Good morning, portland, oregon!!!!

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  1. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    I love the smell of trade rumors in the morning!!

    Let's get it on! :ghoti:
     
  2. MrJayremmie

    MrJayremmie Well-Known Member

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    Devin Harris or Danny Granger!!!!

    Jeff Green, Rudy Gay, Caron Butler, Tayshaun Prince, Shane Battier, Iguodala, Young, Monta Ellis!!!

    Any of them i'm game for... :)
     
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    tlongII Legendary Poster

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    Bake It!
     
  4. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Be careful what you ask for, T.

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    Reep Well-Known Member

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    If you start baking a cake, and it doesn't look quite like what you had in mind, more baking may give you that black stuff on that poor girl's cookie sheet (See Chicago Bulls).
     
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    Yeah, but we have a better baker, top quality ingredients. Right now, we're just after some frosting. If we did nothing, we are still going to be contenders.
     
  7. Samuel

    Samuel James “Hollywood” Robinson

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    The Bulls had quality ingredients, they just didn't fit together.
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    No doubt.
     
  9. hasoos

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    Every team that is a contender "adds a piece" at some point. Look at all the teams that have been contending the last few years, and they have constantly made moves to try and 1 up each other, or to remain on top. Phoenix. San Antonio. Boston. LA. Dallas(Dallas mistake was trading too much). But you see the pattern. Think back to the days with Clyde and Porter. That team wasn't going to go anywhere until they got Buck Williams. They would have been good, but not contender good. Buck added that ingredient and it got rolling right away. I think the team is a lot like that right now. They need a piece or 2, and then they will be right up there with the elite. We just need to go get those pieces.
     
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    MARIS61 Real American

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    That smell is the sweet smell of a dynasty baking.
     
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    and outlaw and sergio are burned crumbs then
     
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    There isn't a single player in that photo that would even be one of our top 2 players.

    I am not against a trade, but I think using the Bulls as proof that we need to make a trade is pretty weak. Maybe it is my homerism coming out, but there really is no comparison between the talen on our team and that Bulls team.
     
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    BoBoBREWSKI BURP!

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    I hope tomorrow morning is more eventful as far as NBA trades go as today has been. zzzzzzzz.
     
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    tonight could be interesting too.... last time blazers made a major in season deal was a monday. sheed for sar and theo

    also...its only 1 45 in portland
     
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    Actually i think the Bulls serve as an example of not letting it bake and making big moves to early. Only 3 of them are still there from the original baby bulls squad. Trading away Chandler sure helped them out.
     
  16. Karl Malone's Elbows

    Karl Malone's Elbows Batum: once in a lifetime

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    What big move did Chicago make? They didn't, they still have all of their core, too much of their core actually. Tyson Chandler is barely notable.
     
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    Karl Malone's Elbows Batum: once in a lifetime

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    And where the hell is the trade already?! :p
     
  18. Samuel

    Samuel James “Hollywood” Robinson

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    Really? They've been perpetually rebuilding for years, and to what end? They're consumed with developing young talent. Maybe it's bad luck, maybe it's poor decision making (likely a combination of both), but here they are with several players to develop and not much of a team to speak of. Sure, they've traded away a few players and made a haphazard attempt to acquire cagey, accomplished vets (Ben Wallace), but on the whole, I think they're a bigger example of a team stuck in perpetual adolescence.
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    I would think that, for us, a trade would be made no later than today......if one is to be made. If it's true that KP has at least 3 (SF) offers to pore through and decide upon, I'm guessing the trading partners wouldn't want to wait until tomorrow or Thursday - the absolute 11th hour - to get things done.
     

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