The Toronto Raptors are 4-16, players have apparently given up and it's going to be a long December, January, February, March and April. Perfect timing for (recently extended) general manager Bryan Colangelo to swoop in and perform an autopsy, right? That's what Doug Smith of the Toronto Star reports is happening in Los Angeles this weekend.
Raptors’ Bryan Colangelo doing an autopsy on team
The Raptors are as bad as they’ve been in years despite high hopes. Toronto’s boss Bryan Colangelo has joined the team at the end of its road trip to figure out what happened.
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Colangelo, who had long planned to join the team here at the end of a season-long road trip, was going to continue his fact-finding mission with a series of private sessions with some players and the coaching staff Saturday night.
“There’s been a lot of dialogue, a lot of discussion,” he said. “It’s constant evaluation of what we’re doing and how we’re doing it and why we’re doing it.”
This whole situation is unfortunate. Fans and seemingly the team's brain trust conceded that the Raptors would be bad in 2011-12 as Toronto took a chance on Lithuanian big man Jonas Valanciunas, who wouldn't arrive until this season. Valanciunas, another lottery pick and maybe a solid player acquired in free agency or by trade would turn it around for 2012-13 and get the team in the playoff chase.
Instead, the Raptors are worse than they were last year. Kyle Lowry, the big acquisition, has been good. Valanciunas and that lottery pick, Terrence Ross, have been ... rookies. Pretty much everyone else has been bad most of the time. It's really very unfortunate.
Teams probably won’t be terribly active in the trade market until January 15, when all 2012 free agents are in play and options open up. But if things continue like this, you’d expect Colangelo to be hitting the phones hard. This isn’t working.
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