Attention Raptors organization: you are supposed to be bad this year. Your superstar left without a second thought, the superstar that brought you a championship, and now you’re supposed to collapse in a pile of bad contracts and over-tasked role-players. That’s what teams do when they lose their star. They become bad. So what are you waiting for? Teams are already tanking, every win, every “character-building” win, sends your chances of landing a top pick ever lower.
It’s just sad at this point, gamely pretending that you’re still good when you’re obviously not because of the departure of your MVP-type player. It’s pathetic. Seriously. I get embarrassed on your behalf every time you win a game, because it’s just so pathetic how hard your players play. Playing like they think they can win games, ha! Fred VanVleet can never be good, because of short he is. Pascal Siakam can never be good, because of how tall he is. I could go on and on, going down the roster one-by-one, telling you how garbage your players are. You already know, I’m sure, so why do you continue this ruse?
Do not even think about trying to make the playoffs. If, somehow, your ragtag group of role-players and scrubs managed to win enough games to make it that far, you would find that the devious tactics your players use to steal games away from real teams, tactics like “playing hard”, and “passing the ball”, would become useless. Especially against the Bucks. Please do not attempt to make the playoffs so you can play the Bucks. I don’t even want to see it.
Why can’t you just be a normal superstar-less team and go hang out with the Knicks at the bottom of the standings?