The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

I've said it once, I will say it again. Move the blazers to Vegas.

 

Bite your tongue.

 

I love you. But fuck you....haha

 

it is hot here. blazing hot. works perfect.

 

Players make such horrible decisions...

- CP3 chose to play with Harden and coach Pringles instead of joining the best coach ever and the real MVP of the league.

- Crapelo choosing to play with Kobe -2.0, a guy who dreams about going to the Lakers next year and a team that played broken anti-basketball in the playoffs.

- Irving choosing to leave the best player of this generation to play with Gordon Hayward.


Fuck it, we're probably better off with Von and Aminu playing defense at the 4 anyway. Our starting 5 is good enough offensively, i only wanted it because CJ and Dame wanted it..

 

Me too!

 

Blame Olshey though.

 

Yeah, fuck him.

 

I can understand both Melo and Irving. Melo gets to play with two of the most talented players he's ever had in his team and will be sure of playoffs basketball for the first time in ages. Westbrook and George are both great players.

Irving probably suspects LeBron will leave soon and doesn't want to stick around in what will become a pretty terrible team with no cap flexibility. Boston is also a good destination and they got young upcoming players in Brown and Tatum plus another future high pick to complete the team. Hayward, Horford and Irving is a good core and all of them will stay there for a considerable future.

Paul going to Houston was odd. They gutted their team to make that trade and banked on getting Melo too and are now left with a pretty average core outside Paul and Harden.

 

-Melo playing with another star forward in a broken system? i think I've seen that movie before and it wasn't pretty. Melo was at his best in NY when he was surrounded with great shooters and a fast style of play.

-Irving could demand a trade next offseason, he had a theoretical chance of winning a championship again this season. Injuries happen. I can understand why he did it, i just don't understand the timing.

 

*It would have been a fun experiment, but Sports is littered with rejected deals that turned out to be blessings for the rejected parties. Chemistry matters as evident by this most recent Warrior dynasty, and Melo doesn't have a great track record there.
*It may not have worked out for the Blazers, but it does make the NBA product better. OKC can at least compete with the Warriors now, maybe push to 6 games.
*I like it for OKC. They've totally mortgaged their future acquiring one year rentals, and there's going to be nothing in the cupboards this time next year. But they've bettered their odds and are only a Curry or Durant injury from having a real shot at the title. If the stars jettison, they'll likely be lucky to win 20 games next year, and be all the more happy for it as they start the process all over again with a top 4 pick. It's cyclical for small town teams and Presti's got it mastered.
*I like it the Knick too. Honestly, I'd rather have Kanter and McDermott than any combination of Turner, Harkless, Meyers, or whoever else outside our top 3. I'm probably in the minority but I still value skilled big men over specialized wings.

 

Bump

 

Don't think it makes OKC much better, if at all.

Kanter is an awful defender and is overrated and they don't need him because Porzingas and Hernangomez is their future frontcourt. They would've picked Harkless over what they got, because of other reasons including the fact that they could pencil him in at SF and he would fit well with what they got.

 

Hopefully NYK is open to the idea of Davis and a couple future 2nds for Lee. Lee would be perfect here. Neil needs to try to land him with our TPE.

 

I think if Lebron leaves he should go to BOS next year with Kyrie on the way out.

Back to crazy hypotheticals:

Lebron opt-in-and-traded (CP3 style) to BOS.

BOS Gets: Lebron, A.Davis
Random Team Gets: Kyrie
NOP Gets: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, LAL/SAC 1st (BOS), other stuff from BOS
CLE Gets: Stuff from the team that gets Kyrie.

Either that, or Lebron should try find his way to another eastern team by opting in to get traded. WAS for Otto Porter would be a good idea. To Milwaukee would be interesting as well.

 

A- I don't care. B- Read my post again. Dame can't make up Melo's mind for him and Melo clearly was pretty close minded about where he wanted to play. Dame could have gotten on his knees like a btich and begged and it wouldn't have mattered.