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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1938050, member: 1969"] BC has always had an infatuation with Ilyvsova (sp) ... going all the way back to his Raptors days. BC loves to move about 10,000 pieces each off season, but he is also prone to having one or two love childs on the team like Andrea Bargnani who he will try to force into the core and protect at all costs. As a Raps fans, I do have to give BC credit for getting the talent that makes up the core of the current team. Especially the Kyle Lowry for #12 overall pick which worked out great. But he has no clue how to mold a team into a winner. Without Masai taking over for the fired BC, the Raps would not be a 56 win team. Masai brought a defensive culture, forced out the protected cancers (Bargnani). He traded away Rudy Gay, a hindrance to the team due to the fact that he was christened as a superstar by BC and he had no respect for other teammates who were his equals. Masai put together a team --- BC has no concept of that. He plays favourites and then moves all the other chairs around over and over. While BC may be able to acquire talent but is an absolute mess when it comes to making a team out of it. He is also prone to make win now moves that put a team onto a treadmill -- he loves to trade first rounders and sign mediocre veterans and claim he has filled holes on the team. Those holes are typically to fix the weaknesses of the few players on the team that he coddles. Consider 2009, when he proclaimed that he had put together a 50+ win team, a team that would convince Chris Bosh to stay after the season. The core he put together to support Bosh -- Hedo Turkoglu, Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani. The Raptors were not only last in the league in Defensive Efficiency for most of the season, at times they were all time bad. Sitting back, wasn't it obvious that the "core" was just terrible defensively and that this would not work. At the same time he extended Bargnani, and FORCED coaches to play him at the risk of them losing their job. Sixer fans are lucky that Embiid put it together fairly quickly this season or he may have become another chair that BC moved in an attempt to create a team that would win 40 games... forever. BC is a shining example of Nepotism. A sharply dressed man, who used it to hide his lack of ability. A used car salesman at heart. [/QUOTE]

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