My first thought, too. Holiday is terribly underappreciated. I've always thought he would be the perfect PG for US teams playing internationally. If he was a couple years older I would love to have him coming off the bench and teaching Scoot the ropes, especially on the defensive end. Now, some of those Heat offerings look a little more enticing if it's for Holiday instead of Dame.
somebody start a welcome Ayton thread. Billups HAS to work on this guy and get him going. Physically, he is like "lab-built". Light a fire under him CB!
HOLY SHIT FAMS. Milwaukee is a lock for the East next year. They get Dame and KEEP MIDDLETON? I'm liking what Portland get back. Pieces for now and the future. I'd trade Jrue and get younger real fast. I am damn excited for next year, people. The only thing else I want is Ant traded for another big man or a wing. Scoot/Sharpe backcourt. Grant/Ayton front court. Very excited for the future.
Is it weird that I dont hate Dame as much now because he's going to Milwaukee instead of Miami? Like Im still annoyed he tried to strongarm us, but im not as annoyed because maybe it didnt work? I dunno, im in my feelings so I'm working through it.
@Rastapopoulos my bad for my snarky comment man. I was out of line. This thread is blowing up and I cant find your response to do it right, so ima tag you. Cheers!
If they want scoot to be the starter at pg then I do see another trade with jrue going somewhere else. But I wouldn't be mad if they keep him either especially he hell premeter defense type of guard. Ayton I like since college so to me it's a good trade to me. The guys that was since out except for Dame wasn't doing for me.
Yeah, I think this is a solid B to B- trade for Cronin. He had to maneuver around a lot of mines but all things considered this is a pretty good haul. And we fucked Miami and their entitled (but never shows up to games) fan base!
I kinda love this trade in that Dame gets a ring on a team I can gladly root for, next to one of my other favorite players and Miami is blocked from winning for all of Butler's prime. That last part is truly glorious as is trolling Heat fans today. Hard to put a price on that but I think 3 FRP's is about right.
It's not that he's unappreciated, it's that he's 34 years old and we're on the hook for him for $70MM over the next two years.
What are we feeling about our team going forward? I can finally get excited going into next season, not gonna be contenders but it's Blazer basketball, nothing better
It'll be super interesting how Billups connects with him. Im so fucking thrilled to not have Nurk here anymore. I wore on him years ago.
Exactly. I can cheer for Dame. I wouldnt have been able to at all if he was in Miami. But Milwuakee? Theres some solidarity with them. Love it all the way around. And the trade, commiserate with Dames huge fucking money, is good.
