Toronto Raptors Off-Season Post: Home of the Red, White, and BLACK

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More Jamario type signings (referring to the unknown player factor) by BC.


Raptors Sign Free Agent Will Solomon


July 28, 2008

The Toronto Raptors announced Monday they have signed free-agent guard Will Solomon. Per team policy, financial details were not disclosed.

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Solomon, 30, played the past two seasons in Istanbul, Turkey for Fenerbahce Ulker. He averaged 17.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.3 steals in 13 regular season games last season. In Euroleague Top 16 play, he contributed 20.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in six games. He had a high of 28 points in 32 minutes versus Tau Ceramica.

Solomon, 6-foot-1, 185 pounds, was selected 33rd overall in the 2001 NBA Draft by the Vancouver Grizzlies. He appeared in 62 games with the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2001-02 season, averaging 5.2 points, 1.5 rebounds and 14.2 minutes.

Solomon has played overseas since 2002. He spent the 2002-03 season in Greece with Aris Thessaloniki. He moved to Israel and Hapoel Jerusalem in 2003-04. In 2004-05, he played in Turkey for Efes Pilsen Istanbul. He joined current Raptor Anthony Parker on Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2005-06 and in 2006 he signed with his current club, Fenerbahce Ulker.

The native of East Hartford, Connecticut averaged 15.2 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 94 career games in three seasons at Clemson University. He entered the NBA Draft following his junior season. He earned first-team All-ACC honours as a sophomore and second-team as a junior. He led the ACC in scoring as a sophomore at 20.9 points. He finished fourth in the conference in his junior campaign at 19.7 points. Solomon finished his career second all-time in school history in made three-point field goals (214).
 
^ Looking at his stats, he seems like a score first type PG/SG to me. Kind of like a Juan Dixon.

I dont know how this will work out, seeing how Dixon turned out last season, but we'll see. In BC I trust.
 
Damn, dude looks great on tape. But seeing how highlight films, well... show only highlights, we don't know exactly how good he is. But he does look nice.

I heard he played with AP before and AP recommended him to the higher-ups (BC and company) and I guess they signed him.
 
Lets hope things work out with Soloman. im not expecting much, but if we get something good in return, then hells to the yes.

Btw, brrrraptors, in your first post, i loved the first two jerseys. Those two would be great.
 
Btw, brrrraptors, in your first post, i loved the first two jerseys. Those two would be great.
ok i looked back paaages and i didnt see any of brrrrr's jerseys. did i miss a link?

unless you're talkin' about mine (im so glory selfish
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Lets hope things work out with Soloman. im not expecting much, but if we get something good in return, then hells to the yes.

i dont think its going to make huge diffence anyway. as the 3rd pg he wont see any minutes of signifigance.

unless he pushes roko for that backup spot
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on the pg situation, what kinda numbers do you guys think jose is going to put up this season?
 
I predict around 15 and 8.5-9.

Since he'll get much more time this season, he may have more turnovers, but as long as he performs on the court it's all good.
 
i think about 14 ppg max, i think his ability to score over an entire season is still in question.

9 ast is a very real possubility tho.

if anything i think the olympics are going to help the raps.

bosh usually seems to start the season slow, in fact im pretty sure he thinks its against the rules to dunk the ball before january.

he should be nice and warmed up for the start of the season tho.
 
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I can see him averaging a double double since he will be getting lot more playing time this year.

But im really looking forward to seeing that big front court we got this year,lets pray that Jermaine O'neal stays healthy.
 
Anyone see the schedule today?

We open @ Philadelphia and open at home vs. the Warriors.

and our longest road trip:

December Fri 19 @ Oklahoma City
Sat 20 @ San Antonio
Mon 22 @ LA Clippers
Fri 26 @ Sacramento
Sat 27 @ Portland
Mon 29 @ Golden State


And we have 2 games televised nationally through the US.

Fri 05 @ Utah 10:30pm ESPN


Fri 10 vs Washington 8:00pm ESPN2
 
Still no ABC or TNT eh. They're doin us dirty.

I think we'll have a huge rivalry against Philly. Elton Brand makes that team and our division so much better. I don't even want to think about Boston.
 
^ And to think two years ago, we were the best in the conference.
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Who would have thought the Atlantic would end up like this?
 
Ok, so I dont know if it was posted before, but our new logo's are below.
As well, for those in the Edmonton area, from my understanding the Raptors will have a preseason game in Edmonton September 31. I might try and make the 5/6hour drive, depending on school
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Anyway, the logo changes:

Main Logo:
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Alternate Logos:
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In other words, we have no hope to see the purple uni's again. I would love to see the old white one though...

Edit: Ok, for some reason unknown, I cant get it to work. Here is the website:
http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=227

If someone can get them up, much appreciated. For some reason, I cant get it to work.
 
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