Meeting between Dame and Cronin today

I knew that when I was typing it. I was just saying if I was Joe that's what I would need in this meeting. Who wants this bullshit? I wouldn't. Joe very obviously has an eye towards the future and I think life is a lot easier when your main focus professionally doesn't have to be divided by competing interests.

 

Joe doesn't have the gumption.

Happy?

 

Dame would counter that with...

"The Lakers took the risk of bringing AD to LA with LeBron, and despite his health, guess what? They've won a championship."

 

gumption = recklessness?

 

Agreed, the team needs to make other decisions and need to know if Dame is committed for next season. Resign Grant, whom to target with the MLE, etc. Do we have a spot for Ant or need to trade him? What about the assistant coaches - do we want win now ones or development guys?

Dame needs to commits to all of next year or just say he can't and he's fine with a trade. Ideally the sooner the better.

It is kind of ridiculous when the franchise has unconditionally committed another $211 million to him that his commitment back is so conditional. I don't like that, and I especially don't like that its played out so publicly. If him and Joe had private conversations then just announced when a decision was made that would be fine. This soap opera of will he won't he is kind of ridiculous.

 

I know your opinion of Joe but do you really think he hasn't gauged the value of the other assets individually?

 

Could you provide an example of who you are responding to or is this just delusional ramblings of an old man yelling at clouds?

 

"bunch" of assets, our only asset is simons

they have tried to trade nurk, it didnt happen, theyre not gonna trade scoot or sharpe (neither they should), the other two rookies have no value, what other assets are there (walker, eubanks, keon, little, watford, winslow lol), thybulle, grant & reddish are free agents, we have no picks to trade

 

He was only clear if you leave out all the other stuff he said that didn't fit that narrative at the same press conference and other media ops.

This is getting like someone asks you if your chicken salad sandwich was good, you answer "It was the worst chicken salad sandwich I ever had" ... and then when someone asks about your exchange, they recount how they asked if the sandwich was good and he said "It was."

Dios mio.

 

Lmao, go cry yourself a river and everyone that liked that post, he a far from shitting on Portland, he wants to win here.

Drama queens

 

We were sold on 23. We were sold on 5 seconds. We were sold on cap flexibility. We were sold on paying off Chicago to use future picks.

This isnt speculation. This is what Cronin has told us. And presumably told Dame.

 

FIFY

 

Glad you got that outta your system?

 

maybe theres hope if we can free our picks (not sure how that works, but thats the only hope)

with simons + picks + fillers, you can work, without it its not possible

 

Preach, and you notice it’s a certain bunch of the same people on here, 24/7.

 

Cronin said he told Dame that two days before the draft.

What did Cronin tell him when he convinced him to sit out the rest of the season?

What did he tell him at the end of the season?

What did he tell him after the lottery?

What did he tell him last year?

For all we know, he told him 2 days before the draft, "Yeah, I know what I told you before, but it's just not going to work out, so we're keeping the pick." While I admire the transparency, and even if it was the right thing to do, IF he told Dame that we are going to "push our chips all in this year", then you can't blame Dame for waffling ... because the organization is waffling on their promise / word / whatever you wanna call it towards Dame.

We will see what he has planned for free agency, but they've got to start taking some swings, as I don't believe they truly taken a single "swing" since they've said "Yeah, we're trying to win with Dame".

 

Yeah Simons likely has some value - Nurk might have no value or negative value. 3 and 23 were the big chips and those have been cashed.

Blazers don't have much else unless they want to give up future draft picks. That seems very stupid with the franchise on the edge of a rebuild.

 

Maybe he did maybe he didnt. Doesnt matter if he did given where we ended up after the draft, does it? He simply took BPA at every pick.

 

You remove Bill Walton from our history and you remove an NBA Title

You remove Damian Lillard from our history and you remove.... nothing? a WCF sweep?

Now tell me again who's the greatest Blazer ever