Ranking all 7 Raptors shooting guards from "prolific" to "disaster"

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Garrett Temple, Toronto Raptors
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The Toronto Raptors do not have a balanced roster.

Out of 18 players under contract for next season, the Raptors have exactly 0 small forwards. They have two power forwards in Scottie Barnes and rookie Jonathan Mogbo, six bigs, and a trio of point guards.

That leaves a whopping seven players who are naturally shooting guards, including Top 20 picks from each of the past three seasons. How will the coaching staff sort through who deserves to play, and in what combinations?

Part of that challenge is simply ranking each player against one another. Who is the best combination of talent, production and skillset? Let's go through all seven and see who deserves playing time and who is playing so poorly they should be ejected from the rotation entirely.

No. 7: Ochai Agbaji

Ochai Agbaji was a lottery pick out of Kansas as recently as two years ago, but his career has failed to get off of the launching pad and he is in very real danger of having his fourth-year team option declined by the Raptors.

After making a huge leap in shooting accuracy as a senior, Agbaji fell back to earth once he entered the NBA, shooting just 35.5 percent as a rookie in Utah and a frigid 29.4 percent from deep last season, including just 21.7 percent once arriving in Toronto. He's a below-average defender, an inaccurate shooter (his free-throw percentage was just 66.1 percent last year as well) and doesn't offer much in terms of shot creation.

There is still hope for Agbaji to reclaim his career, but he doesn't deserve a single minute of playing time right now unless he shows a real step forward in training camp, the preseason and with the 905 in the G League.