Grange on NBA: Power of the point guard
The thing about rebuilding is you need a lot of pieces, and you can't get them all at once.
The Toronto Raptors need more pieces than a Lego set -- nothing new there -- but as the club was preparing for the 2009 draft the screaming need was for an athletic wing player; someone who could score late in the shot-clock and guard the kind of players that other teams relied on in the same situation.
And so they drafted DeMar DeRozan with the ninth pick out of the University of
The Toronto Raptors need more pieces than a Lego set -- nothing new there -- but as the club was preparing for the 2009 draft the screaming need was for an athletic wing player; someone who could score late in the shot-clock and guard the kind of players that other teams relied on in the same situation.
And so they drafted DeMar DeRozan with the ninth pick out of the University of
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