After watching this video I'm sold the chemistry will be great. http://www.nba.com/blazers/video/2010/02/16/camby021610m4v-1233932/index.html
That is like asking certain people if they are complete morons. Of course they won't apologize. Most 12 year old will not. KP just traded two players. One who Brandon loves and one who Nate loves. And he traded them both for a part time rental. Someone who will play 20 games for us. What does that say about KP? It tells me he can be both patient and decisive. What ever is best for the long term success of the team. He has a plan, and he is not dumb enough like so many fans to deviate to far from that plan. Doesn't mean he always right, but it does give me confidence that he won't do anything that is really stupid.
Wow! He got a 2-month rental who doesn't want to be here for 2 of our most established players! By 2030, Pritchard will have become a man. He'll have advanced to the level of trading last year's starter for a THREE-month rental. This is his first trade not involving picks, but it still occurred only because Paul Allen's $3M was thrown in, as it is in every Pritchard trade, or no trade happens. As the Clippers said, the bribe was the only reason they picked the Blazers offer over the others. I can see why he picked Outlaw and Blake to trade. By Pritchard standards, they're old men, and his mission in life is to clear out age for rookies. When Camby leaves in May, Pritchard can sign another rookie. Pritchard, here is your assignment by the time you're 80 years old: Trade a real player (a starter, and not an expiring contract, or a pick, or someone who argued with the coach) for a real player. Trade value for value, without trying so hard to use gimmicks (like insurance paying the player's salary). Do it every year. And do it without bribing the other team with $3M. Just be a normal GM who continuously makes moves to improve his team at any time of the year.
I have to admit, KP surprised me. That said, I wonder if he pulls the trigger if he had known Roy was thinking of taking the rest of the season off.
You do realize that Juwan is only 37 and Camby turns 36 next month? If Juwan is ancient, then so is Camby, and fuck, so am I!
What's your point? Most trades occur because the other team is bribed to make it. (i.e salarly cap space is a bribe, ending contracts are a bribe, draft picks are a bribe) As far as a Vet not wanting to up root his family in the middle of a season and move to a colder/rainy climate..........is this a news flash. So are you saying never trade for a vet? Besides the interview I saw with Camby on the Clipper network, he was not too unhappy about going to the Blazers. He and his teammates (and their few fans) were pissed that the organization gave him up for "cash". It was disrespectful.
I'm 36 too, so I guess we're all ancient. Well, in NBA terms. (In the context of, say, "reporters for 60 Minutes", we're somewhere between blastocyst and fetus, though.) Yeah, Camby is as old as fuck too. But I'd rather rely on two codgers than one. The odds are against them both breaking their hips at the same time.
lol. Why does Anderson Silva fight like a pussy, using gimmicky muay thai clinches to pummel his opponents with knees, when most MMA fighter rely on traditional punches and kicks? The guy is a total fucking douche. Why did Shaq rely on gimmicky dunks so much all those years, when he could've taken 15 foot jump shots like most NBA players do to score. Fucking pussy. Only pussies like KP use their inherent advantages in competition instead of lowering themselves to the playing field of the less advantaged. I sure wish our GM did that. We'd have a worse team, but KP would be a real man.
Just a tip: it's generally better writing style to put something as briefly as possible, rather than as verbosely, while communicating all of the same ideas. Here's a more succinct version of your post: "I don't care about winning, I care about trades! Make lots of trades. Do it wildly, every single season, which no GM in the past 30 years has done! And, ideally, make your trades weaker by not involving money. We want to give up more talent in deals, not less."
It's very rare to trade "good player for good player" anymore. I read another article about that yesterday (maybe Simmons? Maybe the Trade Chat?) saying that the Jefferson-for-Deng talks were so refreshing just b/c NO ONE made "good player for good player" trades anymore. So I don't blame KP for that. The culture of the league is such that there are lots of teams that are looking for wins, lots of teams looking for profit, and lots of teams looking to exploit the other two categories. I don't feel that our team has embraced that culture in the past, with the amount of expiring contracts we let go for nothing (not just KP's fault--we've let Shareef, RLEC, Magloire, et. al. go), and the need to hire Tom Penn to get some insight into CBA intricacies. I'm glad he's using one of Uncle Paul's advantages to make the team better. I wish it would've happened sooner, but oh well. I'm not patient anyway.
Well, only you wussies who talked shit about him for the last few months need to apologize. The rest of us do not.
Mrs. Blake wants the apology, actually: I'll try! =) it's hard when they've traded us while I'm pregnant twice! Ripped my heart out twice now! Haha. =( -Twitter
So HCP, what was the espn insider Hollinger grade for the blazers? Did he mention anything about KP making a gutsy move?
