Nice article on Blazers Edge this morning Well, it appears that someone has opened the Blazer oven door when the cake was baking, and it has fallen flat The article prompts me to ask you what your favorite "What if" scenario would be for the Blazers? While the Sam Bowie era with no injuries is intersting to contemplate, or drafting Jordan, or keeping Moses Malone My fave would be: "What if we had Sabonis in his prime and injury free for the most part?" I think that would of totally been awesome
KP lacks testicular fortitude to do anything. When he's not drafting college/euro players he's a very mediocre GM at best. He hasn't proved himself outside of the NBA draft. Mediocre signings, not trading a gold mine in RLEC because he batten downed the hatches and rode it out.
In order to gain anything from a trade, you have to give up something. Unless you are the Boston Celtics or the LA Lakers who get everything handed to them on a silver platter. Then you can just give up a couple of scrubs and a draft pick and get a top tier front line player.
At this point Rudy may be this team's most valuable trade piece. I know Dave talks about Rudy being one of the potential laden future players, but with he and Roy occupying the same spot might it be past due to just admit that he doesn't have the handles or defensive chops to play the point guard spot and Roy doesn't have the size to move to the small forward to make room for Rudy? I like him, but I just don't see how he fits here long term. Put him together with Blake and Travis' expiring contracts and you offer can offer a team salary relief and a good young player with lots of untapped potential. To me that seems like the only logical option at this point (assuming of course that Blake and Travis are not in your longterm plans ... assuming of course that KP even has longterm plans at this point).
So...the castle just burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp (sorry, Monty Python reference)....and BE's brilliant plan is "stay the course!"
"For one thing, what are you salvaging?" MY thoughts as well. If you can make a deal that addresses a longer term need, go for it...otherwise, take our lumps this year.
Ditto...and it's time for some folks around here to realize that KP doesn't have much left to work with in pulling off a big-time trade. Are we really so naive as to expect a broken Outlaw and a slumping Steve Blake is going to get us a starting-caliber small forward? I'm betting we just right it out with 9 players until Pendergraph comes back around the first of the year. At most, I'd expect something along the lines of picking up a warm body with our remaining $1.4 mil in cap space...probably at the expense of cutting Mills loose.
If the idea is to stabilize things this year and continue to look into the future, cutting Juwan Howard probably makes more sense if Pendergraph indeed comes back in January.
I would really like to see Bayless get some serious playing time. I think he can be Monta Ellis-esque. We may end up with a better draft position!! lol... I'd give up anything for John Wall. But alas, it probably won't happen. The only minor chance is if Utah gets that pick (because they have NY's unconditional first) and NY gets the #1. But they wouldn't trade with a division rival for anything less than one of the big 3 plus talent and so on. Oh well, one can dream, right? I don't know why i'm thinking about this... But Oden is just by far my favorite player... so i'm sad. Anyway, what a bitter sweet weekend.
How do you think that was going to end? Badly I suspect. Regardless, the past is the past, let it lie.
meh, would have been fine. he would have had a DUI that would have gotten dismissed. yeah, i'm moving ahead. would be helpful right now though.
