Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast, offseason preview series where Bryce Simon and I break down all 30 teams and what they have to do this summer.

Today we're going to talk about Toronto Raptors.

A fascinating offseason ahead for the Raptors, a wonderful basketball team who I correctly predicted in the regular season would make the

playoffs outright.

And they did.

What a great basketball team this Toronto Raptors team is.

I truly think that I enjoyed watching the Raptors.

This is like for real.

I think I genuinely enjoyed watching the Raptors more than any other team in the league

this year just because they were funky and weird on some than any other team in the league this year.

Just because they were funky and weird on some level, they dealt with injury throughout the year and kind of worked through that.

But then on top of it, just like, there is, there are so few places in the NBA that I think are cooler than Toronto for a playoff series.

That fan base gets behind that team so aggressively. I love everything about the Toronto Raptors vibe.

Bryce, tell me about the Toronto Raptors and what you think about where they're headed.

Yeah, I won't go quite as far as you, but I agree that they were probably every year, it's not like we sit down and go, hey, this is the team we should really push on the podcast this year, right? I feel like it just happens organically. And Toronto was that team, or at least one of those teams this season. They were probably one of my top three or five watches. And

honestly, Sam, it goes back to Summer League. I remember driving home and just thinking about

that Raptor Summer League defensive intensity and just how it was different than just about

every other team there and just going through it in my head. Okay, what's this going to look

like in the NBA? What's their roster look like? Are all of these guys going to buy into it?

This is going to be perfect for Colin Murray Boyles and Jamal Shed and all of those. I think it was

Chuckie Hepburn, right? That was doing it at Summer League. So it really was. I think

Scotty Barnes took a leap. I think Scotty Barnes for me and

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