This sums up the way I feel after watching the raptors last couple of seasons
April 14, 2025
This sums up the way I feel after watching the raptors last couple of seasons
23 comments
Man who gives a shit
Were not reading all that come on
Hopefully we can be less cringe the next time the Raptors are good. It would be nice if this fanbase could be less angsty and more self-assured.
There’s a lot of victimhood here if the point is that “no one respects the 2019 championship”. History has been kind to that team, with fans and media seeing just how talented that team was. Both OG and FVV got paid 40M+ ffs.
I’m sure there are corners of the internet that are shit-talking that 2019 run and the franchise, but to acknowledge them is to acknowledge trolls. And there will always be members of the media who won’t like us, losing sleep over what Bill Simmons or Ryen Russillo says just isn’t worth it. And truthfully, a lot of their critiques aren’t fabricated out of nothing — a lot of players on the team are overpaid based on their current production. They will need to improve a lot for the team to be good.
Cringe
I read the whole thing hoping for a pay off….
>This sums up the way I feel after watching the raptors last couple of seasons
They don’t even talk about it
This account man lol
Laughing at Kyle Lowry exercising playoff tropes and demons lol
In just here to watch good hoops idk what yall are on about
Every team has to rebuild and gain respect after they ‘blow it up’. Some teams take longer than others due to a lot of factors, such as city/state appeal, legacy, and other things, so it’s not suprising Toronto takes longer to do so.
That’s why we have such a good scouting department to get high odds at getting good talent in the draft, a definite way to get a player instead of betting in FA or trying to trade.
This reads as a post from a newer Raptors/basketball fan who hasn’t had to watch/experience being a fan of a sub .500 basketball team for more than a season at a time.
Bro re posting his Twitter here?
Revisionist history, Bosh was good af.
These demons really getting a workout
“bosh was never good enough” is hilarious from account who would always twerk for us to build around siakam and fred. ironic
such a victim mentality/cringey post.
Imman post?
Giannis never looked even close to LBJ with his 0-2 record against us lol
Imman is my favorite part of Raps Twitter
The Raptors didn’t do a tear down and rebuild after the VC trade or after Bosh left. The 2010-11 team was basically the 2009-10 minus Bosh and with Hedo Turkoglu swapped out for Leandro Barbosa.
They had a trade in place that offseason with Charlotte involving Jose Calderon and Reggie Evans for Tyson Chandler and Boris Diaw that was a done deal before Michael Jordan overruled it before it could be called into the league office, but that wouldn’t have been a teardown move.
I really can’t be the only one who predicted that we would be a better team post Gay trade? People like the person in this post keep describing it like “no one saw it coming”. Uh no, plenty of us did and knew that either Gay and DeRozan did not work well together on the court and we needed to ship Gay since DeRozan had way more upside. Calling it a tanking move just meant people weren’t watching the games closely enough.
I actually think raptors fans and management underrate how good Kawhi Leonard was, and underrate how important having a true apex superstar is. Our unwillingness to bottom out in the draft or acquire one via trade kinda tells me that… we have the assets we should be trying to get the next available guy.
Lol what the heck is this. Reads like a portfolio item for an intern job at Sid Lee.
23 comments
Man who gives a shit
Were not reading all that come on
Hopefully we can be less cringe the next time the Raptors are good. It would be nice if this fanbase could be less angsty and more self-assured.
There’s a lot of victimhood here if the point is that “no one respects the 2019 championship”. History has been kind to that team, with fans and media seeing just how talented that team was. Both OG and FVV got paid 40M+ ffs.
I’m sure there are corners of the internet that are shit-talking that 2019 run and the franchise, but to acknowledge them is to acknowledge trolls. And there will always be members of the media who won’t like us, losing sleep over what Bill Simmons or Ryen Russillo says just isn’t worth it. And truthfully, a lot of their critiques aren’t fabricated out of nothing — a lot of players on the team are overpaid based on their current production. They will need to improve a lot for the team to be good.
Cringe
I read the whole thing hoping for a pay off….
>This sums up the way I feel after watching the raptors last couple of seasons
They don’t even talk about it
This account man lol
Laughing at Kyle Lowry exercising playoff tropes and demons lol
In just here to watch good hoops idk what yall are on about
Every team has to rebuild and gain respect after they ‘blow it up’. Some teams take longer than others due to a lot of factors, such as city/state appeal, legacy, and other things, so it’s not suprising Toronto takes longer to do so.
That’s why we have such a good scouting department to get high odds at getting good talent in the draft, a definite way to get a player instead of betting in FA or trying to trade.
This reads as a post from a newer Raptors/basketball fan who hasn’t had to watch/experience being a fan of a sub .500 basketball team for more than a season at a time.
Bro re posting his Twitter here?
Revisionist history, Bosh was good af.
These demons really getting a workout
“bosh was never good enough” is hilarious from account who would always twerk for us to build around siakam and fred. ironic
such a victim mentality/cringey post.
Imman post?
Giannis never looked even close to LBJ with his 0-2 record against us lol
Imman is my favorite part of Raps Twitter
The Raptors didn’t do a tear down and rebuild after the VC trade or after Bosh left. The 2010-11 team was basically the 2009-10 minus Bosh and with Hedo Turkoglu swapped out for Leandro Barbosa.
They had a trade in place that offseason with Charlotte involving Jose Calderon and Reggie Evans for Tyson Chandler and Boris Diaw that was a done deal before Michael Jordan overruled it before it could be called into the league office, but that wouldn’t have been a teardown move.
I really can’t be the only one who predicted that we would be a better team post Gay trade? People like the person in this post keep describing it like “no one saw it coming”. Uh no, plenty of us did and knew that either Gay and DeRozan did not work well together on the court and we needed to ship Gay since DeRozan had way more upside. Calling it a tanking move just meant people weren’t watching the games closely enough.
I actually think raptors fans and management underrate how good Kawhi Leonard was, and underrate how important having a true apex superstar is. Our unwillingness to bottom out in the draft or acquire one via trade kinda tells me that… we have the assets we should be trying to get the next available guy.
Lol what the heck is this. Reads like a portfolio item for an intern job at Sid Lee.