Oh ye of little meltdown faith. Come on man you KNOW people are gonna melt down. At a bare minimum HCP is going to rage about how many threads there are and how uniformed and foolish non-insiders are, no doubt with a disdainful shake of the head. So really, you are going to be in for a shock with how many meltdowns there are. I think we might see meltdowns at a record setting pace. If we are somehow really good (Sharpe and/or Scoot explode and DeAndre has a renaissance season.) you will still see meltdowns. There just isn't any realistic scenario in which members of this forum aren't melting down unless your block list is a mile long.
Shaedon's benchings were bad last season. There were 14 games where Sharpe played less then 15m. Some of Shaedon's minutes in that limited action was garbage time cleanup. If Billups "forgets" to put Sharpe in competitive rotations this season... EVERY Blazer fan deserves a meltdown.
The kid needs to play. I am never going to be the one pulling for a team to tank, but now that they have tanked and picked up a couple players they need to follow through and play those players even if it means being a lotto team again.
After watching Dame drop 39 in his opener and Ice a victory in true Dame Time fashion I figured it’s time to bump this thread.
I think most of us absolutely knew it was going to play out like this. That is exactly why some of us are a little irritated at this point. Spend the fucking money and bring players here to win a fucking CHAMPIONSHIP. Quit Fucking running off the best players this team ever gets. It's pretty simple actually.
If you think they could not have spent their money better and gotten better returns for their players than they did over the course of time that dame was playing for Portland then I simply don't know how to respond to you?
Spent their money better!?!? Give me some examples. Neil was a moron but I don't think money had anything to do with it. He fucked up the Collins draft and he kept CJ too long, but again... money didn't mean shit. It was an inability to acquire players and that's not such an easy thing to do.
So you're upset at previous GM? Becauuuuse, we dont exactly have the goods to build just with cash and assets. We'd have to overpay for one player and then overpay for a 2nd one. We have seen no one comes here on min contracts to ring chase. And we had Dame. So why exactly are we blaming the current status? It was Olsheys doing, this was inevitable. There A) Has to be players that we can overpay (Do you want Harden?) and B) Has to be good to great role players available (We need A to happen first). Just confused as to why you're surprised and irritated about where we are at given the previous few years and the fallout of that coupled with the fact we're Portland and there arent enough elite level stars that'll just magically appear here. We're a mid-market in an undesirable location, we have to build through the draft. We have to essentially get lucky and have Damian Lillards drop in our laps and then its up to the GM to work around that (See: Olshey). So I dont understand why you're irritated about the inevitableness that we find ourselves in. This is the reality.
Neil was garbage. That's pretty much a fact. But I have been happy with what Joe has done, and I guess he's technically the one who "ran Dame off."
Neil thought Allen Crabbe and Meyers Leonard were the answers when EVERYONE else knew they weren't. Evan Turner was shocked he got a huge pay day. Olshey killed the current and future blazers. Joe is tasked with tearing it to the studs and making that lull of future blazer suckage last as short as possible. But we headed to this point because of Olshey, not because of Cronin.
I'm not exactly certain Joe had not made this decision well before it became apparent? Yes Olshey screwed the pooch. My posts are simply in response to watching a great player that was once a Blazer dominate again for another team. Since being a Blazer fan this has happened a number of times. Not to mention injuries and drafting players whom had red flags in their medical records. Then I watch teams throughout the NBA continually keep great players and make moves to build contending rosters. I get it- Right now the Blazers best moves are to build through the draft. There is no question there. They need to bring along the young guys and lose to win. This just sucks man. So then there is this movement that the NBA wants to add a couple teams. Presumably Seattle and Las Vegas. How long do you think it will be before one of if not both of those teams are contending? My bet is it certainly won't be as long as Lillard was here.
Yeah, I feel all of that as well. I think we all feel it and that's why it gets contentious. And it probably isn't helped knowing that Vulcan still has their finger on this team while Phil Knight is eager to buy...
I to want Knight to get the team, but at the same time, the reports of the price he wants to buy us for compared to what Jordan just got for selling the Hornets, kinda looks bad on Knight. If he really wants the team he needs to up his offer.
I can't believe the difference between $2 billion and $3 billion is much of a sticking point for Knight. If that's the value that's the value. Pro teams get a great return on investment. I don't think Knight would have any trouble coming up with $3 billion
