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Brain Colangelo says: Jul 3, 2009 at 10:36 pm
steve fruitman and the teachers would also be great
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Brain Colangelo was the comment contributor in this thread who identified Steve Fruitman as an individual in whom confidence could be shown to provide sound judgment, as far as the making of a basketball-related decision for the Raptors.

According to Bryan Colangelo, himself, in his press conference today, Mr. Fruitman is actually the person responsible for generating the idea to combine Orlando in with the Sign & Trade of Shawn Marion to Dallas, via Memphis.

I would now add Steve Fruitman’s name onto my list, as well, in addition to Wayne Embry’s name.

in life, happy = successful and I am excited about this team maybe being both. I had reached the point where I was nervous/worried about marion coming back and moping. and my son has a #31 marion game jersey! :-)

if BC can find a small piece or two this could work beautifully and I think it gives us a top 4 that can compete with clev/orl/bos!

CB on twitter: “IF IT’S TRUE..Let’s get it cracking H Turk!!!”

nice! :-)

PLEASE COLANGELO. PLEASE.

As far as Turk goes, at least we have someone in crunch time that can and will make shots, effectively taking the ball out of Bosh’s hands in late game situations (we can only hope). Yes, we are less athletic, and we have little $ to work with to make any more moves, and you could make a case that we could have got a lot of other minor free agents cheap since we actually did have cap space, but if Marion effectively slapped us in the face by not accepting our offer, who else was out there for the kind of cap space $ we had to use that could be an integral part of our starting 5 in a position of need.

I am trying to stay positive on this, and let’s see how the roster gels early in the year before we diss it completely. I agree though that we have to go over the cap if necessary and MLSE had better anticipate paying some luxury tax this year. I do hope we can do a sign and trade with Orlando though as this would be a better situation for us instead of renouncing all of our players.

One more question: who is going to rebound the ball for us?

beidrins, barg, turk, derozan, calderon

belinelli, delfino, klieza, ukic, turiaf, evans

players that want to play here…

Yesterday my opinion started to shift weirdly. Not based so much on Turk, but on the reports that the Raps were lining up a massive offer for Marion, which sat even less well with me.

Also, Hollinger’s article on ESPN suggesting that teams sometimes had to overpay for the privilege of using their cap because cap disappears very quickly if you don’t use it.

Now I feel like a turncoat to myself! I turn on the PC and Turk has become a Rap, because he wants to play in the city, and play for the team (and has been offered a fuck-load of money!)and that makes me feel proud.

I’m still not sure, of course there are questions, but if Calderon stays healthy, DeRozen can play, Turk shocks me and ups his game, Bosh starts the season with something to prove and bargs plays to potential… isn’t this up there with the best squads we’ve had?

I think my overriding sentiment is this; I couldn’t stand another two or three years of failure and mediocrity. I don’t want to see the team suffer financially and I wish that we’d maybe found a Turk of our own, but… T.O. has been seen as a destination of choice. The team are a front page news story for the right reasons. Just remember, it’s not your money! Enjoy the upcoming season.

All that said… erm… how is he going to pay for this AND field a team??