Toronto Dinos

End of an Era and Dawn of a New Begining

Season 10 for the Roswell Dinos

Overview: It was the end of basketball in Roswell. New Ownership in James Borbath took over the franchise and huge changes happened in ever aspect of this organization. A new team name and a new city will be the home for this franchise. Walt Jackson era was born. While many of the old personally were cut lose. Christbal Dasher is on of the few things that stayed and he had another consistant and brilliant season to add to his WBA career leading the team in scoring and rebounding. The team improved it's record by 8 wins in the regular season but still were not good enough to be a playoff team. However with the young core of talent the team has assembled it may lead to great things for this franchise and it's future. Walt Jackson,Quintal Pitt,Felipe Juarez, Sam Hickerson and Harry Krammer our part of a young core of talent for this club for years to come if all works out. Dinos finshed 5th in the Pacfic Division improving from last the year before. The fact of the teams leaving lead to a below .500 record at home. While they had a .500 record verus the eastern conference. A record of 6-18 in their divison can be looked at as the reason they were not a playoff team. But late season wins over Oregon and two wins over Anndorra showed that the Dinos may be much better overall and in the divison. If they do indeed stay in the Divison and Conference. Next season Toronto, Canada will be the place the Dinos will call home and it is not clear if they would remain in the same Divison. In Total the team made 6 trades and acquired 2 players off waviers which gave the team a complete face lift as far as on the court. Jack Armstrong had a solid first year as coach and will be back next season despite a losing record. This season would have to be considered a huge step in turning around the fortune of this franchise. Time will tell if it does.

Draft Choices

#1 Roswell Walt Jackson

#33 Roswell King Paras

#38 Roswell Sam Hickerson

#53 Roswell Bruce York

Season Breakdown

Roswell 33-47 5th in Pacfic Divison

Divison: 6-16 Conference: 19-33

Montana: 2- 2

Andorra: 2- 2

Nebraska: 0- 4

California: 1- 3

Colorado: 0- 4

Oregon: 1- 3

Texas: 1- 3

Cincinnati: 4- 0

Cancun: 0- 4

Omaha: 2- 2

Salt Lake: 2- 2

Miami: 2- 2

Capetown: 2- 2

Non-Conference: 14-14

Rochester: 2- 0

Boston: 2- 0

Gabon: 2- 0

London: 1- 1

Sacramento: 1- 1

Budapest: 0- 2

Albacete: 0- 2

Baltimore: 1- 1

Brooklyn: 1- 1

New York: 1- 1

Washington: 1- 1

Carolina: 2- 0

Birmingham: 0- 2

Alaska: 0- 2

Trades:

1.Sacramento gets: Roswell's S11 and S12 2nds

Roswell gets: Picks #33 & #38

2.Roswell Receives: Josiah Gillies

Capetown Receives: Roswell Season 14 2nd Round Pick

3.Nebraska gets: $2.25 mill in Season 10, $0.75 mill in Season 11 & NY S12 2nd

Roswell gets: Quintin Pitt, Kris Calhoun, Ajani Valentine & Alaska S11 1st

4.Omaha gets: Cullen Phillips, Alaska 11th season 1st, and Roswell 12th season 2nd

Roswell gets: Harry Kramer and Andorra 11th season 1st

5.Roswell Gets: PG Pat McDaniel

Oregon Gets: PF Sky Harrington & ROS S15 2nd

6.Boston gets: Ajani Valentine

Roswell gets: Felipe Juarez & Boston's S11 2nd Rd pick

Hi's and Lows of the year

Hi's

>Claim Buck Jones off waviers

>Walt Jackson and Sam Hickerson Rookie All Star Team Western Conference

>Walt Jackson named Rookie of the year.

Lo's

>Wesley Phillips failure to produce despite huge contract

>Missed the playoffs

>Terrible Divison record

Outlook for future:

With a possible move to the eastern conference and a new city to call home things for this franchise would seem to be on the rise. Many questions about the upcoming off-season on weather the team will be able to keep both Buck Jones and Christbal Dasher. But the teams young core should remain intact and this team could challenge for the playoffs as soon as next season.

