I take it you are against trying to build a winner around Dame? I don't love Grant. However, I would be surprised if there are more than 2 players from this draft who are more productive in than Grant will be in the next two seasons. If we feel we're getting a future star with the #9 pick, then Grant shouldn't be on the table. If not, we're talking a future role player vs a current one. I could go either way.
I think Dame wants Grant on the Blazers. So if you want to keep building around Dame, You have to do what makes Dame happy. No matter if the fans approve or not. Kinda like how LeBron wanted Westbrook.
That's the worry. Dame wanted CJ around for forever. Paul was going to dismiss Terry after the Pelicans series, but Dame wanted to keep him. Players should not be GMing.
I think most people are discounting Jerami Grant's defense. He'd be the best perimeter and 1-on-1 defender on the team. Watch these highlights and tell me who else on the team could make these plays. Nassir Little perhaps? Don't we need at least one more player like that?
Most of those seem to either be transition plays or recoveries after he had been beaten or picked off on the perimeter. Honestly not the greatest indicator of the kind of defense I'm really looking for out of a forward we might acquire with a lottery pick.
I'm a Grant fan however, dude suffered a torn ligament to the thumb on his dominant hand and hasn't been shooting very well since he returned. If he's expected to be good going forward health wise he'd be a nice piece to put beside Dame in a win now scenario, but I wouldn't want to be left holding an expensive bag of S. STOMP
Timeline for what, to be a play in team? Trading our best young draft assets in nearly a decade for Grant isn't going to get the Blazers anywhere close to contending. I agree with the OP; if its an allstar talent maybe there is an argument it is worth the risk of youth. However, the shitty Detroit Pistons have won more games without Grant than with him. I'm not sure Grant is even worth his current salary, much less the huge max contract he wants, plus you want to give up a lottery pick? That strategy or roster building and terrible talent accumulation basically guarantees this Blazers team will be farther away from contending then if they do no trades at all. Dame's timeline doesn't matter when the roster needs multiple move, and likely multiple years, to acquire talent in order to win. The answer to the problem of little winning talent on Dame's timeline, is certainly not to lose talent in bad trades. Maybe the Blazers won't contend if they keep their lottery picks. However; they certainly won't contend by giving lottery picks away for aging veterans with limitations to their games on huge max contracts.
By almost every defensive metric, grant is either average or below average. I think he's a theoretical 3&d wing more than that guy in reality. I wanna trade that second pick, but for someone better than JG.
If anything, that provides a case for exactly WHY we should trade the pick for Jerami Grant. Go back and look at that draft. Most of those teams (if not all) would’ve been better off trading the pick for a player of Jerami Grants caliber. Now that said… I don’t think we should do it, at all. If Jerami Grant is the best you can do, it’s better to roll the dice and try and get lucky in the draft
13-14 I might consider for Grant. Personally I’d rather roll the dice and find try and find the next Giannis. I might be lower on Grant (and his willingness to go back to a 4th option) role than others.
Feel like there might be better options available come draft night, not sold on Grant. Remember how Covington was supposed to be a game changer on defense and that was very hot and cold. Get the same vibe about Grant….
