Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Vince Carter a black eye for the Raptors franchise
Vince Carter had to sides to his Raptors career and first side was 1998 til July 2001 where he was simply awesome as he took down a dunk contest along with the only playoff series victory and were a bucket away from playing Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA East conference final. He also Rookie of the year and he put up 18.3 points in his rookie season, sophomore season he averaged 25.7, and in his third season he had a career high 26.7 points and it was probably some of best Raptors basketball in franchise history.
The second side was the embarrassing Vince Carter October 2001 - December 18,2004 and Vince Carter spent more time rolling around on the court and spending time in the training room getting massaged then he made big buckets and saw his games during a season go down playing 60 games in 01-02 and 43 during 02-03 season before playing 73 games in his last full season with the Raptors in 03-04 and his last 20 games @ the beginning of the 04-05 season was a wait and see approach as the fans waited for him to be traded.
I really got sick and tired of the Vince act after signing his extension because after watch him rolling around on the court after a dozen repeats of said act. It was so bad by the end it did not matter what they got for him it was just better to have him no longer on the Toronto Raptors.
If the organization honors him in anyway it will look really bad and they will be the laughing stalk of the league as they would be honoring a guy that had no interest in playing for the Raptors the 3 plus seasons he spent dogging it after the Raptors brought in the dream and resigned his teammates to fat contracts because Vince wanted it. This would tell players around the league that the organization does not care about themselves and it is also ok to half ass it and I can not believe that if they make it good with VC it will encourage better players to come to Toronto and better the team.
Vince had three very good seasons and mailed in 3 plus more seasons
Tom Mehegan
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