When Was The Last "Significant" Trade The Blazers Have Made?

(My mind is still numb from last night's loss)

Seriously, barring draft-day trades, when was it? The Z-Bo trade? (or was that on draft day?)

 

Camby for Blake/Outlaw.

 

We've drafted well and have had good success with building a team from the ground up. There hasn't been much of a reason to trade for core guys. After Whitsitt, it was more about trading AWAY the malignant tumors than bringing in talent.

 

Camby for Blanky and Chucklaw.


Depending on what they end up doing with it, it could be Bayless for NO 1st

 

ZBo was draft day. I agree the Camby for Blake/Outlaw was significant, but depends on your definition of significant.

 

Besides the Roy/Aldridge draft I'm not so sure about our "draft success".

 

With this ownership and front office, I think any trade is significant.

 

I agree whole heartedly with you. batum would be another guy that should be considered a success. maybe to a much lesser extent, Rudy. The misses are much more than the hits though.

Roy
Aldridge
Batum

Rudy
Bayless

Sergio
Greg
Claver
Freeland
Koponen

 

Blake/Outlaw for Camby
Wallace for SAR/Ratliff
Rider/Jackson for Steve Smith
Cato/Etc for Pippen
Strickland for Wallace

 

No draft is perfect, but Nico, Rudy, Dante and Patty were decent pickups from the draft. Babbitt, Williams and Johnson are incompletes. When GO is healthy, he earns his draft slot. I think Bayless was a good draft pick. Our last real blown pick was Martell (go ahead and flame away about Durant).

 

I would define "significant" as getting a quality starter out of a deal.

 

Incompletes is a very diplomatic way of putting it. There have been many years now of the Blazers passing up guys who are very productive in their first year only to take some guy who never plays. I sure hope some of them work out. Hell out of all of our draft picks since Roy/Aldridge, the most productive have been Pendergraph and Cunningham, both 2nd rounders. Considering how many 1st rounders we had, that is pretty bad.

 

Serious, maxie? So a good bench player doesn't count? No team wins with just 5 quality players.

Allow me to offer my own definition: Significant means landing a player who is part of the team's regular rotation. This may be direct (e.g. Camby) or indirect (getting a draft pick and the pick becomes or is dealt for a rotation player).

 

What were the Blazers thinking with Babbit?

 

Hard to say.

 

I've heard his nickname at the practice facility is "Jermaine" because he dominates practices but doesn't sniff the floor.

Where he was selected, Babbitt was considered a solid pick if not a bargain.

I'm giving him a little more time than just under half a season to call him a bust.

 

I trust you are forgetting Nic?

Go Blazers

 

Exactly. Look at what Mills is contributing this season compared to what he did a year ago. Nate doesn't play rookies much, so it's not surprising that Babbitt hasn't "sniffed the floor". That doesn't mean that a year from now he won't be a regular part of the rotation.

 

Man that is crazy though. This team isn't good enough to do that IMO. Mathews ends up playing backup minutes at the 3 and we can't get a real 3 with size minutes? That makes no sense to me unless Nate just wanted to go small.

 

We've made no positive trades since Whitsitt was here. We have made some significantly bad trades since.