Okay okay. Even I can't be that mad at Neil for this. A very rare win. NOW FUCKING TRADE CJ AND PUT NORM AT THE 2.
Wouldn’t really have to be a blowup. You could get Simmons and much more from Philly for Dame. CJ/Norm/RoCo/Simmons/Nurk is a good team
If Philly won't take a reasonable deal for CJ because they're trying to blow up our team and take our best player ever from us... there are a ton of deals out there for Dame that will bring us back just as much value as Simmons. We wouldn't have to blow it up, you're right, but I hope we would.
Yes, indeed. Add Thybulle as our sixth man, with Simons and Little (hopefully) contributing down the road with the draft picks we'd get from the 76ers... I would be excited for the future of that team. Younger, bigger, and much better defensively (even if we are missing out on the Dame awesomeness).
Credit where credit is due. As others have pointed out, this move alone doesn't make us serious contenders - but it is certainly a positive move. Olshey got this one right.
You have to think that nothing else could really start to happen until this happened. Blazers at least know they have what they had to end last season.
I really hope the deal is frontloaded with declining salaries years after years 20-19-18-17-16 would be fantastic.
Trent Jr off to a rough start avg a bit less than 14 PPG and shooting poorly at 37% and 35% from 3 in 31 MPG, Powell avg 14 PPG in 5 less minutes and shooting 45% and 41% from 3
Awesome. And not to take anything away from Trent. Powell is more of a pro. Because he's been a pro longer, and we simply need that more than an up and comer like Trent.
Agreed, we may not. But by then Dame will be gone and having Trent would only help get us worse draft picks. With which we could get a much better player. The timing of this trade could wind up helping both teams win.
Man, what a terrible, flexibility-killing deal. Can't believe Neil hamstring this franchise like this. So glad we've got sell-low Joe around to help us out of this miserable decision. /s