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Bruce Arthur: Bryan Colangelo, whose contract isn't guaranteed past this season, on TSN1050: I'm not going to do anything [just] to salvage my scenario." Twitter @bruce_arthur

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Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo believes his team still has the horses to compete in the NBA on a nightly basis. Speaking with Eric Smith and Paul Jones on Sportsnet 590 The Fan prior to Sunday's loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, Colangelo said some of his team's losses were "mindnumbing" but that a trade wasn't the answer. "There's not a magical fix," Colangelo said. "For those that anticipate that, maybe, there's a magic trade to make, (it's) probably not the case and I'll say that because I don't believe at this stage it's a talent issue. "I believe it's the way we're coming together as a group. We're a young team, we're still finding our way, but I think right now more than anything it's a lack of attention to detail, lack of focus, lack of execution that's caused us to be in this situation. SportsNet

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo 

DeMar DeRozan, he mentioned that the team meeting was good, he was very positive about that…talked about defence. Bryan Colangelo: There's no doubt that the defence is what created a lot of our forward progress last year and it will create opportunities for us to get out and run offensively which is something we needed to do. But we're not moving the ball that much on offence; we're not running as much as we should. We do at times, and we look good and we score easy baskets. Unfortunately again, staying in that system, sometimes when a team scores against you, you drop your shoulders and you stop your forward progress. There's a lot of things that we need to be working on but it does begin with defence. But we've really got to improve on both sides of the ball right now. SportsNet

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, DeMar DeRozan 

On the sun-baked campus of UCLA, with the players and coaches wandering to the bus after a couple of hours of practice, Bryan Colangelo summed up the state of the Raptors with little equivocation. “This situation is, from all standards, unacceptable,” the team’s president and general manager said. “It’s disappointing, it’s embarrassing but this is where we find ourselves.” Toronto Star

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo 

Colangelo, who had long planned to join the team here at the end of a season-long road trip, was going to continue his fact-finding mission with a series of private sessions with some players and the coaching staff Saturday night. “There’s been a lot of dialogue, a lot of discussion,” he said. “It’s constant evaluation of what we’re doing and how we’re doing it and why we’re doing it.” Toronto Star

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo 

While the contract numbers came across as a shock when revealed Wednesday, Colangelo maintains that DeRozan’s value only would have gone up based on the market, particularly if he shows the improvement the team expects this season. “Clearly the downside of free agency and the unknown of free agency, despite it being restricted free agency, is that his value would have gone up even further. With all of the due-diligence that we did and with all of the information that I’m privy to, we feel that this is at or near where he would have been next year. The only downside of waiting would have been that someone (else) would have come in,” he said. Toronto Sun

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, DeMar DeRozan 

“There are roughly 10 teams, let’s say, that will have significant cap space, and would have been potential suitors for a dynamic wing player like DeMar DeRozan. By taking care of this now, we secured him at a number that we feel is the right value. Based on due diligence, based on where we see DeMar today and where we see him in the future, we feel like the value of the deal is an appropriate one and we acted on it.” Colangelo also valued DeRozan’s commitment to the franchise and to the city, his low-key lifestyle and the fact that he is only 23, yet already in his fourth NBA season. Toronto Sun

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, DeMar DeRozan 

“It’s been difficult,” said Colangelo in a wide-ranging interview on the eve of the Raptors’ 18th season in Toronto. “There’s been no instant gratification. We’ve chosen a path and stuck with it. That’s not my normal M.O. It’s not my cup of tea per se. But it was the right thing to do.” Colangelo had opportunities to pull a Brian Burke, although he wouldn’t call it that or explain exactly what those opportunities were. “We passed on multiple opportunities to bring in players via transactions that would have thwarted our efforts. At times, it was tempting. But we had to stick to the plan. There has had to be a patience and strategy to every decision we’ve made. “The deals we could have made were more of a tonic than a long-term solution.” Toronto Sun

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Adriana Galimberti: Lots of traffic outside the Raptors locker room tonight: Anthony Parker, agent Warren LeGarie & Bon Jovi leaving the LR with Bryan Colangelo Twitter @Gal_Adri

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, Anthony Parker, Warren LeGarie 

In an interview with QMI Agency last week, Nash confirmed he was on the verge of signing a deal with the Raptors. GM Bryan Colangelo reportedly offered the Victoria, B.C., product a three-year, $36-million contract -- close to $10 million more than he received from the Lakers. "I was very close, you know," Nash said. "Because it appeared that they were going to be an option long before free agency started. So I got my head around that and I was comfortable with that and happy with the opportunity to play in Toronto. But when this opportunity (with the Lakers) became a reality, I couldn't pass it up." Toronto Sun

