I think it was more so the shock factor as we the fans had been dangled Suggs in front of our mouths for months leading up to the draft when scottie was still slated somewhere in the low-mid teens iirc. I want to say that pretty well immediately after his first media availability and that public letter he penned to the city, basically everyone was on his side and I think you would be tremendously hard pressed to find anyone who really still wishes they had taken Suggs over Barnes

Nah that’s me, I’m the dude eating crow, as a casual raptors fan I accept my L, god bless Scottie Barnes mane!!!!!!

Nope. I didn't see Toronto media freak out. All articles out here were surprise given projection and draft boards, followed by "in Masai we trust."

Suggs could still be better than Scottie though. It's too early to tell. ROY doesn't mean hes going to be the best player.

Meanwhile Sam presti was linked to wanting him, so all thunder fans shed a tear hearing Toronto taking him

I cried :"

💯

Me too

He should be crying because that’s the only award he will ever win. The Raptors aren’t going to the finals and he will never make the HOF

@@RetroNBA42, You should delete your sorry, spiteful comment.

Generational talents is a bit much don’t you think

@@CarlosGarcia-jm8lr cade is

Scottie wasn't the best player but he was the most consistent.

@@CarlosGarcia-jm8lr nah man those are franchise changing players. Cade and Mobley are gonna be beasts for years barring any serious career altering injuries. Mobley especially really surprised me with how versatile he was. I thought the Bosh/AD comparisons were a little much, but if he polishes his offensive game a little more AND really learns how to play basketball, he’s gonna be a problem.

If scottie aint have all those weapons on his team he would be averaging 20

I don't know why people would slander them I thought it was kinda obvious they were going to pick him with how much they said they liked him in predaft workouts, and just how much potential he has in general

Definitely, I doubted the pick myself as a raptors fan. I wanted green to slide to 4th but this pick worked out great.

Did you see the video of Raptors fans in Vancouver having a hissy fit when they chose Barnes over Suggs? People just believe and feel whatever the media tells them they should believe and feel.

@@6ixgod432 listen, those ppl over there should be ashame at themselves for losing their team still....they never supported it like the way Torontoians has.

great game

Ima Lakers fan and I'm sick of seeing them inside the nba and on Undisputed 😘

Well, Lakers are a big market team and then add Lebron to the mix. NBA media was all over their noots this year, win or lose.

Cleveland Detroit and Toronto. I’m sorry unless a mega star like bron or kawhi is there. Even a trash lakers or whoever else is going to get more tv time just how tv media works.

@@ja1boi even when we had kawhi we barely got any screen time . We have a whole country behind our team too

It’s all money 💰. Toronto might be the 3rd biggest market in the league but Because the viewership numbers in Canada don’t count States side they view them as a negative to put on the air. It’s always going to be that way until they start counting the views in Canada on the Neilson ratings system.

Yea and idk what happened to Franz Wagner. He was #1 in the early ROTY voting and then he like disappeared

@@ClxdzProd Well he was number one because Scottie and Mobley were out

He's playing rn

Who really cares ? its a silly game and these kids should be doing reading and arithmatic , not stuff like this

@@redrum3075 ?

“The Portland Trailblazers will BEAT THE LAKERS!!” 😂😂 Yeah okay

Michael Jeffrey Jordan ruin many a player career prospect in the NBA.

"Ohh my bad" Kenny 🤣

Yup and Shaq said oh ok like valid excuse after calling him trash was funny

haha, caught that too!

I don't know if it matters much but Charles would have been voted 3rd for rookie of the year that year cause the 2nd best rookie (and the 2nd best player out of that draft) was future hall of fame Hakeem "the dream" Olajuwon. Really not a bad company to be with. Who was 2nd and 3rd rookies after Shaq?! Alonzo Mourning and Christian Laettner. Good players but no where near what Barkley had to face. For Shaq to constantly pat himself on the back any chance he gets is laughable. We get it you were great, no need to remind us.

MJ(best ever),Hakeem(top 10 best ever),and Barkley(top 20 best ever)-that class was stack. In any other years-Barkley would won rookies of the year easily.

@@2eken251 Not really Barkley rookie year numbers were good but not great. Those who truly had a great rookie year put numbers that made them look like All-Stars level already (like Luka did in recent memory)

It’s actually from the raptors tv program called Open Gym. They’ve been doing this for many seasons now

@@jlaw888 yep, and I wonder how many other teams have a show like Open Gym? It’s a great idea for any fan base… if there isn’t another show like it, then it just shows how unique the Raptors franchise really is!!

Yeah Open Gym is to thank for that. No way would the NBA send a camera crew to Toronto and give the Raptors anymore recognition that what they fight for...

