Second rounders?

So... if we were never planning on taking anybody, why wait till the last minute to offload them and settle for cash? Was the plan to hope somebody else fell in love with a prospect and offered the moon? And then OKC saw through us and said "you'll take pocket change and like it"?

Not a good look. Why should we believe that any future second rounders are worth jack if this is how you fuck up a second round?

 

Joe is splurging on donuts for his staff tomorrow I guess and a case of Polydent for Jody

 

Isiaiah Crawford to the Kings FUCK

 

Whay the hell? PA's estate has billions and billions, are they really this fukkin cheap?

 

Money to get HCP to post here has to come from somewhere.

 

Yep, we need a change of ownership badly!

 

No

 

The Blazers worked out 50+ draft prospects. If Mike S. didn't see anyone after pick 7 that would improve the roster. Then the rumors that this is was the worst draft class in NBA history, must be true.

 

well nailed that one! Consider me a draft guru or maybe I have inside connections or maybe it just made sense

 

I demand the Blazers use some of the money they got to compensate me for my wasted time caring about this second round.

 

This is a good reason to trade current no. 2s for future ones...to pad future trades. But instead, Cronin sold them.

 

Didn't he get three for one of them??? Do not get me wrong I'm still scratching my head about everything Joe has done since he took over.

 

Hold on, did we sell 40 to the suns who then got 2 2nds from the heat for it? Is that correct?

 

I don’t blame Joe at all, he didn’t sell those picks because he wanted to. Why would any GM sell picks instead of getting future picks for them unless ownership has tied his hands. What’s really going on, are we anywhere close to being sold? What is a realistic timeline in anyone’s opinion of the Blazers being sold?

 

Does anyone know the ansswer to this? Because if that's what happened, that would be gross negligence on Cronin's part.

 

Pathetic that this franchise just sells multiple second round picks for cash while other teams are flipping them for assets or spending cash for assets.

I don't understand the Blazers fans that continue to support Jody or claim she's not cheap.

Our shit ownership is a black cloud over this team bigger than any crappy executive, coach, or player this franchise has ever had.

 

I do not think it is, says the player is still with the Suns. All the shuffling was confusing.

 

Not a 1st rounder! We're talking about 2nd rounder. Not a 1st rounder; not the 1st rounder that I go out there and die for every draft like it's my last, not the draft , we're talking about 2nd rounder, man.

 

I’m not defending Jody on this selling 2nd round picks, but I think I have a couple of reasoned responses. The first being, Portland might have tried trading the one pick but couldn’t find a partner. I sense they probably had tunnel vision on a player, he was selected prior and they didn’t have a dance partner so they just sold to whoever and moved along. Possibly didn’t prepare for all scenarios. Also, I am pretty sure Portland is full up on end of bench players needing development. Murray and Rupert for sure. Walker and Scoot need development too. There just isn’t much room there. Management made the decision they like the players they are developing currently over what was available. Finally, we don’t know if Portland has the framework of a deal or two worked out and ready to execute that will send players out and in. Now if you could rack up second rounders and not have them count against your 15 man roster and put them on the Remix, that would be phenomenal. But they only get three and most second rounders want guaranteed money. So a whole myriad of factors were in play.