I don't think they'd give us 7 picks. No way. Realistically they need some of that capital to try to bring in more help. Dame/Bridges/Simmons ain't enough.
That would be ironic. Trading him back to the same team who traded us the pick that got him so they can win a championship and we can pound sand. Better deal than Miami's.
Yeah I just said they have up to that many. I would think that since they would already be giving us two firsts from this year they'd probably only want to give up three or four future firsts.
I've no problem with your wish list Torey...I just don't agree with the Cronin-Lillard narrative and that's fine. When Dame said he didn't want to play with kids we didn't have the number 3 pick and Scoot Henderson is really far from any 19 year old point guards we've seen in a long time...he's been playing with men and handling running an offense for two years..Kris is Ant's age...not a kid. I believe Joe, Chauncey and Dame are all on the same page and I don't think teams wanted to trade stars to Portland because they didn't want Dame happy..they all want Dame. I'm holding out until preseason to see our roster and I'll give Chauncey half a season to show he can coach this kind of talent. I too hope it all works out well. I believe they do want to build around Dame and it just started with a couple of young studs in the draft.
We're on the same page about the larger issue, but I'm not following the question about a hypothetical conversation. Was this reported or more of a connect-the-dots assumption you're making?
Did they even take anyone we would want? I’d like the cap relief and the future picks so we can let Schmitz cook.
You think we drafted a young stud PG in the draft and Dame is going to be cool with that? You think Joe thought that Dame would be cool with that? I guess we'll see but the fact that Dame has had time to be on IG live twice playing around for ten minutes but hasn't had time to check in with Joe for ten minutes and has his agent in constant contact with them makes me think he won't be around for the preseason or until the trade deadline. Dame is going to want to get started with his new season from training camp if in fact he wants to move on.
I like both of their picks Noah Clowney who is an athletic, super long 6'10" forward and Dariq Whitehead a sharp shooting 6'7" wing.
they wouldn't. The most the Blazers could pry away is probably in the range of 3 first's and maybe a swap, although I don't think swaps have much value. Maybe at the outside 4 first's although I'm sure Brooklyn will want to put protections on some of the picks, especially the ones 6 and 7 years out we just saw a draft process where Blazer fans had fantasies of Portland landing some huge score for #3 and Ant. And it turns out the value placed on Portland assets by other teams was miles away from the value we assigned those assets so now, it seems, people are back at it, imagining all kinds of godfather "hauls" for Dame while also imagining there will be a dozen teams falling over themselves to trade for him. There might be 3 or 4 teams, 5 at most. I mean, Boston just shot their way on Porzingis so they are almost certainly out of the Dame market. Philly has nothing. Miami's offer would be crap. It's kind of narrowing down
yes I do...I think we got a sparkplug 6 man of the year with Scoot next season and he'll finish a lot of games with Dame and take the pounding in the paint thapare himt'll extend Dame's career moving forward...Dame will be able to be a sniper and Scoot can take the beating when he's in the trees. In the end, winning solves all these problems. Dame is on vacation in France with his family...his agent is paid to handle the phone this time of year and he just had a long talk with Joe Tuesday....life isn't about the sports media all the time.
I will repeat myself: Dame saying “ do this or else” hurt the chances for a deal. Not too smart imho. Say nothing ever. Keep your friends close and enemies closer.
I hope you're right. I hope we didn't do wrong by Dame. If he stays, I will happily make a video admitting I was wrong. Just seems off.
Lillard deserves to go to the best team possible, after trusting a franchise that somehow brainstormed the idea that Drew Eubanks could be a starting Center in the NBA.
Probably we won’t ever know all the facts but sheesh Dame and Wemby are dominating the nba media. Jokic who??
So Dame gets on IG live two times after the draft and says nothing... but hasn't reached out to Cronin one time. Come on! Tell me that's not sending a message?
One last comment: it’s time for Chauncey to be under the gun for once. What can he do to make this a middle seed team if Dame stays. Shit we know will give like 30-5-5 not to mention the clutch moments. Lets see what Billups can bring to the table and earn his keep.
Dame's perspective: Short term, that's good. Long term, he's better off staying here. Go in there nxt year with roster you mentioned and not as bright future
