Continuing our season outlook series here on the dunked on basketball podcasts with the Toronto Raptors

I'm joined by Blake Murphy of Raptors, repellent we had a chance to hang out at in the not so frozen north actually as it was at the

Deling showcase always good to have you on the program like hey, thanks for having me on man

Absolutely, so this is one we start on a lot of these with the amount of retention that this team has had

Although they've lost some players as we'll get to I think it's an interesting question of just how good this team was

Last year right after they made the trade for ibokka and tucker or the trades for ibokka and tucker

They lost lary he returned just before the start of the playoffs

They won around against mowaki of the lay looked shaky at times and doing so and then we're in the midst of getting blown out

by cleveland when lary went down with an ankle injury in the third quarter of game two of that series

And then the series ended up being a sweep

So that obviously maybe was a little bit disappointing for a team that made it to six games in the conference finals

The year before

So how good were these guys last year?

Were they if healthy do you think they could have actually contended more in the east than they did or is it just

All right, they're bringing back these guys. They're okay. They're 50 wins and you know

That's just what it's gonna be from here on out

Yeah, disappointing is the right word for it because you know for for this has been the core now for four years

And they've been at roughly the same level they took that big swing at the calves and then everyone was kind of you know

The same mentality is like okay if this is your ceiling, you know

Take one good shot at it to make sure you can't actually beat cleveland see what you really have and Messiah

Jeerie who generally loads in season trades did that and picking up Tucker and Abaka and trading some draft pick equity

In Terrence Ross to do so and then they never really got you know

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