Toronto Dinos Season 11- Not Ready For PrimeTime

Overview

This was a huge year as the franchise began in it's new home, new divison and new conference. The season started with a lot of the media picking the Dinos to be a force in the east but they were not quite at that level. Led by season 10 rookie of the year Walt Jackson the team had made a major offseason move acquiring Justin Kruger a steady point guard as said by most WBA scouts along with scoring shooting gaurd Emitt Yee. By seasons end nethier would be with the team. Kruger despite is seven year contract was bought out thats how bad he was for Toronto while Yee would get injured before the first game of the season and never devloped the chemistry with Walt Jackson. So he was dealt in a three way deal to Alaska. Eventually Toronto would end up with Rice and Wu Dian Fan from alaska and acquire Remi Jeay and Bill Blackstone from Budapeast. Rice was injured in his first game with the team so is impact is unclear as far as the future goes. But Jeay and Blackstone were solid contributers to a playoff push that lasted till the seasons final day. But beating the eventual eastern conference champion Paris was to much to ask from a young dino team despite the fact they had beat them once earlier in the season. The Dinos would end up 37-44 a 4 win improvment from last year but tied with boston for 8th in the east and thanks to the fact Boston swept the season series the moved on to the playoffs and the Dinos were on the outside looking in. Simieon Hill should also be mentioned the dinos paid 8.4 Million to bring him in as a free agent to replace the rebounding lost by dealing Christbal Dasher to Arkansas. Well he did that and how if this kid devlops an offensive game to go along with his defence he will be a dominante force. The deal was for 7 years. Walt Jackson also inked an extentsion heading into the season for 8.99 million for the max allowed 5 years. It was clear that the Dinos were very close to being a playoff team.

Team Leaders For Season 11

Points: Walt Jackson 1424

Rebounds: Simeon Hill 811

Assists: Remi Jeay 594

Minutes: Remi Jeay 3029

FGM: Bill Blackstone 559

FGA Walt Jackson 1272

FTM Isaac Rice 199

FTA Isaac Rice 306

Blocks Simeon Hill 151

Steals Remi Jeay 128

FG% Craig King 64.6%

FT% Remi Jeay 84.4%

3FG% Walt Jackson 40.6%

*** All are Toronto Dino ALL-TIME and Season Records

Team Stats in Season 11

FG% FT% 3P% REB A PF BLK TO STL PTS

Toronto 41.9 75.4 30.4 43.3 25.9 16.8 7.5 10.7 10.5 96.5

Opposition 45.4 75.5 27.0 45.2 27.9 17.4 8.3 11.0 10.3 99.4

Trades:

#1 Toronto Gets:

Justin Kruger & Emitt Yee

Arkansas Gets:

Quintall Pitt, Christbal Dasher & Toronto's First Round pick in Season 12

#2Toronto Dinos get:

Pick #9

Arkansas Gets:

Buck Jones

#3Arkansas receives:

Torontos season 16 2nd round pick

Toronto receives:

Quade Nash

#4Toronto gets: Paul Wilson Russ Chase Albacete S12 1st

Arkansas gets: Jack Spiegel Harry Applegate Jo Jones

Alaska gets: Boom-Boom Casey Harry Kramer

#5Toronto Gets:

Remi Jeay, Bill Blackstone & $2.5 mil in Season 11

Budapest gets:

Feliepe Juarez, Paul Wilson & $1.00 in Season 12

#6Toronto gets:

Brooklyns 1st rd picks in season 12 and 13

Brooklyns 2nd and Sacramentos 2nd in 12

Brooklyn Gets:

Toronto 1st Rd picks in 14 and 16

.25 mil in season

#7Toronto Gets:

Issiac Rice, Wu Dian- Fan, Charlottes 1st in 12 & Frankfurt 2nd in 13

Alaska Gets:

Emmitt Yee, Brooklyn 1st in 12, Toronto 1st in 13, Sacramento 2nd in 12 &

Brooklyn 2nd in 12

Draft Picks:

#9 Toronto -Geoffrey Caldwell PG/SG

#23 Toronto -Hans Bryson C

#33 Toronto -Pete Boyer SG/SF

Outlook:

Despite many thinking that the Dinos would break out this season it was only a minor improvement. It looks as if the wba experts might have jumped the gun but heading into next season with its core players intacted it should be the year that this franchise finally gets back to the post season. Walt Jackson had a solid softmore season and although not devlopong as fast as some may have expected he is now with out question considered one of the leagues young stars. He will lead the charge in bringing this team back to respectabilty. In fact as far as respect I think they may have that around the league already. Hill could also have a breakout year next season giving the Dinos a solid post presentce. Remi Jeay has come back to the WBA with a chip on his shoulder and some excellent skills to back it up. Thinks remain up beat for this team's future success.