I'm AM embarrassed, but probably more sleepy. The Blazers were boring before Ant went off. Now, they're boring again. Hopefully, they'll start Ant and Johnson, to develop them and Tank into some sort of decent pick.
Personally, I never cared much for Powell, and RoCo was better in Houston, a disappointment here. I guess that is why I am not so upset. Cronin has his eyes on 2023, I think this is a set-up move. Lets face it, 2022 is over anyway.
I guess it's possible that everyone in this forum, everyone on Twitter, everyone on Reddit, and pretty much every human being who follows the NBA overestimated Powell and Covington's actual trade value, and this is actually a good outcome. But I doubt it.
first off, for those saying this is clearing space to re-sign Ant and Nurkic, keep in mind that with Winslow, Johnson, and Bledsoes guarantee, Portland is assuming 10.5M in salary next season. Powell's salary next season is 16.8M. So this only clears 6.3M in salary. Think the Blazers can re-sign both Ant and Nurk for 6.3M? ************************************************** trying to find a silver lining: if Portland can't find another trade for Bledsoe they could waive him right after the deadline. They SHOULD waive him right after the deadline. This will help the tank, and that's the only bright spot right now
they traded two guys who had good value as starters for scraps and salary dump which I assume will be used to resign Nurk and Ant. not even getting one 1st round pick back is gut wrenching. I also believe Billups had some say in this, still just sick to my stomach on this trade.
Sure until the deadline you can't for sure say that this trade is the most shitty trade ever but once that deadline passes on Thursday at noon we will not be able to trade Bledsoe's contract without guaranteeing it. So if we do move some of these pieces in a deal that gets us much bigger and better things than Norm and RoCo by Thursday then yeah there will have been a method to this very obvious madness, after that it's just madness.
what about roco contract (13,000,000) and cj mccollum possibly getting traded that should be enough to re-sign nurk & ant we lost 30,000,000 and got 10,000,000 in salary... thats 20,000,000 down
reading clippers forums they are shocked our gm would be the stupid and are really happy. saying we should of kept neil. Being a Blazer fan is horrible guys.
Cronin being shit has nothing to do with the fact that it was far past time to fire Neil. Just because Joe seems to have put the car in reverse and Neil left it in neutral for the past five seasons doesn't mean either one of them should have this job. (Again I am going to withhold complete judgment on Joe until the deadline passes)
So Joe asked Jody, do I have a shot as keeping this position long term. Jody's response get us under the cap and look at building for the future. Oh, and, makes something happen now.