@@donutube83 it’s nice to see the Leafs and Jays are doing it too. I haven’t seen much from other leagues

Appreciate u

Thanks for the class, us Raps fans love him to death already and im sure its the same with Cade. He'll be a monster

Imagine being a pistons fan😂

@@juniorcripsta2430 imagine being a fan with class. If you can even understand that

@@juniorcripsta2430 I’m not a fan of either teams but what’s wrong with being a pistons fan? Lol rookie of the year this year is an awesome achievement but means very little considering cade, Mobley, and Barnes were so close, coulda been a toss up. I consider all 3 the rookies of the year..All 3 are gonna be franchise level players. Pistons have a few solid young players in sadiq bey, bagley and Stewart, and they have a young star player in cade. All they need is another cade level player and boom, that’s their whole core complete now all they’d need to to is learn how to win with that young squad. Not every young team is like the hawks and Knicks of last year. It takes time it’s a process bro. Now if you said like “imagine being a magic fan”. I would kinda feel that lol but pistons legit have a few solid peices and a franchise player already to start their rebuild

Ben Simmons should’ve gotten it.

@@kovy689 he will win it next year

I agree he definitely deserved it

All raptors fans hated when they drafted him. I'm starting to really dislike your fanbase. You are so defensive about your team and if you don't win every game or award than "the NBA is biased against you"

@@mcrinney6659 no one cares sadly

I just love his personality.. this brought me in tears 😭😭

masai ujiri still one of the best when it comes to getting hidden gems 💯

@@leegavino1534 not really true, but hat would be the Golden State Warriors by faaaarrrr

In Masai we trust!

@@MrGoddlie lol

They probably would have won game 3 if he had been healthy and playing. Even hurt he was picking up rebounds that the Raptors seemed to be giving up in the first three games.

@@normdeplume3966 yeah ikr it'd probably be 2-2 and we'd have a chance to win the series but what's done is done, next year we'll be better

Series ain't over yet

Embiid was trying to injured 4 raptors in game 1

It ain’t over yet boys.

😂😂😂

we gotta figure out a nick name for scottie

@@kodyscot9360 Barney but nah doesn't sound right.

@@JON3SHG hell to da naw

He doesn't need a nickname, he's just Scottie!

Scotiabank Scottie

When a rookie is on a competitive team then normally he’s not the best player on the team.

I'm not going to call you a name but I'm tired of you finger pointers. Typically, the best rookies go to the worst franchises because the worst team gets the top pick.,,,that's how the draft works. How about typing a solution instead of this BS you typed. Geez.

You think Cade had little to no pressure when he’s getting handed the keys to a dumpster fire of a franchise and expected to turn it around? Seems to me there’s no pressure for Mobley and Scottie when they each have 4-5 All Star caliber players on the court with them to do most of the heavy lifting.

Raps so competitive they about to get swept first round and be sitting on the couch 🤣🤣

Mobley should have won it period. He literally averaged a double double and without him cavs struggled

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Trashhhhh lmao

I just love Chuck

😂😂😂😂

Kenny: Oh, my bad.

Well put. Of course for a team like the Raptors, it becomes an award to the organization.

Yeah cuz Suggs.... Idk man.

i was always high on scottie, i thought he would be the steal of the draft and that he will be better than kuminga, and i think he ended up in the perfect situation in toronto where he is the perfect fit, i thought it was a bit shocking that toronto passed up on suggs but i saw it, however suggs is in a horrible situation and i think if suggs was drafted to toronto, he could be on the same level as scottie

What's wrong with the Raptors?

Honestly, as Raptors fan both were rookies of the year in my eyes.

@@duck1889 i honestly was thinking they should just share it this year (obviously they don't anymore) , and I'm a raps fan too.But Scottie deserved it for sure

Same. Would've been happy with either.

His so wholesome lol

hence Ernie, "let's move on"....lol smdh!

Yeah but think of how many Laker games we got to see! SMH... Instead of the NBA giving Detroit, Toronto, Cleveland , a little more play to show the future of the league, American Sports media was more interested in showing us the past stars on the Lakers..

They need eyeballs to keep raking in the ad dollars, which is why they didn't feature these teams. They have a business to run, so don't forget that plays a pivotal role in which teams get featured.

Didn't Mobley average 18,9, 2 steals and blocks a game when Allen was injured. You can't expect a rookie to completely anchor the post for a team.

@@GameChanger-xi4iy Don't think that number is accurate. Plus Scottie Barnes won rookie of the month during the period Allen was injured so would have to think at minimum, the personal numbers are comparable even if we are to believe your number. Barnes did have some spectacular games during that period himself and dude literally played all 5 positions on the court and did whatever the team needed. And normally, you'd be right on expectation of a rookie but the problem is when that was one of the major selling point of Mobley being ROY. His case starts to break down when you take into account their team record really faltered with Allen's injury. IMO Mobley's impact on the team's winning was overstated while Allen's was understated at the beginning and more people realized that once Allen went down.