Phoenix Problems, Denver Questions & Raptors Reality with Eddie Johnson

Welcome back to the Raptors show.

Blake Murphy, Matt Bonner, and Amit Mann with you.

And Matt, I have no idea where this is going.

I rarely know where you're going to start the shows with.

Today we had Eddie Johnson off the top.

And Matt has promised he has an abstract NBA thought.

I find a lot of your thoughts to be abstract.

Maybe not abstract was the wrong word.

Big picture NBA thought.

All right.

What do we got? I have thoughts on this.

I'm not going to say them because I want to hear you guys first, and I don't want to say all my thoughts because I've already prepped for this or thought about it.

I wore this Gators shirt today because there were no NBA games last night, and I watched Florida-Miami opening night game, University of Florida, University of Miami.

University of Florida preseason number one.

in college basketball, go Gators.

They defeated the Miami Hurricanes, pre-season number 14.

It was a good game.

And I'm watching the game thinking like, these dudes, like, these guys are, everybody on the court is so big and strong.

And if you're like an 18 year old coming out of high school your chance of being able to physically stay on the floor and compete with these guys, it's impossible unless you're absolute virtuoso like Cooper Flagg or Cam Boozer, like a top five pick.

And then you dig into it, and it's like, A lot of them are older, upperclassmen.

They have fifth-year eligibility that was passed by the NCAA, so you have guys who are fifth year.

So now you're pushing like 22, 23 years old in college.

It's a huge advantage compared to like 18, 19-year-olds.

Think of how much your body develops physically and how much your game grows.

Now, it got me thinking.

Welcome back to the Raptors show.

Blake Murphy, Matt Bonner, and Amit Mann with you.

And Matt, I have no idea where this is going.

I rarely know where you're going to start the shows with.

Today we had Eddie Johnson off the top.

And Matt has promised he has an abstract NBA thought.

I find a lot of your thoughts to be abstract.

Maybe not abstract was the wrong word.

Big picture NBA thought.

All right.

What do we got? I have thoughts on this.

I'm not going to say them because I want to hear you guys first, and I don't want to say all my thoughts because I've already prepped for this or thought about it.

I wore this Gators shirt today because there were no NBA games last night, and I watched Florida-Miami opening night game, University of Florida, University of Miami.

University of Florida preseason number one.

in college basketball, go Gators.

They defeated the Miami Hurricanes, pre-season number 14.

It was a good game.

And I'm watching the game thinking like, these dudes, like, these guys are, everybody on the court is so big and strong.

And if you're like an 18 year old coming out of high school your chance of being able to physically stay on the floor and compete with these guys, it's impossible unless you're absolute virtuoso like Cooper Flagg or Cam Boozer, like a top five pick.

And then you dig into it, and it's like, A lot of them are older, upperclassmen.

They have fifth-year eligibility that was passed by the NCAA, so you have guys who are fifth year.

So now you're pushing like 22, 23 years old in college.

It's a huge advantage compared to like 18, 19-year-olds.

Think of how much your body develops physically and how much your game grows.

Now, it got me thinking.