Lot of maturity and high IQ in these interviews....really pumped to cheer for this team. I'm all in this season! Nance is going to fit great around Norm and CJ and Dame...Go Blazers!
Rogers has a rep of helping out bigs. He was Zubac’ guy in LA for example. That was a great hire in regards to Nurk
Nurk believes Billups will make things simpler to understand. In other words, Terry Stotts apparently was too advanced for Nurk to comprehend... - What he is saying about Billups now sounds exactly like what he was saying about Terry after getting out of the clutches of Malone in Denver. Maybe Billups will be able to get to this guy and make him see himself as accountable... I am officially in the "show me, consistently" mode with him at this point.
Dame's response to the roster makes it sound like Neil has convinced him he's going to make changes during the reason.
That's what I got out of it as well. Neil convinced Dame to wait. Me thinks Norm will be dangled during the reason. Does not sound like Dame wants CJ traded. "We weren't going to make a change for the sake of making a change." Combined with his cryptic IG post about not going over his circle. I just don't think Dame wants CJ traded unless it's like a no-brainer trade for an established superstar. Simmons isn't that. Neither is Siakam...
after sleuthing through Dame's social all year, I really feel like that post wasn't blazer related. CJ isn't getting traded, but I don't it's because of Dame stopping it. It's because Neil wants to see what Chauncey can do with him. Going back to that rumor I found on the Hawks board about Norm/Cov for Simmons coming once Powell can be traded....
Dame alluding to having had relationship issues. Wasn't there someone that mentioned infidelity when it came to Dame?
Damn, I don't ever want to lose Dame. If you gave me the option of going: Next 8 years without Dame, but we win a title in one of those years. Next 8 years with Dame, no title, but he retires here. I think I'd pick the latter.
