Valanciunas Mix

[Tool]

Just for clarification, if there is an NBA season next year, he will definitely be playing for us or will he still be in Europe?

He's joining the team for the 2012-13 season regardless of what happens this year (lockout/short season whatever it may be)

[Sekman]

can he not be a tim duncan one day??? he's got some quickness (in terms of turn around, body movements, ie: not speed)

[Toni]

kid really looks like the real deal.

today against serbia he had 18 pts, 13 reb and 3 blocks.

two days ago against canada 15pts, 9 reb and 4 blocks in 19 mins!

Only 2 fouls in 34 minutes against Serbia too

[Reef]

Against the US today, he had 30 pts, 15 rebs, 4 blks!! He's averaging 21.4 pts, 13.4 rebs, 3.6 blks in 28.1 mins!!

[Kungfro]

Stop hyping me up guys, I want to keep my expectations low so I can be pleasantly surprised when he starts playing for the Raps.

[Toni]

Against the US today, he had 30 pts, 15 rebs, 4 blks!! He's averaging 21.4 pts, 13.4 rebs, 3.6 blks in 28.1 mins!!

Colangelo doesn't know what the **** he's doing

[Reef]

Colangelo doesn't know what the **** he's doing

He's in love with Euros. He drafted another Bargnani clone.

[Burgz]

He's in love with Euros. He drafted another Bargnani clone.

lol he's not a clone but in the spirit of BC bashing i'll agree

[Reef]

lol he's not a clone but in the spirit of BC bashing i'll agree

I was joking like Toni was. So far Val is the anti-Bargs!

[Burgz]

I was joking like Toni was. So far Val is the anti-Bargs!

i kind of agree with Toni

so much so that i think BC doesn't know what he's doing to the point where he makes good decisions hahaha

[bluerap]

it's hard to fault bc for his draft picks.
even if you think bargs wasn't the best option he was still easily worthy of a top 3 in that weak draft, so it wasn't that far of a stretch.
demar and davis were very solid picks.
val looks like he could become a very solid #5.

The roy hibbert trade definitely didn't work out, but still would have been a good pick at 17.

the other year - 2007, the pick was traded back in 2002 by glen grunwald for yogi stewart.


now if we could only keep him away from free agency!

[FCardelle]

Draft is a scouts' work. You see how good a GM is in the trades, and BC is awful.

[Nastradamus]

He's in love with Euros. He drafted another Bargnani clone.

I hope people don't really think this. JV plays at the rim, always. Great finisher, great defender. Not a great outside shooter, not soft, not Bargs.

[DJMason]

Draft is a scouts' work. You see how good a GM is in the trades, and BC is awful.

Trades and signings, and on that you have 100% agreement from me

I kinda hope they lock next year out. JV gets more experience than everyone not going to Europe (and hopefully with our guidance gets bigger) and hopefully it results in a hard cap so that BC can stop overpaying players with the exemptions that he treats like free money and teams like the lakers can't just pay the salary taxes to stay on top.

I don't enjoy my backup teams enough, and find them too difficult to watch, for another year of Raptor basketbally without the new blood joining the team to be a propisition I have interest in.

[raptorfan_dr07]

Prior to the draft, I found Valanciunas to be intriguing, and I'm pleased that he was the pick(as opposed to other names I heard being thrown around: Biyombo, Leonard, Vesely ). He does have nice potential and can end up being one of the better players in this draft. I think a couple of others here have already said that a Val/Davis front court could end up being pretty solid a few years down the road.