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Nash heard and read the criticisms and it hurt. But he was eager on this day to make the point that he didn't use the Raptors in some diabolical way to garner a better deal in New York or L.A., and was sincerely excited about the prospect of playing on home soil. "It wasn't in any way like, 'Oh well, I gotta go to Toronto.' I was thrilled," Nash said. "Unfortunately it wasn't a team contending for a championship. But I love Toronto, it's home in many senses. And I think it's a first-class organization and a first-class city and I would have been extremely proud to play for them and represent the city, and play for those fans and hopefully help get that team into the playoffs." Toronto Sun

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Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo said at media day on Monday that he has spoken to DeRozan’s agent “multiple times over the past several weeks to start to establish a dialogue,” but a pre-Halloween extension is far from a given. “He is clearly a piece of this team that we see as a piece for the future. He’s made great strides in his first few years, and we’re anticipating he has a much higher ceiling to (reach),” Colangelo said. “He’s very young, only 23 years old now. We anticipate very bright things for him on the horizon.” Toronto Sun

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, DeMar DeRozan 

Colangelo said waiting wouldn’t be the worst move. “We’ve also agreed that should we not come to a conclusion with respect to an extension at this time, clearly it’s not the end of the world. We may have to grow together more before that deal is imminent.” Toronto Sun

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, DeMar DeRozan 

DeRozan said he plans to let his play do the talking if a deal isn’t reached this month. “I really don’t look at my whole contract situation. I look at every year like it’s a big year for me because I have to do 10 times more than I did the previous year,” he said. “I don’t look at it like contract or this and that, I look at it as just me being a player and trying to get better. “I leave (the talks) up to BC and my agent. I let my job speak for (itself) and at the end of the day we’ll see what happens.” Toronto Sun

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, DeMar DeRozan 

Ryan Wolstat: Colangelo not worried about contractual status. Intoned he would have either not drafted Valanciunas because of wait or traded him if he was Twitter @WolstatSun

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo 

“[Advanced statistical analysis] has definitely picked up tremendous momentum in the last decade as we have all looked to peel back another layer of the onion,” said Colangelo, the Raptors’ president and general manager, in an email interview. He added that he had a particular fondness for financial modelling and win projection. “Honestly, once Daryl Morey was hired as GM in Houston, everyone’s antennae were raised even higher and the use of analytics has become much more mainstream. “ … Blogs, chat rooms and message boards are literally buzzing on the topic and just about every NBA team has a dedicated analytics team looking for some sort of competitive advantage. Let me tell you that stat geeks are alive and well in our business.” National Post

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, Alex Rucker 

Raptors team president and general manager Bryan Colangelo feels the club will be more competitive than any time in recent memory and also says it has been tough to stay patient within the team’s blueprint and not make splashier moves being so close to getting over the hump. “There’s going to be a lot of competition across the board. It’s a young team, a developing team,” Colangelo told Michael Richards on his TSN radio showabout the team‘s prospects this season. “Maybe we failed this summer to make the sexy move but I tell you we have gone about this building it the right way, taking a patience approach which is not easy for me to do. I want to turn things around quickly sometimes … all of the time, but sometimes you really do have to wait. You have to do it the right way.” HoopsWorld

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo 

Remember those reports last spring that the Toronto Raptors were interested in bringing in Andre Iguodala or Rudy Gay? Raptors fans, desperate for something, salivated at the thought of landing either one of them at the time. On Tuesday, Raptors president and general manager, Bryan Colangelo, spoke on the Mike Richards Show on TSN 1050 Radio in Toronto, and explained that Iguodala was on the table but price was too steep. He wasn't kidding. From what I've been told by an NBA source, the Sixers were eyeing Toronto's eventual first-round pick this summer, Terrence Ross, along with an additional first-round pick, plus point guard Jose Calderon's expiring contract along with another roster player, believed to be forward Ed Davis. TSN

Denver Nuggets, Toronto Raptors, Andre Iguodala, Bryan Colangelo 

Look, it doesn’t really matter what Anselmi thinks of Bryan Colangelo and it’s folly to think just because the new guy got the titles full time that some kind of sweeping change is afoot. The season is upon us; it’s not time for any kind of change and none is coming. As far as I know – and this comes from a few months around the building and a couple of calls and e-mails yesterday – their working relationship is just fine; the guy at the top knows to leave Bryan and Ed Stefanski to do their jobs and there’s no reason to think that changes today. Toronto Star

Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo, Ed Stefanski 

After Bosh bolted for South Beach the team was force to rebuild and this summer marked the first time they have flirted with big name free agents. “We were in a situation the last two years where we were building to this point,” Colangelo admitted this week. “This summer we wanted to accelerate forward. I think the combined moves of the addition of the two draft picks, the addition of a key free agent, the acquisition of Kyle (Lowry), this is all kind of that next step in the evolution of our team.” HoopsAddict.com

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