Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free agent."

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  1. magnifier661

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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    This is a great post! Repp'd
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    Hakeem Olajuwon was once rumored to want to come to Portland to play with Clyde. Unfortunately, a couple years later, the course reversed and Drexler went to Houston instead.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    Dude, we did get Hedo to come here.

    Oh, wait.....

    In this case, disaster averted.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    It doesn't seem like it to me either. Hence, the refrain that we are in Mediocreville. If we don't, through some miracle, get a high lotto pick next year, we have to acquire fire-sale assets and try to trade up.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    someone please explain to me which "big time" free agent you would consider that we missed out on this year? everyone knew where Dwight and CP3 were going. so who did we "miss out on?" we weren't going after igoudala or monta ellis or any of them. stupid article
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    Thank God (not GOD) someone gets it.

    The Jayne article pointed out that we hadn't gotten out of the first round and that we hadn't attracted a "Marquee" FA in 13 years, but he somehow couldn't figure out that these concepts were related.

     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    BfW hit the nail on the head. One name: Roy Hibbert

    Pretty sure he's "Marquee". Just ask the Heat/Knicks
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    But, but, but he's not here "says the doomsdayers"
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    If the Pacers wouldn't have matched people would have said that was proof that we overpaid to get him.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    I wouldn't care. We'd be dominating the league!
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    Technically we didn't sign him. And thus the Pacers didn't have to match us.

    Would have been sweet to get him though.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    "But we used up all of our cap room to overpay a player nobody else wanted! :MARIS61:"

    Come on Mags, you need to pay attention in how the doom and gloomers think,
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    LMAO!!!!!!
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    All conjecture since PA has never seriously pursued a marquee player.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    And you don't think that would have been Roy/GO/LA? We had it set up perfectly, and our knees crumbled.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    How did we get all those players from 1999 - 2001?
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    SPAM!
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    The current CBA is set up to protect small market teams by letting them pay their star players more than other teams in free agency.

    Yet the same people whining about never getting a quality FA want to run LMA out of town for some odd reason.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    As I said earlier, luck also plays a huge factor. SAS has been lucky that their big three has mostly avoided it, the Blazers unlucky.
     
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    Re: Bitter Truth: "Portland will never, ever, ever be able to sign a marquee free age

    I don't know about unlucky. More like stupidity. Drafting damaged goods with top 10 picks twice.
     
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