ESPN trad Well, that's the nature of taking a swing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not and sometimes it's somewhere in between and you need to adjust. Just ask Brooklyn how taking big swings works.
trading CJ will never be a disaster. He absolutely needed to be traded. More than anything else it was Olshey's idiot obsession with CJ that locked Portland in Purgatory for all those years. It's not the season without CJ that is costing Dame opportunity; it was the 8 seasons with him. I am not completely claiming addition by subtraction but Portland potentially received two firsts, one in the lottery, Josh Hart, and a 20M TPE for trading CJ. Yeah, the longshot bad luck of PG13 getting Covid cost Portland that lottery pick, but still, that was a good return for a player we all knew was covered with the warts we were all familiar with. He didn't get the MeJ nickname by accident you can go ahead and zoom out to the perspective you want which appears to be blaming Cronin for the current situation. He deserves a little of the blame for the contracts he gave out last summer, but the big share of the blame goes to ownership and his predecessor. and since you have been complaining so intensely about the Hart trade,could you tell me, with an example or two, what kind of return you expected compared to what was received.
So that's why we got better trading Josh Hart - he was stopping other players rebound. Maybe he was also stopping them hustle and play defense? Wow, what a selfish player - don't bogart the hustle, Josh!
A first rounder that is likely to convey and if it doesn't becomes 4 second rounders along with the chance to get a look at a young stud athlete that hasn't been able to put his game together yet, who if we like him we can make a qualifying offer on is a really nice return for Josh Hart... if you live in a vacuum but we do not. What in the actual fuck are we doing here?!? A lot of teams are getting way better and we are getting younger and presently worse all while telling Dame we're going to build a contender around him. Maybe things will make more sense in the coming hours but honestly it seems like the team is going to have to trade Dame in the summer for this whole thing to make sense... I don't want Dame to be traded ever but if that's not the end game then why are we doing what we're doing. I guess we could put together one helluva godfather offer on draft day. We will have Ant's and Nurk's salaries, we'll likely be able to draft with the Knicks and convey the rights to whoever that pick is which would allow us to offer our 2024, 26, 28 and 30 FRPs. Either that's the plan or our front office is trying to drive all Blazers fans out of their minds. Again, the next few hours might change all of this.
He was obviously also stopping other players from turning what should have been harder possessions against set offenses into fast breaks. It probably wasn't bad to trade Josh because the guy may have been honest with the front office and told them he didn't see himself here long term. How the return makes sense with building around Dame remains to be seen.
@Strenuus you do you. Sorry about last night. I don't really care how you address anyone in here as long as it's not abusive and you haven't been that. I just got bent out of shape because I see the value in the Hart trade but have a hard time fitting it into the context of the promise to build a contender around Dame. As I just posted elsewhere we may be punting until draft day where if the Knicks pick conveys we will have whoever we draft there and 4FRPs along with three swaps to try and do crazy shit right away. It is hard to see us punt when Dame is doing what he's doing but Cronin is the only one who knows what the alternative is.
I disagree. Im typically not a glass half empty like he is, but Nate brings alot to the table. if we were all emotionless robots, this forum would be boring as F.
We're all going to be worth nothing in the long run. The trick is getting value out of something when you have it. Nobody's managed that with Cam Reddish yet.
If someone wants to get butthurt because I made a joke at their expense, and then talk shit, I'm going to talk shit back.
