Can the Blazers effectively keep Dame Jrue Scoot Shae next 2 years?

Why complain about something later if we can complain now before it's a problem?

 

I agree there's nothing wrong with talking about it now....... assuming we don't talk about it every day for the next 15 months

 

Not much else to talk about until we see some results.

How does Scoot do?
How does Shae do?
How does Jrue do?

And then how is Dame's recovery going?

So I think this will be an ongoing conversation.

 

Isn't every player?

 

Amico = no

 

Which is so much better than having 3 guards who should be playing 24 minutes, but are forced to play more than they're ready for.

I think the biggest difference between now and 2 years ago is the rest of the roster had much bigger holes to fill and the argument could've been made then that having those 4 assets at guard wasn't optimal. Feels to me the forward situation is in a much better position now than it was two years ago.

 

Assume for the moment that Lillard returns to form albeit at age 36 in 2026. Also assume Jrue is still on the team and playing well at about starter minutes. These would be excellent outcomes. Now assume Sharpe and Scoot take a good-sized leap forward this coming season. Assume all 4 occur -- which is likely-ish, I suppose -- and then there will be a logjam at guard in the summer of 2026.

I do not want Shaedon Sharpe playing SF minutes if at all possible -- especially not with Dame, Scoot and Jrue getting most of the guard minutes in 2026-27; positional size is a good thing. Scoot's D will have to be a whole lot better by then for him to play alongside both Dame and Jrue (especially if it's for around 12-15 minutes with Dame ... Dame getting 30 leaves 18 for Scoot at PG with 12 or so at SG with Jrue at about 30 ... 6 minutes to others).

That's if good things happen for all 4 and all 4 are Blazers in a year. Otherwise, there's no minutes crunch because one of the young fellas or Jrue would be gone. Jrue has value to a contender. Young guys are tradable. Now, if Scoot is playing well and Dame is healthy, it does make for a couple years with Scoot and Dame playing some minutes together, which may be doable. Maybe. And certainly more of a logjam than if Scoot is moved and Shaedon is the young guy retained.

The upshot of these what-ifs and assumes, IMHO, is that there's no logjam now, nor do I expect there will be one in a year. It will work itself out, and Cronin will have some work to do.

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMdfrJyiFxY/?igsh=MXFkZHdiNTNsdzBwZQ==

looks like Shae is in Spain

 

When abundance and logjams, go to war against injuries, the title almost always goes to the injuries.

I hope that the Blazers are challenged in figuring out what to do with the wealth of starting guards in the future.

 

I like the mindset that say we should HOPE this becomes an issue next summer.

That mean Scoot developed well, Sharpe improved significantly, Jrue regained his form, and all 4 guys are healthy. Those would all be very good things

Any one of those doesn't happen and there is no issue with all these guys next season. I'm hoping that is the case - but if I had to bet unfortunately I'm estimating that's more likely to not be the case.

 

This sounds incredible

 

Lol. What are they offering?

 

I hate to say it, but players get hurt and then there isn’t a “logjam.” Having all 4 players healthy and playing great is probably a pipe dream and that is why depth is a good thing.

 

they could offer Vincent or Kleber + draft assets. It's the draft assets that could make the trade appealing to Portland

on the other hand, it sure looks like Cronin wants to push all of his chips into the playoff/play-in pot and a healthy Timelord can be a valuable chip. It's just seems that a healthy Timelord is fiction

 

The tweet was in reference to Holiday.

But I would trade RWIII for Kleber + Thiero.
I really like Thiero as a prospect...

 

Kind of depends on how deep the pockets of new ownership are and how willing they are to dip into the luxury tax

 

What is this in reference to?

Portland's new ownership?

Or Lakers? The Lakers are hard-capped at the first apron, and they are effectively at the hard-cap right now. They cannot take on any additional salary regardless of the owner's desires

 

I was referring to the thread title

 

Yeah the new CBA kind of makes owners willingness to spend more irrelevant than it's ever been. Luxury tax cash penalities are actually close to insignificant at the 1st apron. There are advantages to lower payroll but those are more about roster flexibility than cash savings. The 2nd apron has huge penalties that teams avoid regardless of owners wealth.

Deep pocketed owners do help with coaches, nice arenas, fancy practice facilities, etc.

Going forward it doesn't seem like owners wealth will impact money spent on the roster.