Game Thread 2022-23 Game #49 - BLAZERS VS RAPTORS - JANUARY 28, 2023 - SATURDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

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  1. KingSpeed

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    But my dream has a CHANCE of happening and we can increase that chance by tanking. Your dream of trading for a star and winning a title has NO CHANCE in my opinion.
     
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    Right now, we have a 4.5% chance of getting Wemby. If we properly tank, we can get that to 10.5%. Right now, I’d say we have 0% chance of winning a title. I prefer to focus on the greater odds of winning Wemby.
     
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    Check the source bro.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Cronin's dream team got completely bullied twice by a bigger, stronger Raptors team this season. I don't think the Blazers interim GM has any concept of basketball other then reducing payroll and avoiding tax penalties.
     
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    Blazers missed 7 three pointers in a row after finally making the game respectable. Shooting from distance was off all night, but it still didn't stop the Blazers from going right back to busting out the 3 ball.
     
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    What this isn't Cronin's dream team lol. He knows the roster isn't where it needs to be.
     
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    Eubanks was a special kind of bad this game
     
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    Shae a +5 in an 18 points loss. Played only 19 minutes, just saying.
    Walker could have gotten more than 5min with how shit Eubanks and Watford were on defense
     
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    So you want to tank two years in a row? Why not just tank right from the start of the season and lose every game? I’m sure all Blazer fans would be delighted.
     
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    That’s not my dream. You must not be reading my posts on that topic. But on the subject of “chances,” you yourself admit we only have a 10% chance of getting Wemby, so that’s a total shot in the dark.
     
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    Maybe we're naive, but I don't get it. Sharpe does not look like any kind of a liability on either end of the floor. We need length and D right? Play the guy more FFS.
    And, it was glaringly obvious we need front court length with the Bosnian Baby out, so why not play Badji or Starvin' Marvin? (and way more Jabari) It's not like this game looked like anything but a loss half way through the 1st Q anyway. This refusal to coach with imagination is so fucking frustrating.
     
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    Man. Just throw some salt in the wound.
     
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    Depends on the year. If you have that talent this year you are probably a contender for sure.
     
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    Half at 2 and half the team is at 3.
     
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    We need to trade Simons for a legit starting forward. That alone would do so much to change this team. We. Dont. Need.two.chuckers.
     
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    yeah, sure...Cronin should be able to dismantle a shitty, unbalanced roster and rebuild it into a contender in 11 months....which seems to be what many expected. He started out in a deep deep hole that took the previous GM 7 years to dig; he really needed to put on a cape and leap out of the hole in a single bound. Massive failure that he wasn't superGMan, right?

    and I'm not letting Cronin completely off the hook either. He knew that the biggest issue the Blazers had, other than a talent deficit, was lack of size and length. And he had a draft pick, the 10.5M MLE and the 4.1M BAE to address those issues. With that in mind he spent 8.2M of the 10.5M for a 6'2 guard who has ended up missing half the season. How much help was that 6'2 last night against the mob of 6'8-6'10 guys Toronto throws on the floor?

    as for payroll costs and tax avoidance, yeah there's that. But I think it's abundantly clear that from the moment he got the interim GM label he's been operating under instructions from Seattle. I'd say that Olshey sold Jody & the Vulcans (pop band?) on his ability to build a contender if just given time. And that after Seattle saw the disaster that the roster last year was without a healthy Dame, they decided to pull the plug (thankfully) on Olshey and dismantle his losing roster. And that there was no reason to pay further tax for a mediocre team. It may be a cart before the horse thing now. Prior to Cronin there was willingness to speculate in tax with the possibility of making a contender. Now it's probably no tax until there is a contender
     
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