q: Joe, do you expect all 3 rookies to play in summer league? a: turns pale, clears throat, nervously blurts out "..yes."
Comments like that are concerning to me because it means one of the following: Cronin is flat out lying - I hope this is the case Ownership/the front office are unable or unwilling to move up to the late 1st, early 2nd round to draft a guy they have a top 15 grade on.
I'll be honest with you... it sounds like they used some real guile in landing Rupert. I'm not trying to blow smoke because I'm still extremely disappointed that Joe hasn't done right by Dame but getting a hold of Rayan's agent and somehow getting him to call other teams and tell them that Rayan only wanted to play for us is smarter than trading up, if you can pull it off and it sounds like that's what they did.
You are reaching to knock the guy… he said 1st rd picks were in high demand right before that, so not easy to acquire.
Probably means nothing, but Joe didn't seem comfortable at all during his post draft availability or during this conference.
Yeah, I hear you on the agent asking other teams to not draft him, but if you have a top 15 grade on a guy in a deep draft and he's available in the late 1st, you should be making moves to get him. And we saw teams trade out of the 1st for 2nd round picks.
LOL.. knock who? I've been called a Cronin apologist not that long ago; I defend a lot of his moves and get plenty of push back for it. Boston traded their 1st for 3 second round picks. We have a lot of second round picks to trade
He knows he just forced out not only the best player in Blazers history but the guy that has created the strongest connection in team history maybe since some of our championship team with the fans and definitely the guy that has been most about this community. He is always a big timid but as I just pointed out, Dame is not talking to him, he is having his agent do all of the communicating. I think because of the quality of individual that Dame is he wants to tell Joe in person the things he has to say because they must be very serious... or maybe I'm wrong and Dame is just having too much fun in France to address his career and life... but I doubt that's it.
