There so many teams in the West trying to win right now. DAL, DEN, OKC, MINN + LAL, LAC, SAC, PHX, GST In the East it’s BOS + IND, NY, PHIL, MIA, ORL … Trade Season during the draft! Portland has to go all-in with YOUTH. I accept next year is tanktastic … but I’m also accepting that the Blazers are lottery bound in 2026 as well. Ant, Grant, Brogdon, and Matisse will do well on their next teams. This is the way to rebuild.
I think the thing that people on here and fans of our team in general are missing is that the last two seasons have been really inorganic tanks. We've been babying injuries that guys would usually play through and sitting our best players the last quarter or more of the season. That shit sucks to watch. A team with Malcolm Brogdon, Jerami Grant, Deandre Ayton, Anfernee Simons and Matisse Thybull with a young feisty bench should have won right around 35 games but instead chose to lose all but 21. It will be exciting to see a real committed youth rebuild even if it results in around the same wins because the young guys will be able to give us full effort and some stretches of really exciting ball... they'll also get better as the season progresses making the team more and more watchable instead of what we've had the last two seasons of watching our team get less and less watchable as the season drags on and on.
I still can't buy this Clingsn bullshit. It's hilarious how much mocks are pumping this dude's value now after Givony. The notion of Sarr being available at 3 is very tough for me to believe, but if even remotely true, we need to make all efforts to move up for him.
#7 in this draft is basically worth #17 in a normal draft - would much rather roll the dice on an unprotected pick many years out.
So by this logic, taking Salaun at 7 would be the same as taking another young pick from Trail Blazers history in Jermaine Oneil who was a high school aged 17th pick in the draft!
Totally agree - yeah I want to see our vets traded for youth/picks/lesser valued vets - then we give 100% effort to win. Might even be able to improve the value of the new vets (and potentially reflip). Would be way more enjoyable to watch NBA quality guys playing all year and not these G league castoff irrelevant scrubs.
Could be about right. Also in the prior quoted post I discussed trading away #7 for a future pick when we had acquired #5.
I hope your right and the Blazers have no Clingan interest. I fear its another of these cases of the Blazers plans being leaked way prior.
Probably bullshit but blazers are one of only two teams that have worked him out so far in the top 10
Often I wonder if Schmitz has done his due diligence and decided Clingan is the only player worth a top 7 pick. Who knows.
Good Lord. I thought the idea of Clingan was bad. This would surpass that in terms of my disappointment that would result.
Barring any trading up I think the picks for Portland are Salaun/ Williams at 7 and Holland/ Eddy at 14.
Two of my favorite YouTube uploaders when I'm not wanting to watch full games. https://youtube.com/@hardwoodhoopscentral?si=OTssZTaVGFrhWo_P https://youtube.com/@cashiggy3219?si=zTmGUEhlXyqvgdiJ *Especially like these cut ups which include non box score stuff.
So you prefer to take your chances on the Lakers sucking in 7 years instead of taking a chance on Salaun or Williams this year..... because people think the draft at 7 is weak? That might help us in 2033 or 2034, but certainly not in 2026 or 2027. That is crazy.
