Game Thread 2022-23 Game #40 - BLAZERS VS MAGIC - JANUARY 10, 2023 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT)

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  1. blazerkor

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    He also said after those trades that this team is incomplete and he would be evaluating and looking to make moves around mid-season. Well it's around mid-season and on Sunday every player on the roster can be traded.
     
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    3 game home predictions against Cavs, Mavs, Mavs? 1-2 for me
     
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    Now we wait for the inevitable “I told you so” post from HCP
     
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    Well well well
     
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    I tried.
     
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    Cugel The epitome of mediocrity

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    I guess a pretty good case could be made that Cronin made bone-headed moves. Sure he is not done but, christ, I fail to see how he can do much at this point. IMHO he should be selling not buying.
     
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    He can say whatever he wants to say. It doesn't mean that it is true and it doesn't mean that it's logical or likely.

    He said he was going to build a winner around Dame. He made moves that (to some of us) clearly weren't going to be sufficient for anything other than a ~.500 team.

    The season is obviously still going, but so far it appears that Cronin doubters have been right at every turn (the only moves I've liked were on draft day) and I don't know why he'd suddenly be able to trade guys he signed to big contracts and make the team better. It's possible, of course, but it's not likely.
     
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    Magic were 0-7 in back to backs. I feel a total rebuild is the only way forward.
     
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    The clippers trade has come back to bite us badly.. we have no bench and gave up assets for nothing. Hell even the cj trade wasn’t that good, we could of used nance still.
     
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    Blazers 31-35 (89%) at the rim tonight.
     
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    3-0!
     
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    Cronin made the moves he had to...which is dismantle the idiot roster that Olshey had built while getting the Blazers under the tax line and out of repeater tax territory
     
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    I think he should be holding. Not giving up future assets for current improvements, but also not moving guys out now just to clear up past mistakes.

    We still have a chance to sneak into the playoffs and we can shoot our way into the second round. That would be a resounding success, at some level. It's not very probable, but it's possible.

    The team should have traded Dame before we gave him the massive extension. The team should not have traded for Grant. The team should not have given Simons as much money as it did. The team especially should not have wasted money on Payton. But Cronin made those moves, and trying to sell those pieces now would hurt whatever chances we have for more-than-lucky-above-mediocrity this year, and it wouldn't really probably help us much in the long run as we'd have to do a last year-level benchfest to get a good draft pick at this point.
     
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    I'm not calling you a liar, but did he say that? And if he did, what does that mean? Cronin does seem like the guy to come out and promise results. Most GM's won't say those types of things.

    I seem to recall when he was asked about a full rebuild or trying to win with Dame, he said Dame was the center piece of the franchise and wasn't going anywhere.
     
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    Blazers will come back and stun the league.
    Hottest team in the league over the next month.
     
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    Kind of nauseating watching the Clips/Mavs game and listening to Fratello rant and rave about how great Norman Powell has played for them this year.

    At least we got that amazing prospect Keon Johnson out of the deal
     
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    No Bamba, No Bol Bol.....that should have been 45-50. But no, have to keep jackin' up those '3's.
     
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    Again, he openly said that this is an incomplete roster when he was finished with our off season. He then said he would evaluate the guys that we have in Chauncey's system and then make moves around mid-season and in this off season.
     
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    This resolves the gas vs. electric stove debate. An electric oven just doesn't give me what I need after a game like this.
     
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    We'd be better off if he hadn't made any of those moves, I think. And if he had not been focused on being competitive in the near run, he could have made better moves for the future. He also would not have spent so much money on Dame and Simons and Payton.

    So blaming Olshey is a bit silly in my opinion.
     
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