What are you excited about looking ahead over the next 5 years?
I’m gonna get this out of the way now; I really really disagreed with the process of the brown trade. I completely understand the way the current CBA works, I completely understand the potential value of draft picks and how valuable these picks could potentially be, I promise I fully understand this situation completely because I desperately dug into it trying to make it make more sense to me; it never did. I still don’t agree with it, I’d be happy to share with anyone interested why I feel that way, but that’s not what I wanted this post to be about.
The fallout of this stance I have is this is the hardest time I’ve personally ever had as a fan trying to get excited about the future of the team. We’ve had the jays for the last decade, no matter what, we always had the jays and that fact alone meant everything would be okay. That safety blanket is now gone, and the future to me feels far more uncertain.
My question to you guy, is what do you personally feel excited about over the next 5 years? Maybe you’re high on some young guys you think will pop? Maybe you think that clippers swap in ‘28 becomes a crazy valuable pick? Maybe it’s something else?
Genuinely just want to conjure that excitement I’ve felt every summer for the last decade or so, that I’ve been unable to feel this summer, hoping someone has some good stuff to share.
I will say one thing im very excited about and bullish on; Hugo Gonzalez. I’m absolutely certain he’s gonna at least be a good starter, and probably more. I just think he’s lightning in a bottle, sometimes you can just see it with some guys where you’re like “yeah this is gonna be something special”. I think Hugo starts this year and Pritchard stays a 6th man, and he takes a big leap. I also really like Cenac and thought it was a great pick, but I think he’s really gonna have to commit to playing as a big 4 to get nba minutes right now because of how deep our center rotation is currently and his lack of bulk.
So what good things do you think are coming to this team?