This take sounds like It's more about cleaning up the mess Olshey has made in the last few years. I can't say i disagree with it. Time will tell.
That could be because not one person on this board actually is a GM of a NBA team and most only have a very vague idea about what they are talking about. Who here is on the phones with other GM's? Who here is actually making these kinds of decisions?
My thoughts as well. What is Billups and his coaching staff saying? What are they looking for? Highly doubt this trade was made without any thought? Cronin didn't just get out of bed yesterday and say " Fuck it! I'm calling the Clippers and trading RoCo and Powell". Also there might be a reason this happened a number of days before the deadline. If you listened to Chauncey's interview before the game last night you heard him say some things that might make people think there is way more to it.
you have a link or anything to that interview? What’d he say? And yeah that trade would make zero sense without follow up moves. Might not happen next week but it’s coming.
Found this. So Billups was definitely involved. And I doubt the primary objective was to get Justise Winslow and Keon Johnson lolz
I honestly think this was more about just surrendering a bit to the situation. Hitting a reset button and going a new way while trying to keep that draft pick. This was Olshey's roster. Chauncy spoke numerous times about players needing to buy in. He also obviously had decided to go with Little over RoCo. Now put yourself in Robert Covington's shoes. Great guy. Was willing to give his all but the system and players around him were not really working. There is a family in the NBA. Billups knows this and has lived it. Sending RoCo to a team where at his age he can maybe have a chance to compete or even be moved again to another place to compete? I could see that. Now look at Powell. He was brought here and he made a decision to sign here. There have got to be some form of handshake type deal with him as well. Everyone here knows what the Blazers had was not working. They absolutely needed to get under the tax and find some relief by shedding salary for future moves. Billups has a right to build a team and system that works for him. I just can't see how they could build something better without tearing some of this system down. Teams are not taking CJ and his contract. Cronin has no choice here CJ is Guaranteed $100 million still. The way people are reacting to this seems a bit unrealistic at best.
The solution to a team with terrible defense, trade the only guard who plays defense. That sounds like a NBA championships contending team.
Could be but trying to rationalize it based on this trade alone is very hard to do. Everyone agreed we had too many undersized guards and everyone knows our defense was miserable. Norm was young, played hard nose defense, could score and was on a good contract locked up through his prime. If you were just going to give a played away then CJ is the obvious choice as the CJ/Dame experiment has run it's course.
Thought I’d feel better about this trade this morning but still don’t understand how we got ZERO assets out of this deal. I’m fine with trading Roco for scrubs but losing Powel in same deal and getting nothing back of value is absurd. This happened days before the deadline which is even more perplexing why not wait to see if someone gets desperate and throws in a 1st rounder or good prospect for Powel. Got to hope they did this deal in order to make another deal. If not this deal reaks of rookie GM and rookie coach making rookie mistake!
I guess the good part every GM in the league is calling us now, knowing they can take advantage of our GM
You sound like those dudes in the video that post on here. 3+ hours of pure meltdown. I thought the guy on the right side of the screen was gonna cry.
