On a scale of 1 to 10, how pissed will you be when KP doesn't make a trade?

Let's be honest. This is not an "if" question, because we all know the Blazers aren't going to make a deal.

So, with 1 being "I'm actually stoked we didn't make a deal" and 10 being "I'm so pissed I'm literally going to throw KP off of the top deck of the Fremont Bridge and hope he bounces off the bottom deck on his way into the cold Willamette" where would you stand?

Personally, I'd be about a 6.5.

-Pop

 

5.

Only because I know he's got something better planned.

 

2. If he doesn't make a trade it is because the right one didn't come along. Making a trade just to make one is silly and can comprimise things like chemistry. Only thing I will be sad about is that when healthy we have 12 guys that deserve to play, and really only 9 spots.

And if we don't make a trade at the deadline, I fully expect some sort of trade/signing during the off-season, specifically a trade where we take back more salary and help clean up the roster.

 

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Because his track record is such that if he does not make a deal it is because there was no opportunity to make a deal that will help the Blazers, not in the next 2 weeks or 2 months, but over the long haul.

 

I'll be a bit disappointed if we don't make any moves, with RLEC or possible cap space, by the start of next season, but not until then.

 

That's all well and good but if we truly don't make a deal by the deadline, I think you'd have to say he's "hoping" for something better rather than "planning" for it. The only reason you don't make a deal is because you think that somehow you have a better chance at getting someone over the summer, even though you'll have minimal cap flexibility, less trade assets, and potentially far fewer willing partners.

-Pop

 

Or there was nothing out there that was worth it.

 

very strange scale but my best guess is about a 3. I won't be stoked that he didn't make a deal, but I'll be a little bummed that the right opportunity didn't arise. If a Wallace, Butler, or Prince is traded to another team for cap relief I'll probably be closer to an 8.

STOMP

 

Good point, and we'll probably never truly know the answer to this. But I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be some available deal that would improve our team with the Raef Lafrentz contract dangling out there.

-Pop

 

Totally agree w/ this.

 

10 being mad as hell. If might be the difference between making the playoffs or being in the lotto. and if we are the 8th seed its like the lotto playing LA. If we get a legit SF..we should at worse get the 7th spot

 

3 - because this team isn't good enough to win it all this year regardless of who we could REALISTICALLY get (read: no Kobe, LBJ, etc.) so if he doesn't make a move it's because there wasn't anything available that was better than what he has in mind in the big picture. Plus, given everything else (previous Pritchslaps, the Darius Drama, etc.) it's not like other teams are jumping up and down wanting to hand over stuff to push us over the hump.

 

Seriously, if I'm KP, I'm trying to figure out some way to get Tayshaun Prince by February 19. That dude is sick and would probably instantly make us the third best team in the West with a good chance at shocking the Lakers or Spurs in a playoff series.

-Pop

 

My initial reaction would be a 8+ but knowing his past track record I'd say about a 5 or so.

 

Probably about a 7, simply because I don't think we'll be able to do as much over the summer as people think, and RLEC will have gone to waste.

I personally think it has less to do with "nothing being available" and more to do with KP "not liking midseason trades," which I don't agree with. If the right trade comes along, you do it.

 

around 3 because in KP I trust

 

Whether or not they make a trade, this team is making the playoffs. If we do make a trade, it'll likely just improve our playoff seed, which will be no better than #3 or #4 even in the best of all scenarios. Even then, we don't win the West or god forbid the title this year.

What's going to be annoying as fuck is if a trade happens, you'll be making 101 threads pointing to the trade as THE reason we're in the playoffs - which won't be true.

 

So now you realized that Blazers will make the playoffs so you shifted your stance from "No playoffs is failure" to "No playoffs or 8th seed is failure". Looks like you are increasing your expectations.

 

I just pray to Lawd that he's MAN enough to keep his empty promise of not posting anymore for the rest of the season if we make the playoffs. That'll be a nice month or so of peace for us!

Everyone cross your fingers (not that we make the playoffs (that's a gimme) - that he'll man up to his word).

 

GREAT, great point! If a major piece is moved that the Blazers could use and we're not part of it then I completely agree with you.