No Victor Claver Next Year

Victor Claver - "Me playing in Portland next year? I don't think so."
Victor Claver - "I just resigned with Valencia."

http://www.tubasket.com/noticiaDeta...cambiar/cosas/irse/trail/blazers/verano/18698

in spanish, via hoopshype

http://hoopshype.com/rumors.htm

 

There goes the season

 

You know, it's funny how people lament the fact that we passed on Blair, but I think KP equally fucked up by not drafting Casspi. Think if we had taken Blair and Casspi.

 

Kpee has failed again. What a joke.

 

All joking aside, I think Pritchard was looking for a talent that didn't want to come over this season. We already had too many guys on the roster, AND Freeland/Koponen waiting in the wings. Even still, as much as I like Pendergraph and Cunningham, I'd rather have Casspi and Blair.

 

With this season playing out the way it has, who knows what would have happened. I like Cunningham's game though, so I don't know. I haven't watched much of Casspi.

 

You hit and miss, He sure hit on Batum, maybe Claver develops, lets not give up on him just yet

 

Claver is better than casspee, sorry it's the truth.

Blair is good though, bitchard blew it there.

 

Cunningham is just as good as Blair, i think, now we could of had Blair and Cunningham

 

You know KP can draft folks, but he can't make them play here. This really isn't on him.

 

Have you watched Claver some DD? I haven't really seen anything from him...

Oh, I agree that Batum was a homerun.

 

But the truth is, if he was good, he would be here next year, but really the team has no where to play him at this moment

 

So that's the question though, would you rather have Claver overseas or Casspi on our current roster?

In fairness, there was no way to predict what would happen to the team this season with all the injuries. If Rudy, Outlaw, and Batum hadn't gone down, I'm sure we probably wouldn't have seen Pendergraph, Cunningham, or really much of Howard. As it stands though, I think we've seen how valuable Batum is, how inconsistent Rudy is, and Outlaw is gone.

 

I have almost no doubt that Claver will never don a Blazers uniform.

 

Really? Did Sabonis come right over after we drafted him? Was he good?

Sometimes players just don't want to come over here.

 

Casspi, easily. He's good.

 

Wasted pick then. I'd rather trade the pick than waste it on a guy who will never actually play in the NBA. Of course, I guess it's kind of like investing in the stock market long term. He might pan out one day and come over when he's 28 or 29 and be a star... who knows.

 

What i was getting at was, with RUDY we sent over the whole calvary, to convince him to come, probably made some promises, pulled some strings, etc. KP would have done the same thing with Claver if he believed that much in him