If you believe that Bryan Colangelo has been trying to recreate the 2006-07 version of the Toronto Raptors, then you will have noticed just how closely the 2009-10 Raptors have resembled that earlier version.
Check out Raptors will Bounce Back in the 2009-10 Season for a complete description of all the similarities.
In 2006, Bryan Colangelo started the season with only six returning players and in 2009, he did it again. And with only four returning players destined to see much time in their team’s rotation, both of these reconstructed Raptors teams went through a very rough learning curve.
Players who didn’t know how to play together and coaches who didn’t know who to put on the floor conspired to produced a less than encouraging seven win, 13 loss start to the season each time.
But in 2006, the Raptors went 40-22 to finish out the season tying the Raptors record for wins in a season. Those 2006 Raptors “gelled” as a team and closed out the season winning 2/3rds of their games.
In reality, “gelling” in 2006 really meant Sam Mitchell figured out that playing Garbajosa at small forward turned a collection o ...
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