Think we’ll get official word on Hassam Adams and his two-year, minimum-value deal today, believe it’ll be finally time to officially unveil Matt Devlin as the new play-by-play guy on Tuesday and then the big day with both Jermaine O’Neal and Jose allegedly coming to town on Wednesday to do all kinds of fun stuff, including speaking with us.
the summer league team convenes in Vegas tomorrow for a couple of days of practice before starting to play at the end of the week.
We still haven’t seen a roster (I expect that’ll be out there today sometime) but am told by Someone Who’d Know that it looks like Joey Graham will be out there, trying to do something to resurrect his game after spending most of last season at the end of the bench or the inactive list.
Graham’s the enigma, of course. Good Joey, Bad Joey and all that. No one has any real idea whether he can be a major contributor this year or not (I suspect history holds and it’s more “not”) but there are those in the organization who still think he can be a major player here and they’re giving him every opportunity to prove it.
Oh, and one name I didn’t hear around the summer league team was Jamario Moon. There seems to be some question of whether or not he’ll play. I can’t see why he wouldn’t (it’s not like his game is entirely polished) but it’s not 100 per cent yet that he’ll be there.
I thought it’d be interesting to take a look at how Bryan Colangelo has transformed the team this offseason. He seems to have changed his vision with regards to how he wants the team to play. He came to Toronto in early 2006 and from the jump, it was evident he wanted to play the same fast-paced, up-tempo style he chose for the Phoenix Suns. He traded promising rookie Charlie Villanueva for a breakneck-quick point guard in T.J. Ford. He brought in European stars like Anthony Parker and Jorge Garbajosa to fit right into the system, and then traded old scraps to acquire Rasho Nesterovic. Sam Mitchell’s initial ‘100 shots per game’ idea didn’t work out and now the team has a very different look. Here are the storylines and possible reasons for the change:
10. Toronto Raptors
They had a decent season, but not as well as hoped.
Wow, congrats on the JO deal. They basically give up TJ whom they don’t even need because of Calderon and some other stoofs to get JO. The combination of JO and Bosh, mind you they are both accomplished inside players, should be great this season. They have a lot of young guys, so they’re pretty much set. Of course, JO needs to stay healthy for this to happen. Let’s hope a change of environment will do him good.
Looks like they’ll have another decent year.
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