Exclusive NBA Trade Deadline Thread 2024

Isn’t the Blazers looking for a win now move?because we have enough.

 

Philly interested in Brogdon?

 

Piston fans are happy with any changes. Detroit is soo bad, they can't possibly get any worse.

 

Brogdon is the type of player most of the teams in the league should have interest in. They could offer picks. The only player on their roster I could see us having interest in is KJ Martin.

 

We suppose we could take Embiid off their hands and throw in Jerami Grant for free

 

i doubt they will trade embiid for brogdon and grant unless embiid is damaged goods

 

Still, he would be quite the lotto ticket (not that kind of lotto) if he turns out to recover out of an injury phase like Joel did. Though I can't imagine Embiid's agent would want his fragile center going to play for the Portland "Abandon All Knees Ye Who Enter Here" Trail Blazers

 

Jovic would still have to beat out Jabari and probably Kris for playing time and I'm not sure he could but if the Heat want to give him up for a second rounder then...

 

Is slow Joe going to do anything or does he think we have everything we need to contend for mediocrity?

 

Reading this article I thought, "the thing that goes with everything else and has value is draft picks". I don't know if the teams out there are offering draft picks but we should be asking for them. I read an article that said we didn't want picks we want players but because we don't know which of our young guys, if any will pop we don't know what players at what positions with what skill sets we need. So the answer is draft picks. I honestly believe that at the very least Malcolm and Jerami have more value to contending teams than they do to us and that we could find the contending team(s) that wanted to pay that extra value in draft picks if we wanted to. I just don't know how ambitious Joe is and that scares me.

If we don't trade Jerami or Malcolm or both Joe can't even tell us why and that's the unsettling thing. He has to say that we didn't make a deal because we like the players we have too much. He has to say that to appease the players and he has to say that to keep their value high for the off season or next trade deadline or whenever. The scary thing is if that's the truth (us just liking our players too much) because this fucking roster doesn't make any sense.

I'm going to sleep and maybe when I wake up in 6 hours our team will be transformed into something that makes sense to me, or maybe that will happen by noon. I don't know but what I do know is that if nothing significant happens by noon, I'm not going to get a clear answer on why it didn't or what the plan for my team is and that'll be kinda shitty if it's our reality as Blazers fans tomorrow. I can be happy as a fan of our team even when we're losing 70% of our games but the pathway from losing over 50 games a season to winning over 50 games a season has to be at least outlined for me to stay happy during the losing.

 

Just two years ago people here were crapping on Cronin for making a deal too soon and not waiting until right before the trade deadline. When did the narrative change he waited too long?

Let's not contradict ourselves.

 

I don't have a problem with Joe right now besides the opinion that I have that he pushed Dame out and lied about it the entire time... I can get past that though because if Joe didn't see a path to winning a championship with Dame (like many many fans in this forum) then it was a shrewd move and we need a GM capable of being shrewd. No I don't have a problem with Joe today, if the roster looks the same tomorrow afternoon I'll have a problem with him.

 

I was gonna say, send him here now to never play again?

 

Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. I bumped the meltdown thread for you bro.

 

I want that unprotected Clippers pick.