Meeting between Dame and Cronin today

I agree. Get ready to dodge the critics.

 

Trading him straight up for Antoine Davis.

 

How about you go cry yourself a river.

Drama queen.

 

Perhaps you're right. Point noted.

 

Lmao, the truth hurts doesn’t it? That’s all you could have come back with? Better you didn’t reply at all lol

 

I have to disagree with your last paragraph. I think the monetary commitment to Dame was almost mandatory but I think it was probably done in concert with a commitment to put a winner around him (I understand that's just an assumption I'm making). If Joe did commit to putting a winner around Dame when they offered him that extension then I can see why Dame would feel the way he has been publicly stating he feels.

Besides Jerami every move that Joe has made has eventually become a move that looks like it's designed to benefit a youth rebuild. I don't blame Dame for having conditions to his commitment to the team. All commitments should have conditions to them... probably with the exception of loving your kids. Obviously all of us view this stuff through our own prism and I think that's alright.

 

Best post in this thread..........and it ain't even close.

Stop trying to create a way that makes Dame going somewhere else as....

1) his desire
2) Cronin's desire
3) better for the team
4) better for Dame
5) what Dame deserves
6) what fans might deserve

He has earned the respect to be treated specially. Period. Cronin is doing his best, with the hand he accepted coming in to the position.

Whether that meets one's own fan desires or not....doesn't mean dick.

 

No.

It would be like if someone said "do you want a chicken salad sandwhich" and I said "No. I don't want a chicken salad sandwhich. I want to eat at this restaurant but I don't want that sandwich. I don't have an appetite for chicken salad. If that's all you're serving, I won't be eating here."

 

I honestly have no idea who those people are.

 

I don't think Joe has the gumption to make Dame shit or get off the pot. I wouldn't classify that as recklessness, but maybe that's me.

 

There's a possibility Dame doesn't want to be traded because he doesn't want the scrutiny/pressure of being on a contender. If he joins the Heat let's say, there's expectation on him to be the one that puts them over the top. Dame is hero in Portland partly because he's been the underdog the whole time. The Blazers have never been favorites to win a championship so he's never had to face any real heat.

I don't necessarily believe this but it's something to consider.

 

And then two months later you're invited to a five star chicken salad sandwich restaurant while all the others are booked and you're starving.

 

That's one thing that I don't think Dame would care about even a little bit.

 

You are probably right about #3, but I would not be so sure about Murray. That chip can still be moved. (with Ant)

 

That's exactly what they'd want.

 

Technically, Scoot can still be moved too.

 

He cannot be traded for 30 days. So now your talking about after all his summer league either helps or hurts his trade value.

Would a trading partner have wanted Kris at #23? Maybe they had 10 other prospects rated higher. Its extremely unlikely picks are traded after the draft. We saw it when the #1 pick was traded for Allstar Kevin Love, very unique situation. I can't recall ever seeing it since.

I'd say out of all the Blazers players and future picks that Sharpe, Scoot, Kris, Rayan are the least likely to be traded and in that order.

 

30 days after July 6? Even if unsigned?