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DeMar DeRozan: I'm thinking about doing the dunk contest this season


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All he has to do is put on a VC jersey, point to VC in the crowd and do one of his signature dunks from the competition when VC was in it.

 

Also I saw a video of Demar landing in TO, he is apparently looking forward to the snow lol... hopefully he is being sincere about how excited he is to be in Toronto and that it's not all just a front for when he leaves in 4 years once he is good.

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BC should realize Euros aren't working and that Raptors or any team for that matter will never duplicate the European success like the Spurs.

 

Euros are the only ones who WANT to be here though lol, most of the traditional American stars want/would want to gtfo after 4/5 years once their rookie year is done. Demar must want to be here, because BC wouldn't have taken him otherwise which is a good thing.

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All he has to do is put on a VC jersey, point to VC in the crowd and do one of his signature dunks from the competition when VC was in it.

 

Also I saw a video of Demar landing in TO, he is apparently looking forward to the snow lol... hopefully he is being sincere about how excited he is to be in Toronto and that it's not all just a front for when he leaves in 4 years once he is good.

Holy [expletive], if that happened, damn...

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Euros are the only ones who WANT to be here though lol, most of the traditional American stars want/would want to gtfo after 4/5 years once their rookie year is done. Demar must want to be here, because BC wouldn't have taken him otherwise which is a good thing.

 

That is becase the Raptors, for the most part, have been a below average to bad franchise. They had that brief stint of being an upper echelon team in the East during Vince Carter's best years as a Raptor, but other than that the Raptors have, for the most part, been irrelevant when it comes to the East. If the Raptors were a good team then players will come here. They have historically been a poor team so that doesn't help when trying to draw big name free agents to come here.

 

Yeah playing in Canada may have something to do with it, in fact it does have something to do with it, but if the Raptors were a top team in the league nobody would give a crap about coming to Toronto if it means that they have a chance to do something special (unless they are really stubborn people that are anti-Canadian in every sense of the word lol).

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That is becase the Raptors, for the most part, have been a below average to bad franchise. They had that brief stint of being an upper echelon team in the East during Vince Carter's best years as a Raptor, but other than that the Raptors have, for the most part, been irrelevant when it comes to the East. If the Raptors were a good team then players will come here. They have historically been a poor team so that doesn't help when trying to draw big name free agents to come here.

 

Yeah playing in Canada may have something to do with it, in fact it does have something to do with it, but if the Raptors were a top team in the league nobody would give a crap about coming to Toronto if it means that they have a chance to do something special (unless they are really stubborn people that are anti-Canadian in every sense of the word lol).

 

Add to that the tax complications as well as the exchange rate, this is just not a desirable destination. But I think it has to do with a preconceived idea of all people that Toronto is a crummy place, when it's not, anyone who has been here has had nothing but good to say about the city, sure the weather can get bad in the winter but who cares? Half of the season you're on the road and hardly even in town, you're at home in the Summer.

 

Anyways, I agree, the only way that Toronto can become a desirable place is to establish themselves as a good team, but that won't be possible as long as people don't want to be here in the first place. Building a team in Toronto(or LAC, Memphis etc) is A LOT harder than any other franchise in the league, that is why a lot of the criticism of BC is unfair, he has to consider if the player he is getting will be here long term. Would Gay want to be here this time next year? Aldy? Roy? At least we know Bargs wants to be here and isn't looking to jump ship in 2010.

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shouldnt he be focusing on playing basketball not what neat dunks he can do?

 

 

Do the Raptors look like a good team to you? Winning games would be preferable, but if that can't happen, you may as well look for some way to boost your team's...what's the word...presence.

 

Demar has a better shot at winning the dunk comp than Toronto does at winning games.

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Do the Raptors look like a good team to you? Winning games would be preferable, but if that can't happen, you may as well look for some way to boost your team's...what's the word...presence.

 

Demar has a better shot at winning the dunk comp than Toronto does at winning games.

 

nope, but they should be looking towards winning games not dunk comps

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I'm hoping he's not another "Gerald Green" for Toronto's sake.

 

Definitely not. He has 10 fingers and not 9 and a half.

 

Sorry Gerald that was kinda harsh http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif

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Definitely not. He has 10 fingers and not 9 and a half.

 

Sorry Gerald that was kinda harsh http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif

 

dont worry i was thinkin the same thing lol

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