Glad Pritchard traded for Bayless. Nice to have a GM who trades for players like Roy, Aldridge. Bayless, Fernandez and Batum.
like i said... KPees a great gm if youre the nets or twolves.... but when you have your core... he blows. and if i was offered gay, butler or wallace... i would trade bayless in a heartbeat. one good game doesn't mean shit. and i will tell you now... hes not even close to mo williams. somebody made a silly statement about roy being lebron and bayless being mo. stop please.
You're right Mo williams has posted a very average PER of around 16 this year while Jerryd's is about 20.5. I'm glad you brought that up.
Your savvy impresses us all. I love the upside of Rudy Gay...from 2006. Today? Not so much. I'd prefer not to trade Bayless for a mediocrity who's about to head into free agency. I actually do like Butler and Wallace as players, but both are heading toward their late primes and I think starting guard alongside Roy is a much bigger need for Portland than a small forward, since Batum will be back from injury. I'm not in favour of making moves to try to "save this season." No trade will make this year's team a title contender. A dynamic Bayless could very well make next year's team a title contender, if Oden and Batum are fully healthy.
if oden and batum are healthy... thats like living in LA and owning a ski resort.... "if it snows we will be fine"
im sorry... not making the playoffs is a step back... not a tiny one but a monster one. we need a trade now
You consider Batum an injury-prone player? And if you think Oden is no longer worth waiting for, then there's no point trading for a small forward anyway. There's no small forward (who's name isn't LeBron James) that makes this team a title contender without Oden.
news flash pal.... we aint winning a title with aldridge at PF regardless. Ive realized that. did you hear barkley? "Imagine if they had a low post threat" "yah they would be scary" said kenny oden never will be that, LA will never be that, etc
I'm not your pal. I consider myself a well-wisher...in that I don't wish you any specific harm. Even if we had Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Dwight Howard in the same lineup with Aldridge? Aldridge is that bad a mojo? Well, if Charles and Kenny said it. It is impressive insight. Here's another one to blow your mind: "Imagine if Portland scored more and gave up less points!" "Yeah, they would be scary!" "Etc?" You decided not to point out that Roy will never be that, Blake will never be that, Bayless will never be that, Mills will never be that, etc?
You ever think that Maybe Shit happens? I mean I would think you would as it seems to be the pretty reliable result of your typing. Was it a huge step back when the Spurs lost David Robinson for a full season and ended up the worst team in the league? It's bullshit to say that a season lost to injuries should be considered a step back, if anything I think it's a huge stride forward. Our healthy players are learning how to play through diversity, without sacrificing a title window season should an injury pop up then. Bayless is getting his PT finally and now we will have a great idea of what he can do for us without having to gamble on an important season. As sad as it sounds we will land another solid asset in the draft, whether we trade it or keep it. Instead you are so focused on the negative side of things that you forget that the team doesn't have the luxury to think anything but positive.
excuses above.... the KP clones are out in force we already have settled for no playoffs. sorry but if roy and LA are so good... the 8th seed should be ours at worst. rudy should be back by mid January and if bayless is soooooo good... playoffs should be a no brainer. be fair.
...and excuses below. Silliness in between. Reality has a Pritchard bias. Yeah, losing half the team's rotation seems to drop expectations a bit. That's totally a Portland thing, though. Or else you're taking your ball and going home? Life ain't fair, son. It's a brutal series of punches to the gut until you die. How are the Bills doing?
Well what the Fuck do you expect the team to do? Trade our healthy assets without sacrificing future pieces and get back players that will all of a sudden give us a better shot of making the playoffs? Why the spittin hell do you think Blake is worth? Miller? Webster? Nobody in the league gives a shit about those guys. Look at GS Sure Anthony Randolph is on the Block but they want a player of similar caliber to Rudy and more to trade him.
in what way have the blazers settled for no playoffs? i mean, last year portland conceded that they weren't going to make the playoffs by not making a trade but for whatever reason the nba decided to force them to play in the playoffs anyway. who's to say that won't happen again this season?
the thing about a trade is; there have to be two or more willing partners. let's look at a different sport, in the NFL draft this past year the Raiders took Darius Heyword Bey and got blasted for not trading down. the problem was, no one in that draft wanted to trade up. i'm all for blasting the pick but don't say they should have traded down if you don't know someone was willing to trade up. which brings us to miller, who really wants this guy right now? he had us and really no one else chasing him in the offseason. philly was interested for a one year deal, as was NY but i doubt either are interested now that he's signed for next year and that's 7 million in cap space they can't throw at free agents this offseason. i'd love to see him traded, as i don't think the fit is right here, but there has to be another team and right now i just don't see that other team out there.
