you've been in the lotto a couple of years now. You do have Jonas V on the way with another top 10 pick to add to an already young team. Don't you wanna at least get these young guys off on the right foot? Put it like this: unless you wanna full on tank for Shabazz, don't set your sights on tanking next year. Nash won't be there long enough to make y'all a treadmill team. At this point, it's in your best interest that Bargs, Jonas V and Demar DeRozan get it together so they can be your core going forward. Nash can only help there.
to me, the right foot is having a proper vision (a true rebuild in this case) and executing it rather than bringing in old fukks that are probably still good enough to balloon your squad up to something better than it is without him.
nash will immediately make us better but when he retires in a couple years, then what? they'll have to re-learn how to play without one of the goat passers orchestrating the offense.
bargs is what he is. demar will improve in certain aspects but he's pretty close to his ceiling i think, production-wise...jonas is a blank slate. i don't see the point in spoiling him.
i'm a raptors fan man. i'm sick of this shyt. either we're gonna develop a team from the ground up or we're not and we'll end up an 8th seed and lose in the first round for the rest of eternity.
i'd rather continue having a bad record, get some talent and build instead of putting band-aids on gunshot wounds over and over again.