The Blazers have the lowest scoring bench in the league and it’s insane how many people here think the starters are the major problem.
True, but it's hard for me to remember past the last game these days, and the starters ABSOLUTELY were the problem.
When your only rebuttal is to knock a typo from someone typing on phone in a sports forum, its obvious you have already conceded you are wrong.
Of course you sign him. Then you look for another "Grant" willing to come here and sign him also. Then you get a Powerful Power Forward and sign him as well.
I would be shocked if this deal wasn't agreed to 10 months ago. My understanding is these are the type of agreements you can't really back out on and still have a relationship with these agents for future deals.
$70 million... 17 million? No 70 million. 17 million? No 70 million with a D. 7D million. All i gots to do is stay alive for the next 3 days and get there to sign the papers momma.
Sure, Dame’s shot was off most of the night and other guys were laying bricks too. That’s going to happen occasionally to every team. I’d be willing to bet, but too lazy to check, that the Blazers “big 3” of Dame, Grant and Simons are near the top of the league in average PPG when all 3 are playing.
Grant is exactly the type of long athletic player I've been begging the Blazers to get for the last 10-15 years. We need more of those players, not fewer. While the league was shifting to players like Grant, Olshey went small. How has that worked out?
Is he any bigger than Harkless? Or Aminu? He's not more athletic. (He does have a jump shot, which they didn't, but you didn't say that.)
And when neither of those happens, you have the same play-in team you had before and you're stuck in no-man's land again, with no shot at a franchise player in the draft.
There's something to be said for getting injuries out of the way in the first half of the season and having your franchise player rested going into the second half so you can be playing your best ball come playoff time...this is a season where several teams could steal a chip. It's why I think Joe makes a move at the deadline...Dame could do some damage in the playoffs this season healthy for a change. Somebody remind me of which draft pick is owning the league right now? The draft is a crapshoot ...last year's dude is out for the season. Zion isn't MVP yet either.
