Poll: Will Raps HQ hate the next transaction?

In general, most of the moves are panned because they are bad moves/lateral moves and even some of the successful ones are merely minimizing a mistake (Barbosa for Turkoglu, even though nothing is preferable to having Barbosa at 7m per). And they also get taken by me with the context that we likely have zero future perennial all-stars on the roster (this means no one-time fluke all-stars count). Also consider this: A slight upgrade on the Lakers can be the difference between a title and being runner-up. A slight upgrade on the Raptors means another win or two in the regular season followed by the same inevitable first round massacre. Committing money to adding a few wins now is actually counter-productive as our draft position will leave us with less of a chance to grab the few high impact players which generally go early in a draft. This leads us into low-lottery limbo, generally an undesirable location for NBA franchises.

As someone had just brought it up in the other thread, I did enjoy the moves of Delfino + Ukic for Johnson + Weems at the time (assuming very little of Weems other than a handful of dunks), as well as George for Belinelli. Kind of like trading Araujo for Humphries. The gain was giving up dead cap space for some usable young talent with a little promise. Had I been a Buck/Warrior fan, I would have rightfully slagged those GMs just as hard for those as I do our GM for a job poorly done. But while both deals would be considered good moves for us, it is realistic (even after a promising year from Weems) that none of these guys may be real difference-makers for the Toronto Raptors in the long-run. And also consider that we had committed to keeping Bosh for the season in the hopes of resigning him, but didn’t manage to secure anything that could provide a good reason to stick around (except in the event of a miracle).