Es Baraheni
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16,801 appearances
190 recordings
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first heard Nov 2024
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Es Baraheni’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What do you think is the biggest X factor for this Raptors team to hit their full ceiling?
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Look, there's a little bit more pressure on all of these guys now because the Raptors are in winning mode.
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You know, last year it was, Hey, how much more can we get out of everybody?
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Uh of course we're introducing BI into the fold and how that's gonna look.
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But now when you have Kawhi who's in his mid thirties, who can get to a top five player level, who can compete against basically any other player in the
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the in the NBA in any given series, you are telling your team, you're telling the front office, you're telling your fan base that you want to win a championship.
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And that's as much as Bobby Webster said to Kawhi Leonard in that open gym video, he said, let's go get you that third chip.
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The expectation is to win a championship at some point in the time Kawhi is here.
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That puts pressure on Emmanuel Quickley.
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That puts pressure on RJ Barrett.
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It puts pressure on Jakob.
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And to your point, Trey, some of the younger guys to make sure that they get to the level that they need to.
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You need to have a deep rotation.
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You need eight or nine guys consistently in the playoff rotation to play positive minutes.
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Uh, can this Raptors team get that next season?
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I think that's the biggest question that they have.
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And, you know, to to kind of add
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To the points that you guys were talking about, I think the front court is just as much a question as perhaps all of these other ones.
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When you have Yakapurto, who last year uh, you know, played and played, I would say, not the best basketball of his career, was dealing with back injuries, uh, played just 46 games in the playoffs.
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It felt like it was very clear that Colin Murray Boyles was just one of
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