after trading away Dame, going for lottery gold is the only logical course. Building a roster that would hover around .500 with play-in as the ceiling would be the stupid path knowing what you know about the Blazers, will Portland choose the logical course, or will they walk the stupid path?
Im sorry your joy came off of 10 years of negativity that you'll never get back. I'm sorry for you on that. My point still holds true.
Dame is 33 and with that albatross contract its time to get what value we can and build around a promising core of Shae and Scoot.
My heart is broken. This is the worst i've felt since my wife of 26 years, had an affair , and then said "she didn't love me anymore". Almost 10 years later to the date. 2 more torpedoes to the bow.
Nah, not that long. Could be a quicker turn around than we expect. Could make the playoffs next year. The NBA is really deep now and with how many young players we have I feel safe saying that one of them will turn into an All-Star level player. Could be more than one… Losing Dame hurts, but we could look back on this as the catalyst which set us up for the future. Could get insane value for Dame. Already having a lot of young promising players. We could actually be scary in 3 years.
Yeah CJ said he didn't see Dame sticking around or at least that was the quote in one of the two interviews and it was confirmed by Dame that him and CJ had talked about it the night before but Dame truly saw himself starting the season in a Blazers uniform.
The writing was on the wall all along. The best Neil or Cronin could ever surround him with is Jerami Grant which is pathetic Time to turn the page. Youth movement all the way. Strip the team of the old era and collect young cheap contracts and assets
We didn't pick a path. Damian Lillard forced us to choose a path. Should've picked a path TWO years ago when it was clear as fucking day Cronin couldn't do what Dame wanted. But, love the optimism... let the rebuild begin.
