Rumor: We are offering Bayless

I don't know. After his disaster in Vegas, Bayless has circled the bowl and is slowly floating out to sea.

 

Has KP ever said any of his players are bad? Come on the guy is a GM, his job is to polish a turd and trade it for a better turd. Sadly the best turd polishers are forum posters, they can take just about any player and make him into a hall of fame player before they have even played a minute in the NBA.

 

How is it a disaster in Vegas? Talk about stretching it. The fact is many of players completely sucked, and it effected the performance of all the players. Guys that can't make baskets and who drop passes make for a real ugly game. Nobody excelled in this years summer league to the point I said "Wow they will be a great player". Not on the Blazers. Not on other teams. The summer league was a chance for some guys to work on their game, and a chance for others to try to get an invite to a camp. The closest was Cunningham, who showed he has a shot at breaking into the rotation IMO.

If you quit trying to make Bayless something that he is not, he has a chance for success. That type of PG is the type that in a few years would be a Billups/Mo Williams scoring type PG. He may or may not be as good as those guys. His knack is scoring. But even if he ends up 3/4 of good, that is better than Blake by a long shot. But if you are going to expect him to be a Paul/Williams/Nash, you are setting him up for failure, and to be honest, those guards wouldn't work out here because the ball can only have one handler at at time.

 

Unless KP thinks that Petari is going to be better.

 

I was just having this thought, Bayless is like Juan Dixon without the range. He can finish a better, but overall he is pretty much a tweener.

 

Your soccer fan avatar is classy, by the way.

 

I'm so in favor of moving Bayless. I'm not in favor of moving him for most past-prime players though.

Oh, and Jrue Holiday was signed to a new contract, so I believe he can't be moved for about 28 days or so.

 

This^^^^^^

 

I would look to Memphis and dangle Outlaw/Bayless for Conley/filler

 

Or Bayless, Outlaw and a pick for Gay?

 

Meh. Our biggest need is a PG.

After the All-Star break Conley was finally breaking out and looking worthy of his #4 slot.

 

I don't think Pritchard overvalues Blake. Exhibit A is the fact that Pritchard actually TRADED him once. How much do you value a guy before you trade him?

Blake is what he is. A good shooter who doesn't make (many) obvious errors. I don't think Pritchard has any illusions that Blake is anything more than what he is...a solid average player. If it were easy to acquire a better point guard, he would. Unfortunately, point guard is the 2nd most valuable position and a hard one to get a great player at. I believe that we've tried to get Hinrich in the past and we've allegedly talked to Andre Miller very recently. So if Pritchard thinks Blake is so amazing, why would we be looking at those guys at all and why would he ever have traded him years back?

And as for the idea that Pritchard overvalues his players...his players got us 54 wins last season. Yet we've tried to sign Turkoglu and Milsap...neither of whom are 'his' players. If he overvalued 'his' guys, why would we try to acquire anybody else?

 

HAHAHAHAHA!!

Bayless laid an enormous egg in Vegas. He wasn't a rookie and was supposedly working on his "PG" game for an entire year- and he looked very poor.

I realize you don't like facts and are now a days just trailing after me like a dog in heat, but that's just the way it is.

Maybe try stalking someone else for a change. [edited by author as being too thruthful]

 

You know the season's only been over for a couple of months right?

 

Mike Barrett has brought up tons of times that it was Steve Patterson that traded Blake for Magloire, without KP's approval. KP was apparently staunchly against it, and fought as hard as possible to bring Blake back to POR as a free agent.

 

No thanks.

 

I do this yesterday. I would go as far as saying I'm pretty sure the Bucks would do it.

 

Yeah, but he's been working on becoming a PG for a full year. His PG skills are worse now than they were last summer. Also, if you read any of my other posts on the matter, you will note I also give Bayless some sugar.

 

But just how big is the need?

Blake is certainly an average PG. How bad is that? We just don't have a capable back up PG. Just about any PG with some experience is an upgrade in depth. That's where my concern is- not with Blake, but the fact we have no back up at all.