play alongside Valanciunas), Patterson is better than Sullinger (or at least, has a demonstrably better track record as a 3 point shooter).

A platoon of Patterson (shooting)/Johnson (defense)/Scola (scoring/smallball center) is plenty effective for Toronto. Why would they trade away depth at the 2 (leaving Powell the only backup to DeRozan) for small (if any) gains to the starting lineup?
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Re: Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2015, 03:20:08 PM »

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Looking at the Raps' depth chart, I think PF is probably their only position of strength/production.

http://espn.go.com/nba/team/depth/_/name/tor/toronto-raptors

I get the "greater than the sum of its parts" aspect to their starting five. But it seems to me that at least one of Ross, Joseph, or Caboclo needs to make a quantum leap this year if that bench is going to help Toronto win games. Outside of Scola, I don't see much scoring there.

Wonder if Toronto is going to miss Lou Williams this year.
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Re: Trade Idea: Sullinger for T. Ross
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2015, 03:33:10 PM »

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Both of their salaries work. Both teams would benefit on this trade. Toronto desperately needs a starting PF. Ross still has potential and maybe Brad could work his magic on him.

Toronto has Patrick Patterson, Luis Scola, James Johnson, and now Anthony Bennett at PF. They are not desperate for another.

IMO none of those power forwards you listed are starting caliber. Sullinger is arguably much better in terms of skill and potential.

That depends on what role you want your starting PF to play. Sullinger may be the best talent of the bunch, but in terms of a stretch 4 (the best option to play alongside Valanciunas), Patterson is better than Sullinger (or at least, has a demonstrably better track record as a 3 point shooter).

A platoon of Patterson (shooting)/Johnson (defense)/Scola (scoring/smallball center) is plenty effective for Toronto. Why would they trade away depth at the 2 (leaving Powell the only backup to DeRozan) for small (if any) gains to the starting lineup?

Patterson - Valanciunas tandem didn't work out last year though as it supposed to. But I must admit you have a point on the 2 guard depth issue if Ross is eventually traded.