I'm fine with the Blazers moving forward with Simons starting in place of McCollum. No problem with that opinion whatsoever. I'm not fine with giving away Norm for nothing and getting scrubs for Roco both a week before the deadline offers were made. I'm not fine with coming away basically getting just Hart for CJ and Nance. Ideally the Blazers should've shopped for better returns of talent. All players were fine to trade. But they didn't have to be traded. The Blazers didn't have to trade the players to the players preferred destinations. The Blazers didn't have to hold out for this Ben Simmons cap space pipe dream that evaporated 2 days later. The Blazers needed to make good moves to increase their talent to contend. Instead they reduced their talent at the deadline. They got cap space flexibility when its nearly worthless. They didn't gain useful draft assets. It was an epic fail then, and has put the team in position to fail now. This is evident in the Blazers having the 3rd worst future roster rank in the NBA per ESPN even with Dame.
And what if the Blazers did make some noise next season? I'm fine with all of it. The players that were shipped out had so much "talent" they helped the Blazers get a 10-10 record to start the season with only 1 road victory. None of them will be missed.
Portland cannot trade the pick. They have to make the selection on draft night and then can trade the player. You can't trade your first-round pick two years in a row. So, in theory, there could be a deal in place, but it would not be announced until draft night at the earliest.
i mean these are just semantics. If there’s a deal lined up you’ll hear about it before the draft imo. Like when we traded for Roco and drafted for Houston.
then hell froze over. Ain't gonna happen as currently constructed. Curry > Dame Klay >>> Hart Wiggins >>> Nas Draymond >>>>> Winslow Looney < Nurkic Poole, GP2, Wiseman, Kuminga >>> Simons, Didi, Watford, Keon
The truth is that Cronin fucked up in February. If he didn't know that he fucked up before the Pelicans made the playoffs he definitely knew he did after. Now the guy has to make some combination of the 7th pick, the big TPE, EBEC, the 36th pick and the Bucks 2025 FRP into two starting forwards that fit better around Dame and Ant than any of the starting forward combos we put around Dame and CJ. There are ways for Cronin to pull that off but it won't be easy. GMs make bad deals and gamble and lose... Cronin just so happens to have already done both. GMs also come back from failures and make a bad situation much better. That's what I'm hoping for.
Agreed. If we aren't adding an all star, or 2 high level starters by trading the pick we should probably just keep it. That's the best chip we have available to improve and we need to maximize it. I don't care about attitudes or bullshit like that. We need some talent. Lots of it.
Correct. Happens all the time, deal could be reported as done even today, but the trade call is finalized with the league after the draft.
If sometimes no is true to your statement "Blazers cannot trade the pick"...... then your whole statement is false If deals couldn't be announced until official with the league there would be literally zero trades reported at the draft.
This. And yes, "cap space" in Portland is fool's gold. Only good for the front office. I can't think of a time when it has EVER transformed into a better squad on the court.
And even when we signed a good player in Andre Miller, our star player was a dickwad to him because of the fit.
I think Kenny Anderson was a free agent signing. Brian Grant was a really solid get. I also really loved Andre Miller. I can't think of a time though where we went out and got a really big name star though.
Thanks. Forgot to call into the World's Smartest Man. But I was responding about how the trade would already likely be known if agreed to. Learn to read, then post (famous S2 words, brah). So.... what are you babbling about? You should stick to your "Nurk can't be traded cuz he's a free agent schtick." At least you were 50% correct (he can't be traded, but he's not technically a free agent).
I don't get the hype on OG A? I know he's a decent player, but you'd think after 5 years in the league he'd be an all star if he's was as good as advertised in here?
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This headline implies the Pistons are the ones who have not agreed to the deal being offered by Portland. If so that's sick and Cronin should be fired for it. So much smoke with this rumor it either 1 Has some truth or 2 Is being epically pushed in the media, similar to Morey's BS.
