Every team has that guy the fans want more of. It’s backup quarterback syndrome; the shiny untouched thing might not be better than the old hat thing you know, but what if it is?!
There’s a good chance we already know who that guy will be this season among Raptors fans. It’ll either be late-summer signing Svi Mykhailiuk, or it’ll be whomever loses his minutes to Svi after the preseason he just put together.
When the Raptors signed Mykhailiuk for two years and $3.6 million on August 31st, it felt like a shoulder shrug move. Yes, there was a player option attached to the second year, and guaranteed money for 2021-22, but it would not have been all that financially prohibitive to move on from him before the season if things didn’t go well in camp.